Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film "Real Life" (1979) with Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mull's television series "Fernwood 2 Night". Shearer was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" between 1979 and 1980, and 1984 and 1985. Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the film "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984), a satirical rockumentary, which became a hit.
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Harry Shearer | Introduction
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Shearer was born December 23, 1943, in Los Angeles, the son of Dora Warren (née Kohn; d. 2008), a bookkeeper, and Mack Shearer. His parents were Jewish emigrants from Austria and Poland. Starting when Shearer was four years old, he had a piano teacher whose daughter worked as a child actress. The piano teacher later decided to make a career change and become a children's agent, since she knew people in the business through her daughter's work. The teacher asked Shearer's parents for permission to take him to an audition. Several months later, she called Shearer's parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show "The Jack Benny Program".
Harry Shearer | Early life
Harry Julius Shearer (born December 23, 1943) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, radio host, director and producer. Born in Los Angeles, California, Shearer began his career as a child actor. From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group. Following the breakup of the group, Shearer co-wrote the film "Real Life" (1979) with Albert Brooks and worked as a writer on Martin Mull's television series "Fernwood 2 Night". Shearer was a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" between 1979 and 1980, and 1984 and 1985. Shearer co-created, co-wrote and co-starred in the film "This Is Spinal Tap" (1984), a satirical rockumentary, which became a hit.
Harry Shearer | Introduction
Shearer is known for his work as a voice actor on "The Simpsons". Matt Groening, the creator of the show, was a fan of Shearer's work, while Shearer was a fan of a column Groening used to write. Shearer was asked if he wanted to be in the series, but he was initially reluctant because he thought the recording sessions would be too much trouble. He felt voice acting was "not a lot of fun" because traditionally, voice actors record their parts separately. He was told that the actors would record their lines together and after three calls, executive producer James L.
Harry Shearer | "The Simpsons"
He left teaching following "disagreements with the administration". From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group that included David Lander, Richard Beebe and Michael McKean. The group consisted of "a bunch of newsmen" at KRLA 1110, "the number two station" in Los Angeles. They wanted to do more than just straight news, so they hired comedians who were talented vocalists. Shearer heard about it from a friend so he brought over a tape to the station and nervously gave it to the receptionist. He found out he was hired that same day.
Harry Shearer | Early life
Shearer received the role when he was seven years old. He described Jack Benny as "very warm and approachable ... He was a guy who dug the idea of other people on the show getting laughs, which sort of spoiled me for other people in comedy." Shearer said in an interview that one person who "took him under his wing" and was one of his best friends during his early days in show business was voice actor Mel Blanc, who voiced many animated characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Barney Rubble. Shearer made his film debut in the film "Abbott and Costello Go to Mars" (1953), in which he had a small part, and appeared in "The Robe" (also 1953).
Harry Shearer | Early life
Shearer was the last of the six regular voice actors from "The Simpsons" to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. His win came for the season 25 episode "Four Regrettings and a Funeral".
Harry Shearer | Awards
... I wouldn't do them if they weren't easy." Shearer modeled Mr. Burns's voice on the two actors Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan. Shearer says that Burns is the most difficult character for him to voice because it is rough on his vocal cords and he often needs to drink tea and honey to soothe his voice. He describes Burns as his favorite character, saying he "like[s] Mr. Burns because he is pure evil. A lot of evil people make the mistake of diluting it. Never adulterate your evil." Shearer is also the voice of Burns' assistant Smithers, and is able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take.
Harry Shearer | "The Simpsons"
Shearer’s early musical experiences were as a singer; the majority of his works are for the voice or voices, with a later emphasis on opera. With his first wife, pianist Barbara Shearer (1936–2005), Shearer's performances included art songs, some of which were his own. He studied at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D. in 1972, and at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria where he received diplomas in concert singing and opera. He taught voice in Special Programs at the University of California at Berkeley. Among his composition teachers were Fred Lerdahl, Seymour Shifrin, Andrew Imbrie and Max Deutsch, with whom he studied in Paris.
Allen Shearer | Life
Martin Short said Shearer "wanted to be creative and Dick [Ebersol] wanted something else. ... I think he felt his voice wasn't getting represented on the show. When he wouldn't get that chance, it made him very upset."
