Along with Martin Short, Billy Crystal and Harry Shearer, Guest was hired as a one-year only cast member for the 1984-85 season on NBC's Saturday Night Live.

In 1926 Hawks was introduced to Athole Shearer by his friend Victor Fleming, who was dating Athole's sister Norma Shearer at the time.

Shearer's first marriage to writer John Ward was unhappy and she and Hawks began dating throughout 1927 until Shearer asked Ward for a divorce in 1928.

From 1969 to 1976, Shearer was a member of The Credibility Gap, a radio comedy group.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live.

While promoting the film, Shearer was offered the chance to return to Saturday Night Live.

He has received several Primetime Emmy Award and Grammy Award nominations and in 2008 it was announced that Shearer would receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the radio category.

Shearer was born December 23, 1943 in Los Angeles, California, the son of Dora Warren ( née Kohn ), a book-keeper, and Mack Shearer.

Starting when Shearer was four years old, he had a piano teacher whose daughter worked as a child actress.

Shearer received the role when he was seven years old.

" 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 and his parents made the decision not to accept the role in the series if it was picked up by a television network.

According to Shearer, after graduating, he had " a very serious agenda going on, and it was ' Stay Out Of The Draft '.

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.

In August 1979, Shearer was hired as a writer and cast member on Saturday Night Live, one of the first additions to the cast, and an unofficial replacement for John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd, who were both leaving the show.

Shearer told new executive producer Jean Doumanian that he was " not a fan of Lorne's " and offered to stay with the show if he was given the chance to overhaul the program and bring in experienced comedians, like Christopher Guest.

Shearer accepted because he was treated well by the producers and he thought the backstage environment had improved but later stated that he " didn't realize that guests are treated better than the regulars.

Dick Ebersol, who replaced Lorne Michaels as the show's producer, said that Shearer was " a gifted performer but a pain in the butt.

" In January 1985, Shearer left the show for good, partially because he felt he was not being used enough.

Shearer started working with Albert Brooks, producing one of Brooks ' albums and co-writing the film Real Life.

Despite making just one goalless appearance as England failed to progress past the Euro 1992 group stages that summer, Shearer was soon subject to a British transfer record-breaking £ 3. 3million bid from Blackburn Rovers.

Eventually both Manchester United and Newcastle United agreed fees with Blackburn Rovers and Shearer was all set to move to Manchester United but then at the last second Kevin Keegan requested one last audience with Shearer and persuaded him that his future lay at St. James Park.

The Divorcee was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with A Free Soul, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

Shearer is widely celebrated by some as one of cinema's feminist pioneers: " the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen ".

It also spelled the end of many silent careers, and Shearer was determined hers would not be one of them.

Shearer was also one of the many actresses considered for the role of Scarlett O ' Hara in Gone With The Wind ( 1939 ).

Then came The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 ) as Norma Shearer's character's malevolent father ( although Laughton was only three years older than Shearer ); Les Misérables ( 1935 ) as Inspector Javert ; one of his most famous screen roles in Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ) as Captain William Bligh, co-starring with Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian ; and Ruggles of Red Gap ( 1935 ) as the very English butler transported to early 1900s America.

Shearer is often able to perform dialogue between the two characters in one take.

A Free Soul was released on DVD by Warner Home Video on March 8, 2008 ( along with The Divorcee, also starring Norma Shearer ), as one of five Pre-Code films in the " TCM Archives-Forbidden Hollywood Collection, Vol.

( Norma Shearer would become one of his first foreign donors when he began working with leprosy patients.

Actor / writer Harry Shearer ( This Is Spinal Tap, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons ), who has attended at least one Bohemian Club event, wrote and directed The Teddy Bears ' Picnic, a parody of Bohemian Grove mock pagan pageantry and drunken revelry.

David Shearer, for example, argues that there was " a command-administrative economy " but it was not " a planned one ".

Sutton formed a prolific partnership with Swede Henrik Larsson, one which eclipsed his earlier one with Shearer.

On that day, Major Shearer submitted a report simply stating, " Woods now U. S. Marine Corps entirely ," ending one of the bloodiest and most ferocious battles U. S. forces would fight in the war.

