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At 21 characters, he has the widest range of roles on I Simpson (1989), including the maniacal Mr. Burns, local celebrity news anchor Kent Brockman and the Springfield God Squad Reverend Lovejoy and Ned Flanders.

He was the last primary member of the cast of I Simpson (1989) to win an Emmy Award for his work on the show after finally taking the award home in 2014.

Although he was the second actor (after Christopher Collins) to voice Mr. Burns on I Simpson (1989), he was the first to utter the line "Smithers . . . release the hounds.".

He's the only one of the six principal voice actors on I Simpson (1989) not to have done a DVD commentary for the series.

He performed the precursor to the Eddie Haskell character in the pilot episode of the television series Il carissimo Billy (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.

He appeared in This Is Spinal Tap (1984) before being cast on I Simpson (1989). In 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.

He has played former U.S. President George Bush on five occasions on TV, most notably several times on the I Simpson (1989) (in Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington (1991), Mr. Plow (1992), Two Bad Neighbors (1996) and Realty Bites (1997)) and on The President's Coming! The President's Coming! Part 2 (1990).

He is the voice of the announcer for between-show trivia tidbits and network commercials on TV Land.

His middle name is Julius, which is also the first name of Dr Hibbert, a character for which he does the voice on I Simpson (1989).

He named his five favorite films as Il dottor Stranamore - Ovvero: come ho imparato a non preoccuparmi e ad amare la bomba (1964), Vogliamo vivere! (1942), Cantando sotto la pioggia (1952), Questo pazzo, pazzo, pazzo, pazzo mondo (1963) and any Laurel [Stan Laurel] and Hardy [Oliver Hardy] film.

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, and is represented by Peter Haviland at Ballard Spahr LLP. [October 17 2016].

He is one of three voice artists on I Simpson (1989) to guest star on the show Friends (1994). The other two are Dan Castellaneta and Hank Azaria.

He has appeared in three films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: Uomini veri (1983), This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Ragazze vincenti (1992).

He is a lifelong liberal Democrat.

In an interview with The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate, Shearer stated he spent time with Mel Blanc's son, who "was around my [sic] age". Blanc's only child Noel is over 5 years older than Shearer, who was born in 1943.

Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Volume 171, pages 373-377. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale Cengage Learning, 2008.