Harris Shore

Multi-talented and versatile character actor and singer Harris Shore was born Harold Cherashore on September 22, 1946 in the little town of Phoenixville in Southeastern Pennsylvania. He attended local schools, excelled as an athlete and ultimately distinguished himself performing in plays and musicals. Shore takes his place in American Pop Culture as the original, live-action Mario of the Donkeykong commercials for ColecoVision, circa 1981; and as the first Mr. Lippman in the hit comedy series, Seinfeld. Upon arrival in New York City in the fall of 1970, Shore soon garnered a position as singing waiter at the famed Pig N' Whistle. There his collaboration with five other young hopefuls produced the sensational show group, "Four On The Town," which played to standing ovations at some of the finest hotels throughout the Eastern Seaboard, and on cruise ships and countless club dates. "Perhaps the greatest moment in my career," stated Shore, "was the five weeks we spent entertaining our troops in Vietnam and Thailand in the spring of 1972." When the group disbanded in the Fall of that year, Shore began his formal acting studies with the legendary Michael Howard. Thus began a decades long love affair with the craft of acting and the good fortune of creating a myriad of characters for stage and screen. For the next fourteen years, he worked under nearly every Equity contract in New York and throughout the United States. Working extensively in experimental theatre, he played Frederick of Hollywood in Wendy Wasserstein's first play, "Montpelier Pazzazz" at Playwrights Horizons and won accolades for his portrayal of our thirty-third President, Harry S. Truman in the musical "The Buck Stops Here," the latter created at AMAS Repertory Theatre and culminating on tour at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. Shortly thereafter Shore filmed the TV series, "Just For Laughs" playing a slew of ridiculous characters alongside impressionist Fred Travalena. He migrated to Los Angeles in 1989, where he has since continued to work in television, film and theatre. Portraying an army psychiatrist, he produced and starred in the late Tom Cole's searing stage drama about a Vietnam vet with PTSD, "Medal of Honor Rag" at the Zephyr and Wadsworth Theaters. As a playwright, Shore has completed "Killing Klaus," the latter based on a true account of the attempted assassination of infamous Nazi, Klaus Barbie. His novella, "The Phoenixville Phantom," is now ready for publication. Shore's favorite recurring role is as Dad to his 17-year-old daughter, with whom he lives in a neat old Craftsman house in Hollywood, California.