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Greg Evans Associate Editor/Broadway CriticThe Simpsons actor Harry Shearer, who gives voice to characters ranging from elderly miser Mr. Burns to the unflappable African-American physician Dr.

Harry Shearer, who has voiced multiple characters in "The Simpsons," criticized the show's decision to stop White actors from portraying non-White characters. The decades-long cartoon series announced in June that it would no longer have "white actors voice non-white characters" amid the Black Lives Matter movement.

The Simpsons has responded after producers announced they will no longer be using white actors to voice people of colour on the show.Harry Shearer, the voice Mr Burns, Ned Flanders and was the voice of Dr Hibbert, in the long-running animated series questioned the move and said that actors should be able to play outside their own experience.He told Times Radio: “I have a very simple belief about acting. The job of the actor is to play someone who they are not.