Harry Shearer | "Saturday Night Live"
In 1989, he joined the cast of the animated sitcom "The Simpsons"; he provides voices for characters including Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Principal Skinner, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Kent Brockman, Dr. Hibbert and more. Shearer has appeared in films including "The Truman Show" (1998) and "A Mighty Wind" (2003), and has directed two, "Teddy Bears' Picnic" (2002) and "The Big Uneasy" (2010). Since 1983, Shearer has been the host of the public radio comedy/music program "Le Show", incorporating satire, music, and sketch comedy. He has written three books. Shearer has won a Primetime Emmy Award and has received several other Emmy and Grammy Award nominations.
Harry Shearer | Introduction
Douglas Graham Shearer (November 17, 1899 – January 5, 1971) was a Canadian American pioneering sound designer and recording director who played a key role in the advancement of sound technology for motion pictures. He won seven Academy Awards for his work. In 2008, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame.
Douglas Shearer | Introduction
In the mid-1970s, he started working with Rob Reiner on a pilot for ABC. The show, which starred Christopher Guest, Tom Leopold and McKean, was not picked up.
Harry Shearer | Early life
Harry Landers (born Harry Sorokin; September 3, 1921 – September 10, 2017) was an American character actor. He was born in New York City.
Harry Landers | Introduction
Allen Raymond Shearer (born October 5, 1943 in Seattle, Washington) is an American composer and baritone.
Allen Shearer | Introduction
He has been married to singer-songwriter Judith Owen since 1993. He became an artist in residence at Loyola University, New Orleans in 2013.
Harry Shearer | Introduction
In 2006 Shearer appeared with Brian Hayes in four episodes of the BBC Radio 4 sitcom "Not Today, Thank You", playing Nostrils, a man so ugly he cannot stand to be in his own presence. He was originally scheduled to appear in all six episodes but had to withdraw from recording two due to a problem with his work permit. On June 19, 2008, it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.
Harry Shearer | "Le Show" and radio work
Shearer was born in Westmount, Quebec, to a prominent family, but his family fell on hard times after his father's business failed, which ultimately led to his parents' separation. Douglas remained with his father Andrew in Montreal while his two younger sisters, Norma Shearer (the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer star) and Athole Shearer (also a Hollywood actress and one-time wife of director Howard Hawks), moved to the United States—to New York City—with their mother, Edith. Unable to afford a university education, Douglas Shearer left school and began working in a variety of jobs. In 1924, he traveled to Hollywood, California, to visit his mother and sisters, who had moved there a few years earlier.
Douglas Shearer | Early life and career
For this episode, Harry Shearer won his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.
Four Regrettings and a Funeral | Introduction
However, he says this lasted approximately a month, and he joined the staff of the "Daily Bruin", UCLA's school newspaper, during his first year. He was editor of the college humor magazine ("Satyr"), including the June 1964 parody "Preyboy". He also worked as a newscaster at KRLA, a top 40 radio station in Pasadena, during this period. According to Shearer, after graduating, he had "a very serious agenda going on, and it was 'Stay Out of the Draft'." He attended graduate school at Harvard University for one year and worked at the state legislature in Sacramento. In 1967 and 1968, he was a high school teacher, teaching English and social studies.
Harry Shearer | Early life
Throughout his childhood and teenage years he worked in television, film, and radio. In 1957, Shearer played the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series "Leave It to Beaver". After the filming, Shearer's parents said they did not want him to be a regular in a series. Instead they wanted him to just do occasional work so that he could have a normal childhood. Shearer and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network. Shearer attended UCLA as a political science major in the early 1960s and decided to quit show business to become a "serious person".
Harry Shearer | Early life
Bowden was born in Los Angeles in 1907. At the age of 20 he studied at the Otis Art Institute and also privately under J. Francis Smith. In 1927 or 1928 he traveled to New York and took a room in a boarding house in the Lincoln Square neighborhood of Manhattan, an area that had been dubbed a "New Bohemia" when aspiring artists, writers, and practitioners of the performing arts congregated there during the first two decades of the 20th century. During 1928 and 1929 he studied at the National Academy of Design and the Art Students League. Bowden subsequently returned to Los Angeles and took a job in an advertising agency.
Harry Bowden | Early life and training
Harry Goz (June 23, 1932 – September 6, 2003) was an American musical theater actor and voice actor.
Harry Goz | Introduction
Harry Hemsley was born in 1877 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England. He started acting at age eight, when his father, a scenic artist had him perform on stage. In the 1890s, he was a cartoonist for the British comics magazine "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday". He performed as bass-baritone singer in the minstrel show "White Coons". In 1905, Hemsley started acting in the music hall stage show "The Follies" with his familiar act of impersonating children's voices. He did this by covering his mouth with a book, newspaper or just his hand to signal a transition. His imitations were so spot-on that later, when he went on radio, many listeners were fooled.
