Harry Shearer

Harry Julius Shearer is an American actor, voice actor, comedian, writer, musician, author, radio host, director and producer. He is known for his longrunning roles on The Simpsons, his work on Saturday Night Live, the comedy band Spinal Tap and his radio program Le Show. 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 cowrote the film Real Life with Albert Brooks and started writing for Martin Mulls television series FernwoodNight.

Shearer was born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, the son of Dora Warren , a bookkeeper, and Mack Shearer. His parents were Jewish immigrants 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 childrens agent, as she knew people in the business through her daughters work. The teacher asked Shearers parents for permission to take him to an audition. Several months later, she called Shearers parents and told them that she had gotten Shearer an audition for the radio show The Jack Benny Program. 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 h

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