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TIL that Harry Shearer, famed voice actor of a slew of Simpsons characters including Mr Burns, Waylon Smithers, and Principal Skinner, had his first acting role in an Abbot and Costello film. He played a small role in Abbott and Costello Go To Mars (1953).

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