Harry Hemsley | Youth
He started out as an extra and was largely uncredited. He studied at the Actors' Laboratory Theatre, known for its left-wing political affiliation.
Harry Landers | Early life and career
He decided to remain there too, finding a job at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where Norma was already under contract. At MGM, working as an assistant in the studio's camera department, he pursued an interest in adding sound to film. That interest led to a career that spanned more than four decades in motion pictures. "What I knew about sound you could have put in a nutshell," he said. "Overnight I became the one-man sound department. They ordered me to do the job; they didn't give it to me. And probably they wouldn't have given it to me except that they were desperate." Douglas became a significant inventor and innovator in sound technology, with one of his many contributions being a system he developed that eliminated unwanted background noise.
Douglas Shearer | Early life and career
Lauter was born in White Plains, New York. He worked as a model for a professional photographer and was a rodeo rider before moving into acting. Lauter came from an entertainment-oriented family, with his father and grandfather having been part of The Flying Lauters trapeze act.
Harry Lauter | Early years
Barry Shear (March 23, 1923 in New York City – June 13, 1979 in Los Angeles) was an American film director and producer.
Barry Shear | Introduction
They lived in North Hollywood and then moved to Studio City. He was sales manager for Shearcut Tool Company of Encino, when he ran for the City Council in 1963, and in 1966 he was a director in the Surety National Bank of the same San Fernando Valley community. He was also a partner in James Associates, representatives of electronic manufacturers.
James B. Potter Jr. | Biography
Becoming a professional voice actor, he obtained a minor role in a radio adaptation of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" performed by George K. Arthur's International Group Players for the Hollywood Playhouse. They were impressed with his talent, and gave him a job as a permanent understudy. He supplemented this income as a screen extra, usually as a stunt rider in B movies, and also worked as a freelance dialogue coach for expat aristocrats in Hollywood. Through a friendship with George Oppenheimer he was able to get work screen-writing as a ghost-writer. Immersing himself in the Hollywood gay scene, he claimed to have had brief flings with Willy Wakewell, Philip Ahn, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, and Richard Cromwell.
Harry Hay | Stanford University and the Communist Party: 1929 to 1938
Bruder was born in 1930 in Bronx, New York. He studied at High School of Music and Art and Cooper Union School of Art in New York City. He studied singing privately during this period and those experiences later influenced his writings and lectures on early opera singers. He graduated from Cooper Union in 1951.
Harold Bruder | Personal background
Afterwards he was approached by a producer who offered him work in animation. It was a role in a Hanna-Barbera animation. From there he made the transition from a serious stage actor to voice. He has also done work on "Harry & the Hendersons".
Patrick Pinney | Background
The three core members of the band Spinal Tap—David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls and Nigel Tufnel—were portrayed by McKean, Shearer and Guest respectively. The three actors play their musical instruments and speak with mock English accents throughout the film. There was no script, although there was a written breakdown of most of the scenes, and many of the lines were ad-libbed. It was filmed in 25 days. Shearer said in an interview that "The animating impulse was to do rock 'n' roll right. The four of us had been around rock 'n' roll and we were just amazed by how relentlessly the movies got it wrong.
Harry Shearer | Spinal Tap
Shear was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. He attended the University of Pittsburgh. He distinguished himself with the Pitt Glee Club where he led a special side ensemble called Wooden Music, which used acoustic instruments, in a foreshadowing of his "Unplugged" concept. One of his noted songs of the time, which he performed in concerts with the glee club, was "Always in the Morning". He left Pitt after three years in 1973, and headed to Los Angeles to pursue a music career. Shear is married to singer-songwriter Pal Shazar.
Jules Shear | Life and early career
Voice work as a teenager in audio drama led him to drama school where he trained in stage management and audio production and on graduation was encouraged to become a freelance voice-over artist. He joined theatrical producers John Hewer, Mike Hall and Gervase Farjeon in the West End of London working for five years as announcer, production manager, stage manager, and audiovisual director on stage productions, variety shows, cabarets, films, international conferences and product launches in London, the rest of the UK and much of Western Europe. In that time he also worked part-time as a personal assistant to the British bandleader Henry Hall.
Robin Houston | Early career
Mostly, they were just a bunch of kids who got along together and didn't give much thought to their racial identity."
Ted Shearer | Advertising and comic-strip career
Hislop studied speech and drama at the Banff School of Fine Arts, graduating in 1949. He subsequently worked as an actor, and ran an interior design company with his partner, Ron Shearer.