Alan Shearer has spoken highly of Venables ' tenure as England manager, stating: " The best England team I played in was the one under Terry Venables before Euro 96.

Shearer was sacked just one day after a home defeat to Cove Rangers which all but ended Thistle's hopes of winning the league championship.

Contributing to the sense that Season 6 was doomed, in the first sketch the cast shared a bed with Gould and introduced themselves – Charles Rocket proclaimed himself to be a cross between Chevy Chase and Bill Murray, and Gilbert Gottfried ( prior to adopting his signature screechy, obnoxious voice ) referred to himself as a cross between John Belushi " and that guy from last year who did Rod Serling, and no one can remember his name " ( referring to Harry Shearer ).

In doing so, Defoe became only the third player to score five goals in one Premier League match after Alan Shearer and Andrew Cole.

On the international scene, England had failed to qualify for the 1994 World Cup finals, but Shearer added three more goals to his international tally before embarking on his most successful domestic season as a player to date.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

As a result, he helped develop some of MGM's most prestigious ventures, including Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), The Barretts of Wimpole Street ( 1934 film starring his wife Norma Shearer ), Mutiny on the Bounty ( 1935 ), China Seas ( 1935 ), A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ) with the Marx Brothers, San Francisco ( 1936 ), and Romeo and Juliet ( 1936 ).

After appearing on stage, Young was signed with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ( MGM )— a movie studio that, at the time, was known for holding contracts with a large number of stars — and, in spite of having a " tier B " status, he co-starred with some of the studio's most illustrious actresses, such as Margaret Sullavan, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Helen Hayes, Luise Rainer, and Helen Twelvetrees.

New shows such as Chart2Chart ( hosted by Jim Shearer ), which aired the most popular videos from the pop, rap, rock, and dance, singles and albums charts, began.

Shearer later recalled that " that smile made it the most fascinating face I had seen in years.

Athole Shearer ( November 20, 1900 – March 17, 1985 ) was an actress most noted as the sister of motion picture star Norma Shearer and film sound engineer Douglas Shearer.

In the 1997-98 season Barnes played up front mostly, deputising for Alan Shearer after Shearer was injured for most of the season, and Barnes ended up Newcastle's top league scorer with six goals, which highlighted the Magpie's lack of ability to score in the absence of Shearer and Ferdinand ( who had been sold along with Beardsley ).

Given overtook Alan Shearer as having played in the most European matches for the club on 16 September 2004 in a game against Bnei Sakhnin, and Given's 12 European and 3 FA Cup appearances helped Newcastle reach the UEFA Cup quarter-final and the FA Cup semi-final.

Sarina is home of the Sarina Crocodiles, producing Queensland players like Martin Bella, Dale Shearer, Kevin Campion and most recently dual international Wendell Sailor.

He is England's most prolific penalty taker ever with 8 goals, surpassing the previous record holders, Ron Flowers and Alan Shearer.

Among his most notable clients were Ben Turpin, Gloria Swanson, Mary Pickford, Pola Negri, Jean Harlow, Claudette Colbert, Bette Davis, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Judy Garland.

Despite missing most of the 1995 – 96 season through injury, Anderton played an important part in the Euro 96 England team that reached the semi-finals and included compatriots like Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Steve McManaman and Teddy Sheringham.

His ability to do that was shown in games for Tottenham and Newcastle, with his most memorable goal in Newcastle's stunning 5 – 0 win over Premier League giants Manchester United on 20 October 1996, becoming a flamboyant part of the memorable " Entertainers " Newcastle side of his era, which also featured other highly acclaimed players including Alan Shearer, Les Ferdinand, Faustino Asprilla, Peter Beardsley and Keith Gillespie.

Shearer was a craftsman and the author of most of the plates in The Cabinet Maker's London Book of Prices and Designs of Cabinet Work, issued in 1788 " for the London Society of Cabinet Makers.

Blackburn Rovers were among the three teams who won promotion to the Premier League upon its formation, and bankrolled by owner Jack Walker's millions they were able to attract some of the best players in English football – most notably £ 3. 6 million national record signing Alan Shearer.

Shearer is most famous for his work as lead trombonist and music director for the Stan Kenton Orchestra, since taking over the lead chair from Jim Trimble in the late 1960s until Kenton's death in 1979.