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Reeson Wayne Shearsmith (born 27 August 1969) is a British actor, comedian, writer and magician. He was a member of The League of Gentlemen, with Steve Pemberton, Mark Gatiss and Jeremy Dyson. Jointly with Pemberton, he created, wrote and starred in the sitcom Psychoville and the dark comedy anthology series Inside No. 9. He had notable roles in Spaced and The World's End. Shearsmith was born in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. He attended Andrew Marvell High School and then Bretton Hall College of Education, where he met Mark Gatiss and Steve Pemberton, fellow actors and comedians The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act in 1995, transferred to Radio 4 as On the Town with The League of Gentlemen in 1997, and arrived on television on BBC Two in 1999. The last saw Shearsmith and his colleagues awarded a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux. Following The League of Gentlemen, Shearsmith appeared in comedy programmes including Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere as well as playing villain Tony in the Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer comedy Catterick. He appeared in two episodes of the award-winning pop-culture comedy Spaced as Robot Wars-obsessed TA soldier Dexter, and played neurotic Doctor Flynn in hospital sitcom TLC alongside Alexander Armstrong. In 2014, Shearsmith and Pemberton returned to BBC2 with a new dark comedy series called Inside No. 9. Each episode of the anthology series takes place in a different 'No. 9' location. Shearsmith and Pemberton play various characters in the series and have also directed two of the episodes.[16] Also in 2014, he starred as Malcolm Webster in ITV drama series, based on a true story, The Widower.
Reece Shearsmith
Scarecrow
for Scarecrow in Batman: City of Fear
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Murderings of city officials sweep Gotham with a common thread between them being a chemical that breaks out your greatest fears and makes you live them until you die in them. Batman investigates at the crime scene. The chemicals can be found in the lab of Kirk Langstrom. He looks at camera footage and finds a man wearing a scarecrow mask rolling some canisters through a hallway. Batman visits E. Nygma at GothCorp and finds that Langstrom was fired for illegally experimenting on bats. Batman asks Harvey Dent about Langstrom. Batman finds that he has an apartment in Bristol. Batman stops by the apartment and interrogates Langstrom, who sold to the man. Batman goes to Penguin for info. He says Scarecrow works at WayneEnterprises. Batman goes through the staff and sees Jonathan Crane. Crane matches the bio of Scarecrow. He finds Crane’s lab and sees the chemicals. Scarecrow then gasses Batman. He sees a vision of his greatest fears. Batman falls out a window and he escapes. Batman gets Alfred to help him get over his fear and goes after Scarecrow. Batman finds out that Scarecrow is keeping the major offices hostage. Batman sneaks to an abandoned Arkham. He is gassed by Scarecrow but walks through the gas, beats Scarecrow, and the bombs go off. After that, he sprays the gas in his face. Crane squirms as he sees lots of Bats descending on him and gets knocked out by Batman. Batman takes Crane to the Commissioner, who was out of the building, but the rest weren’t so lucky