George Hislop | Early career
Harry Bartell (November 28, 1913 – February 26, 2004) was an American actor and announcer in radio, television and film. With his rather youthful sounding voice, Bartell was one of the busiest West Coast character actors from the early 1940s until the end of network radio drama in the 1960s. He served in the United States Army.
Harry Bartell | Introduction
Harlan Saperstein is an American voice actor. He has worked as a television narrator of several documentaries on"E! True Hollywood Story" and History Channel.
Harlan Saperstein | Introduction
Carey was born in the Saugus neighborhood of Santa Clarita, California, the son of actor Harry Carey (1878–1947) and actress Olive Carey (1896–1988). As a child, he learned to speak Navajo. His maternal grandfather was vaudeville entertainer George Fuller Golden. As a boy, he was nicknamed "Dobe", short for adobe, because of the color of his hair. He grew up on his parents' ranch in Santa Clarita; they had horses and cattle. His family ranch was later turned into a historic park by the Los Angeles County and was named Tesoro Adobe Park.
Harry Carey Jr. | Early life
Meader began his career in entertainment as a singer and piano player. Upon his return from Germany, he began a comedy act in New York City, where he discovered his skill at impersonating Kennedy. With his New England accent naturally close to Kennedy's familiar, and often parodied, Harvard accent, he needed to adjust his voice only slightly to sound like the President. Meader also mastered the facial expressions that allowed him to bear a passable resemblance to Kennedy.
Vaughn Meader | Career
Cornell MacNeil was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota to a dentist and a singer. He was interested in opera from a young age, but suffered from severe asthma, which also contributed to his rejection from World War II. He then took on a wartime job as a lathe operator, after which, on his mother's advice, began his vocal studies. Among his teachers were Friedrich Schorr and Dick Marzollo. Before the end of the war, he sang and made announcements for the Radio City Music Hall Glee Club, for whose audience he announced the surrenders of the German and the Japanese at the end of the war.
Cornell MacNeil | Life and career
Harold Douglas (born Harold Cohen; September 1, 1924 – March 7, 2014) was an American voice actor best known for performing thousands of voice-overs for movie trailers, television commercials, and stage plays over the course of a six-decade career.
Hal Douglas | Introduction
O'Connell was born in Long Island, New York and raised in Los Angeles, California. At 18, he became a projectionist at 20th Century Fox Studios, where his mother was a secretary for the head of the sound department. Subsequently, failing the trade union examination for the job, he became a Los Angeles County firefighter for a year. At the behest of his concerned mother, alarmed at his gaunt and charred appearance following a brush fire in Sylmar, Los Angeles, he obtained a job as a machine-room operator at Warner Hollywood Studios, also known as Samuel Goldwyn Studios in 1978, where he worked on films including "Grease" (1978).
Kevin O'Connell (sound mixer) | Early life and career
He never left the music industry. Schaefer once performed a musical piece for Eleanor Roosevelt and sang at the United Nations's anniversary in 1955. He moved to Florida in the 1990s and continued to teach voice lessons to students until his death.
Hal Schaefer | Introduction
He said that "the only fun thing about it was having written it. It was lonely, I had no deal for it and it took six years to do. It was a profoundly disturbing act of self-discipline."
Harry Shearer | Further career
One of these clients was a Hollywood producer down from New York City who invited Woolman look him up for a job if he was ever in California. Woolman was a long-time Hollywood stuntman and special effects innovator, doubling for such notables as Clark Gable, Charles Laughton, William Bendix, and John Carradine. He also appeared in occasional roles such as the motorcycle police officer in the Abbott & Costello comedy, "The Time of Their Lives".
Harry Woolman | Introduction
David de Keyser (born 22 August 1927) is an English actor and voice artist
David de Keyser | Introduction
In the episode "Bart's Inner Child", Harry Shearer said "wow" in the voice of Otto, which was then used when Otto was seen jumping on a trampoline. Ned Flanders had been meant to be just a neighbor that Homer was jealous of, but because Shearer used "such a sweet voice" for him, Flanders was broadened to become a Christian and a sweet guy that someone would prefer to live next to over Homer. Dr. Marvin Monroe's voice was based on psychiatrist David Viscott. Monroe has been largely retired since the seventh season barring a few cameo appearances because voicing the character strained Shearer's throat.
Harry Shearer | "The Simpsons"
Ron Halder (born July 13, 1953) is a Canadian actor and voice actor.
