Harry Shearer Net Worth

Harry Shearer's Quotes

• If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?
• [on which character in The Simpsons (1989) is hardest to voice] Burns requires lots of tea and honey.
• [asked how many characters on The Simpsons (1989) he voices] I think I do about 12 regular characters but I've been able to pad the resume with God, The Devil and Hitler.
• [criticizing the decline in quality of The Simpsons (1989)] I rate the last three seasons as among the worst, so Season 4 looks very good to me now.
• I write about broadcast indecency with something of a pedigree. Although it's not widely known - since the comedy group I was part of was not widely known - I was party to the first broadcast utterance of the word 'twat.'

Interesting Facts about Harry Shearer

1. His middle name is Julius, which is also the first name of Dr Hibbert, a character for which he does the voice on The Simpsons (1989).
2. He appeared in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) before being cast on The Simpsons (1989). In The Simpsons: The Otto Show (1992), Bart and Milhouse go to a Spinal Tap concert. Shearer, as well as Michael McKean and Christopher Guest, all reprised their roles. This marked the only time on the show that a cast member reprised a film role for the series and makes Shearer the only regular cast member to have done so.
3. He is the voice of the announcer for between-show trivia tidbits and network commercials on TV Land.
4. At 21 characters, he has the widest range of roles on The Simpsons (1989), including the maniacal Mr. Burns, local celebrity news anchor Kent Brockman and the Springfield God Squad Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders.
5. He is one of three voice artists on The Simpsons (1989) to guest star on the show Friends (1994). The other two are Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.
6. Although he was the second actor (after Christopher Collins) to voice Mr. Burns on The Simpsons (1989), he was the first to utter the line "Smithers . . . release the hounds.".
7. He was the last primary member of the cast of The Simpsons (1989) to win an Emmy Award for his work on the show after finally taking the award home in 2014.
8. He's the only one of the six principal voice actors on The Simpsons (1989) not to have done a DVD commentary for the series.
9. Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 171, pages 373-377. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2008.
10. He performed the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Leave It to Beaver (1957). 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 get 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.
11. He named his five favorite films as Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Spionnage in het spel (1942), Singin' in the Rain (1952), It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963) and any Laurel [Stan Laurel] and Hardy [Oliver Hardy] film.
12. In his lawsuit against distribution companies Vivendi and StudioCanal he is seeking $125 million in compensatory and punitive damages .[October 17 2016].
13. He filed a $125 million lawsuit against distribution companies Vivendi and StudioCanal for fraud, breach of contract, breach of implied covenant of Good faith and Fair dealing. [October 17 2016].
14. In his lawsuit against distribution companies Vivendi and StudioCanal, he is represented by Peter Haviland at Ballard Spahr LLP.[October 17 2016].
15. He has played former U.S. President George Bush on five occasions on TV, most notably several times on the The Simpsons (1989) (in The Simpsons: Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington (1991), The Simpsons: Mr. Plow (1992), The Simpsons: Two Bad Neighbors (1996) and The Simpsons: Realty Bites (1997)) and on The Golden Girls: The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2 (1990).
16. He is a lifelong liberal Democrat.