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Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943, Los
Angeles, California) is an United States|American
comedic actor and writer who began his career as a
child actor in 1950s film|movies (The Robe) and
television (Jack Benny|The Jack Benny Program).
Shearer played Eddie Haskell in the pilot for the
TV series Leave It to Beaver.

Shearer was later a member of Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles radio comedy group The
Credibility Gap, 1968–1974, and regular on
Saturday Night Live in the 1979–1980 and
1984-1985 seasons. Shearer co-created, co-wrote
and co-starred in Rob Reiner's 1984 film This Is
Spinal Tap with Michael McKean and Christopher
Guest; the three of them also collaborated on the
acclaimed 2003 spoof A Mighty Wind, which was
written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by
Guest.  

Shearer's television work also includes two
specials for Cinemax, "It's Just TV", and "This
Week Indoors" (co-created with Merrill Markoe) and
"The Magic of Live".  He directed the entire
six-episode HBO series, "The History of White
People in America", co-created by Martin Mull and
Allen Rucker, as well as the two-hour feature
finale of the series, "Portrait of a White
Marriage".  He also co-wrote and directed Paul
Shaffer's fantasy special for HBO, "Viva Shaf
Vegas" (with Shaffer and Tom Leopold).  His first
theatrical feature, which he wrote and directed,
was "Teddy Bears' Picnic", a dark comedy loosely
based on the workings of Bohemian Grove, the
secret retreat of the elite.

Shearer has two books published, "Man Bites Town"
(a collection of his Los Angeles Times Magazine
columns) and "It's the Stupidity, Stupid". 

Shearer is probably best-known for his prolific
voiceover work on The Simpsons (1989 to date),
where he does the voices of Mr. Burns, Waylon
Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Timothy Lovejoy,
Kent Brockman  and Principal Seymour Skinner,
among others. He was one of three Simpsons
vocalists to guest star on the show Friends; the
other two were Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.

Since 1983 Shearer has been the host of the public
radio comedy/music program Le Show on NPR. He is
the regular announcer for TV Land and, since
mid-2004, for KIRO-AM radio in Seattle. Since May
2005 he's been a contributing blogger at The
Huffington Post.

== Filmography ==

*Chicken Little (2005) (filming) 
*A Mighty Wind (2003) 
*Teddy Bears' Picnic (2002) 
*Haunted Castle (2001) 
*Out There (2001) 
*Haiku Tunnel (2001) 
*Catching Up with Marty DiBergi (2000) (V)
*Edwurd Fudwupper Fibbed Big (2000) 
*Dick (1999) 
*Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999) 
*Encounter in the Thrid Dimension (1999) 
*Edtv (1999) 
*Small Soldiers (1998) (voice) 
*The Truman Show (1998) 
*Almost Heroes (1998) 
*Godzilla (1998) 
*My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) 
*State of the Union: Undressed (1996) (TV) 
*Blazing Dragons (1996) (VG)  
*The Show Formerly Known as the Martin Short Show
(1995) (TV) 
*Sliders (1995) (TV) (uncredited)  
*The News Hole (1995) TV Series 
*Speechless (1994)  
*Little Giants (1994) 
*I'll Do Anything (1994) 
*Wayne's World 2 (1993) 
*Comic Relief: Baseball Relief '93 (1993) (TV) 
*A League of Their Own (1992) 
*Spinal Tap: Break Like the Wind - The Videos
(1992) (V) (as Derek Smalls) 
*The Fisher King (1991) 
*Blood and Concrete (1991) 
*Pure Luck (1991)  
*Oscar (1991 movie)|Oscar (1991/I) 
*Sunday Best (1991) TV Series 
*Hometown Boy Makes Good (1990) (TV) 
*The Simpsons (1989 - present) 
*My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988) 
*Plain Clothes (1988) 
*Portrait of a White Marriage (1988) 
*Spaceballs (1987) (uncredited)  
*Spitting Image: The Ronnie and Nancy Show (1987)
(TV) 
*Flicks (1987) (voice) 
*The History of White People in America: Volume II
(1986) (TV) 
*Spitting Image: Down and Out in the White House
(1986) (TV) 
*Viva Shaf Vegas (1986) (TV) 
*The History of White People in America (1985)
(TV) 
*This Is Spinal Tap (1984) 
*The Right Stuff (1983) 
*Million Dollar Infield (1982) (TV) 
*"Likely Stories, Vol. 1" (1981) TV Series 
*One Trick Pony (1980) 
*Loose Shoes (1980) 
*Animalympics (1980) 
*"Saturday Night Live" (1979-1980, 1984-1985)
*The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) 
*The T.V. Show (1979) (TV) 
*Real Life (1979) 
*Cracking Up (1977) 
*American Raspberry (1977) 
*Serpico: The Deadly Game (1976) (TV) 
*The Jack Benny Program (1955) (guest voice) TV
Series - Harry Beaver
*The Jack Benny Program (1953) (guest voice) TV
Series - Jack as a Child
*The Robe (1953) (uncredited) 
*Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
(uncredited)

== External links ==
*http://www.harryshearer.com/ HarryShearer.com
*Imdb name|id=0790434|name=Harry Shearer