Ron Halder | Introduction
Harry Pilcer (April 29, 1885January 14, 1961) was an American actor, dancer, choreographer, and lyricist.
Harry Pilcer | Introduction
Harry Giese (2 March 1903 – 20 January 1991) was a German theatre and voice actor born in Magdeburg, Province of Saxony. He is best known for providing voiceovers on German newsreels during the Second World War especially Die Deutsche Wochenschau which was shown weekly in cinemas. The newsreel presented the latest news from war time fronts using film from cameramen working with the Wehrmacht.
Harry Giese | Introduction
Huell Burnley Howser (October 18, 1945 – January 7, 2013) was an American television personality, actor, producer, writer, singer, and voice artist, best known for hosting, producing, and writing "California's Gold", his human interest show produced by KCET in Los Angeles for California PBS stations. The archive of his video chronicles offers an enhanced understanding of the history, culture, and people of California. He also voiced the Backson in "Winnie the Pooh" (2011).
Huell Howser | Introduction
Thomas Halperin Wyner (born 16 June 1947) is a voice actor, producer, director, and writer.
Tom Wyner | Introduction
His other film appearances include "The Right Stuff" (1983), "The Fisher King" (1991), "The Truman Show" (1998), "Small Soldiers" (also 1998), and "EdTV" (1999). He also directed and appeared in the television program "Portrait of a White Marriage" (1988), a sequel to "The History of White People in America". Shearer has also worked as a columnist for the "Los Angeles Times Magazine", but decided that it "became such a waste of time to bother with it." His columns have also been published in "Slate" and "Newsweek". Since May 2005 he has been a contributing blogger at "The Huffington Post". Shearer has written three books.
Harry Shearer | Further career
Landers was born on September 3, 1921, in New York City, to parents Jacob and Rose (née Landers) Sorokin, Jewish immigrants from Russia. He was the third-oldest out of seven children. Jacob abandoned the family early on in Harry's life. Landers' education came at Public School No. 202 and Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn. During World War II, Landers served in the United States Merchant Marine. In the mid-1940s, he began his career as a worker at the Warner Bros. studio in California. An encounter with actress Bette Davis led to a membership of Screen Actors Guild and an acting career.
Harry Landers | Early life and career
It premiered at the U.S. Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado and starred Kelsey Grammer and John Goodman. Shearer, Guest and McKean starred in the folk music mockumentary "A Mighty Wind" (2003), portraying a band called The Folksmen. The film was written by Guest and Eugene Levy, and directed by Guest. Shearer had a major role in the Guest-directed parody of Oscar politicking "For Your Consideration" released in 2006. He played Victor Allan Miller, a veteran actor who is convinced that he is going to be nominated for an Academy Award. He also appeared as a news anchor in "Godzilla" (1998) with fellow "The Simpsons" cast members Hank Azaria and Nancy Cartwright.
Harry Shearer | Further career
A. Purves "Purv" Pullen (February 2, 1909 – October 18, 1992), later known by the stage name Dr. Horatio Q. Birdbath (or simply Dr. Birdbath), was a voice actor for radio, film, television, and records. He was known for mimicking the sounds of animals and birds.
Purv Pullen | Introduction
Clotworthy's career as a voice actor began when he was fifteen. "My father was a producer of radio commercials and from an early age I would accompany him to recording sessions. I met some of the finest voice talent (Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Mel Blanc, June Foray etc.) and they inspired me."
Robert Clotworthy | Early career
Mr. Burns was originally voiced by actor Christopher Collins in the episodes "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire", "Homer's Odyssey", and "The Telltale Head". He was soon replaced by Harry Shearer because Sam Simon found Collins "difficult to work with". Additionally, Christopher Collins died on June 12, 1994. Shearer has voiced the character ever since. He modeled the voice on Lionel Barrymore and Ronald Reagan. Shearer is also the voice of Smithers and is able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take. Shearer said that Mr. Burns is the most difficult character for him to voice because it is rough on his vocal cords and he often needs to drink tea and honey to soothe his voice.
Mr. Burns | Voice
Harry Heard was the oldest of three children born to Thomas Heard and Harriett (née Ashdown). At age 16 he was working as a painter for his father, but then established himself as a magician, daredevil, and escapologist, sometimes with the spelling Harry Herd, as "The world’s youngest Handcuff King," an English version of Harry Houdini, although it's uncertain whether he met Houdini or saw him perform.
Harry Lorraine (English actor) | Early life
After completing singing lessons, he along with his wife used to hosted musical salons.
