Harris Shore

'Harris Shore' (qv) was born Harold Leroy Cherashore on September 22 in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, near Valley Forge. He attended local schools, excelled as an athlete and ultimately distinguished himself performing in plays and musicals. DNA research via 23 and Me traces his ancestry to Ashkenazi Russian/Austrian Jewish... and Neanderthal.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 from Philadelphia in 1970 on the heels of an award winning sales stint with Dun & Bradstreet, 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 (and dumpiest) hotels throughout the Catskills and Poconos, 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 in Manhattan. For the next fourteen years, Shore worked under nearly every Equity contract in New York and throughout the United States. Working extensively in experimental theatre, he won accolades for his portrayal of our thirty-third President, Harry S Truman in the musical "The Buck Stops Here," 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. Shore migrated to Los Angeles in 1989, where he has since continued to work. Portraying an army psychiatrist, he produced and co-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, he has completed "Killing Klaus," based on a true account of the attempted assassination of infamous Nazi, Klaus Barbie. Shore's favorite recurring role is as Dad to his 20-year-old daughter, now a junior in college.::Stonegame Media