Kenneth Reiner | Introduction
Harry Lang was born on December 29, 1894 in New York City, New York. He made his film debut in the 1929 Vitaphone short, "Who's Who?", in which he and partner Bernice Haley performed an early version of Who's on First? He provided vocal effects for Tom in the "Tom and Jerry" cartoons from 1940 to 1943, and occasionally did the speaking voice for Tom from 1944 to 1953. In 1946, he was cast as Pancho in "The Cisco Kid" radio series, opposite Jack Mather in the title role.
Harry E. Lang | Personal life and career
Jon Serl was born as Josef Searls in 1894 in Olean, New York. He was the fifth child of seven. He grew up in a vaudevillian theatrical family. This contributed to his early artistic talents, including performance, acting, dancing, singing and as a female impersonator. Jon Serl was one of his several pseudonyms. In his young adult days he worked as a peripatetic female impersonator performer known as "Slats". He was called Jerry Palmer when the silent film era ended in the late 1920s with the first Sound film. He was a voiceover artist for actors whose voices did not fit well in 'talkies'.
Jon Serl | Early life
You're taking something that an audience has built eight years or nine years of investment in and just tossed it in the trash can for no good reason, for a story we've done before with other characters. It's so arbitrary and gratuitous, and it's disrespectful to the audience." Due to scheduling and availability conflicts, Shearer decided not to participate in "The Simpsons Ride", which opened in 2008, so none of his characters have vocal parts and many do not appear in the ride at all. In a 2010 interview on "The Howard Stern Show", Shearer alluded that the reason he was not part of the ride was because he would not be getting paid for it.
Harry Shearer | "The Simpsons"
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Harry Mestayer | References
His voice acting career began in 1940 and lasted until his death in 2005 at age 91.
Thurl Ravenscroft | Introduction
Harry Allen (July 10, 1883 – December 4, 1951), born in Sydney, New South Wales, was an Australian-born American character actor of the silent and sound film eras.
Harry Allen (actor) | Introduction
Harry Eugene Fonseca (5 January 1946 – 28 December 2006) was an American artist. He was born in Sacramento, California.
Harry Fonseca | Introduction
Burrows was born in Hugoton, Kansas, the son of William Franklin Burrows Jr., and Gladys Marie Wilcox (1917–1993) on November 30, 1945. He later took his grandmother's maiden name as his stage name to avoid being confused with another actor. Growing up, his parents would drop him off at the movie theater often in their rural town. After leaving high school he started out as a journalist for the Associated Press, and later became a popular voice on radio that took him first to Canada then to New York City. After a brief stint with a touring theater group, he worked as a stuntman at Boot Hill in Dodge City, Kansas.
Billy Drago | Early life
Horvitz was born and raised in Los Angeles, California on July 29, 1966 to a Christian family. He began acting at the age of 10. He has taught voice acting and theater at the California State University, Northridge.
Richard Steven Horvitz | Early life
Harry From (born 12 December 1934 in Bucharest, Romania - died 5 May 1996 in New York, USA) was a theater and film director, and movie producer.
Harry From | Introduction
Harry Rapf (16 October 1880, in New York City – 6 February 1949, in Los Angeles), was an American film producer.
Harry Rapf | Introduction
Tom Shear is an American musician and music producer, and is the sole member of the electronic act Assemblage 23. He was born on November 12, 1971 in State College, Pennsylvania, where he lived until he was about age six. After that, he lived in New Jersey for two years and then in New Hampshire for around twelve years.
Tom Shear | Introduction
Philip Clift Sayer (18 May 1953 – 14 April 2016) was an English voice artist. He was one half of the Sayer Hamilton voice studio, based in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in partnership with his wife, Elinor Hamilton.
Phil Sayer | Introduction
The group's radio show was canceled in 1970 by KRLA and in 1971 by KPPC-FM, so they started performing in various clubs and concert venues. While at KRLA, Shearer also interviewed Creedence Clearwater Revival for the "Pop Chronicles" music documentary. In 1973, Shearer appeared as Jim Houseafire on "How Time Flys", an album by The Firesign Theatre's David Ossman. The Credibility Gap broke up in 1976 when Lander and McKean left to perform in the sitcom "Laverne & Shirley". Shearer started working with Albert Brooks, producing one of Brooks' albums and co-writing the film "Real Life" (1979). Shearer also started writing for Martin Mull's television series "Fernwood 2 Night".
Harry Shearer | Early life
O'Halloran was born in Spooner, Wisconsin, and grew up in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. He began taking vocal lessons in 1924 and in 1926 moved to Chicago with plans to continue his voice studies. However, his relocation to Chicago took him into a career in radio instead.
Hal O'Halloran | Early years
Harry Love (April 1, 1911 – 27 February 1997) was an American animator, effects animator, production coordinator, and writer.
Harry Love (animator) | Introduction
Ackerman began his career as a writer, but soon became a radio performer, appearing as the comic poet Wilbur W. Willoughby, Jr. In 1938 he went to work as an advertising executive at Young & Rubicam. In 1946 he became vice president of program operations. Ackerman began his career in television at CBS, where he started as an executive producer in New York for the network. Later he became vice president in charge of CBS programs in Hollywood, California. While at CBS he helped create, develop, oversee, and/or approve the casting of "Gunsmoke, I Love Lucy, The Jack Benny Show, Burns and Allen, Amos 'n' Andy, Our Miss Brooks", and many other shows.
Harry Ackerman | Career
Skip Stellrecht (born Henry M. Stellrecht, Jr.; September 5, 1959 in Fullerton, California) is an American actor and voice actor, who was born and raised in Orange County California. Growing up with more of an interest in surfing, sports and music, it wasn’t until after graduating high school, that he discovered an interest in acting. He started with commercials, it wasn’t long before he started studying under the direction of some of the most well respected teachers in Hollywood. He soon started auditioning and booking several stage roles throughout the L.A. area and is proud to say, was a founding member of the Friends and Artist Theatre Ensemble.
Skip Stellrecht | Introduction
He also did celebrity voice impressions, among them of actor Wilson Barrett.
Harry Hemsley | Youth
Andrew "Andy" Shearer (January 26, 1864 – February 6, 1944) was a Canadian lumber merchant and amateur ice hockey player. He was the father of Hollywood actresses Norma and Athole Shearer and sound designer and recording director Douglas Shearer, and an older brother of zoologist Cresswell Shearer.
Andrew Shearer (lumber merchant) | Introduction
After World War II was over, he went to Warner Brothers from 1950 to 1962, where he animated Merrie Melodies shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, and others, like What's Opera Doc, Tweet Tweet Tweety, and Hot Cross Bunny. He also was a production coordinator on The Incredible Mr. Limpet. By 1950, he was receiving credit in Warner Bros. Cartoons, usually as an effects animator. In 1954, he was involved in a car accident, which he lived shortly after it, and he said he was lucky to be alive. On February 1956, he had to have additional surgery for his injured leg, which took 2 days.
Harry Love (animator) | Career
Wilmot was born in Lambeth, London, into a mixed-race household; his mother was English, and his father, Harry, was Jamaican and arrived in Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948. Harry was a member of vocal harmony group The Southlanders, but died of a brain tumour in 1961, when his sons were still young. Despite these show business roots, Wilmot's upbringing was outside of the limelight. He worked on building sites and in factories, but soon realised manual labour was not a career he wished to pursue.
Gary Wilmot | Early life
"I had to decide if I wanted to be a singer or an actor. I was always singing. I thought if I could be an actor, I could do all of it." Briggs encouraged him to leave the university and become an actor. He studied at the Pasadena Playhouse in Pasadena, California, where his classmates included his friends Tyler MacDuff and Dana Andrews. During World War II, Stanton served in the United States Navy, including a stint as a cook aboard the USS "LST-970", a Landing Ship, Tank, during the Battle of Okinawa.
Harry Dean Stanton | Early life
Harry W. Tetrick (May 6, 1911 – March 17, 1977) was an American sound engineer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards in the category Best Sound.
Harry W. Tetrick | Introduction
Brooks managed to convince Shearer to join the cast. Shearer's first impression of "The Simpsons" was that it was funny. Shearer, who thought it was a "pretty cool" way to work, found it peculiar that the members of the cast were adamant about not being known to the public as the people behind the voices. Shearer provides voices for Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Reverend Lovejoy, Dr. Hibbert, Lenny Leonard, Otto Mann, Rainier Wolfcastle, Scratchy, Kang, Dr. Marvin Monroe, and Judge Snyder, among others. He has described all of his regular characters' voices as "easy to slip into.
Harry Shearer | "The Simpsons"
Harry Harris (September 8, 1922 – March 19, 2009) was an American television and film director. Harris moved to Los Angeles in 1937 and got a mailroom job at Columbia Studios. After attending UCLA, he became an apprentice sound cutter, assistant sound effects editor, and then an assistant film editor at Columbia Pictures. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces at the start of World War II, and as part of the First Motion Picture Unit, reported to Hal Roach Studios in Culver City. His supervisor there was Ronald Reagan, who hired him as sound effects editor for training and combat films.
Harry Harris (director) | Introduction
After Fritz the Cat, he worked at Hanna-Barbera from 1974 to 1988 (14 years), and even started an animation college for the younger employees in 1976, eventually retiring in 1988. Love died from a heart attack in Burbank, California on February 27, 1997.
Harry Love (animator) | Career
He dropped out of the San Francisco Art Institute and relocated to Los Angeles, where he began a three-year period of intensive drama study. He was accepted into the Actors Conservatory Program with the classical theater company A Noise Within. In his theatrical debut, Harold appeared as "Bunny" in Gillian Plowman's "Me and My Friends".
Gale Harold | Early life
Harry Horner Barnhart (May 24, 1874 - September 3, 1948) was the conductor of the New York Community Chorus.
Harry Horner Barnhart | Introduction
Harry left the "Pine Bluff Commercial" when he was recruited by Bill Moyers to become the environmental writer for "Newsday" in New York.
Harry Pearson (audio critic) | Early years
Harry Harrison was born in England, but because his father was in the Air Force, he travelled, spending time in Libya and Singapore as well as Britain. He left school at 16 and took up a junior position in a supermarket, moving through a variety of careers and finally into illustration. In 1994 he moved from England to Hong Kong where he now lives on Lamma Island. Harry plays part-time in a band called the Yung Shue Wan Curs - a play on words relating to the village, Yung Shue Wan, near which he lives.
Harry Harrison (cartoonist) | Biography
Steinfeldt was born in St. Louis, Missouri on September 29, 1875, to German immigrants. His family moved to Fort Worth, Texas when he was five years old. He initially pursued a theatrical career.
Harry Steinfeldt | Early life
He also gave Bert Lahr his Broadway debut. With the advent of sound in films, Harry transferred his skills to the silver screen. Starting as a writer and moving quickly to director and producer. He utilized his experience with revues as inspiration for his films, many of which included the Eddie Elkins Orchestra.
Harry Delmar | Introduction
Born and educated in Melbourne, Australia, Freeman worked as an assistant paymaster/accountant for one of Australia's largest timber companies after leaving school. He wanted to be an opera singer, but decided his voice was not strong enough.
Alan Freeman | Early life
Harry Ham (25 May 1886 – 27 July 1943) was a Canadian actor from Napanee, Ontario. He died in 1943 in Beverly Hills, California.
Harry Ham | Introduction
Harry was born to English actress Lena Adelaide Rubenstein (known professionally as Adelaide Prince) and her first husband, Harry Prince. After his parents divorced, his mother married Creston Clarke, and Harry later adopted his last name (but changed the "a" to an "o," and dropped the final "e" to be able to join the writers' union once he began working as a screenwriter; there was already another Harry Clark). After moving to New York and establishing himself first as a performer (chiefly in vaudeville productions), and second as a playwright, penning a number of works that hit Broadway, he broke into screenwriting in the mid-1930s.
Harry Clork | Biography
Freberg began his career doing impersonations on Cliffie Stone's radio show in 1943. Freberg was employed as a voice actor in animation shortly after graduating from Alhambra High School. He began at Warner Brothers in 1944 by getting on a bus and asking the driver to let him off "in Hollywood". As he describes in his autobiography, "It Only Hurts When I Laugh", he got off the bus and found a sign that said "talent agency". He walked in, and the agents there arranged for him to audition for Warner Brothers cartoons where he was promptly hired. Thus began Freberg's professional career in entertainment, which lasted for more than 70 years, all the way up to his death.
Stan Freberg | Animation
He was forced to move the family to a more modest part of Montréal, and his wife Edith soon took her two daughters to New York City to find jobs in the entertainment industry, whereas Douglas stayed with his father. All of his three children would later pursue careers within the film industry in Hollywood, Norma and Athole as actresses and Douglas as a sound designer and recording director. Mental health issues also came to plague the family. Andrew Shearer was allegedly prone to manic depression and Norma described how he used to move like a "ghost like presence" around the house.
Andrew Shearer (lumber merchant) | Biography
Shearston trained as press correspondent with United Press and his first show business job was with the Tintookies, an Australian travelling puppet show. He joined the Hayes Gordon Ensemble Theatre working as an actor and stage manager.
Gary Shearston | Working life