Personal life

Harland Reesor Williams was born on November 14, 1962, in Toronto, Ontario, to Lorraine Mary (née O'Donnell), a social worker, and John Reesor Williams, a lawyer who served as a member of the Ontario legislature from 1975 to 1985. He is the middle child of five with two older and two younger sisters.

Harland holds dual citizenship with Canada and the United States.

He is an author and illustrator of his own series of children's books involving a little brontosaurus named Jimbo. Williams' love of art drove him to create the series, in which the curious, young dinosaur embarks on a series of amazing adventures and learns important life lessons in the process. The artistically inclined Williams had refined his passion for drawing and painting at Canada's Sheridan College in Oakville, Ontario. Finding a creative outlet in poetry and painting while working as a forest ranger for five years after dropping out of Sheridan College, Williams set his goals to leave the forest as a stand-up comic and actor, soon moving to Los Angeles to pursue his newfound calling.

Williams is cousin to Barenaked Ladies keyboardist Kevin Hearn, and together they have a hobby band called The Cousins.

Career

Williams is known for his movie roles, which include Dumb and Dumber, Freddy Got Fingered, There's Something About Mary, Half Baked, RocketMan, Sorority Boys, Down Periscope and Employee of The Month. Williams was featured as a security guard in the music video for Barenaked Ladies "Falling for the First Time". He has performed his stand-up comedy routines on Late Night with David Letterman, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, HBO, Comedy Central and at comedy clubs throughout the country.

His improvisational skills led to him winning the award for 'Best Improviser' on an episode of NBC's prime time series Thank God You're Here in 2007.

Williams's ventures include voicing 'Monster' on Nickelodeon's new animated series Robot and Monster and starring as Warwick the Warlock in Disney's direct-to-DVD movie Spooky Buddies.

He has a free, bi-weekly podcast called The Harland Highway. The Harland Highway can be downloaded on iTunes or streamed live from your mobile device on Stitcher Radio. His podcast is unique in that instead of focusing on interviews and similar content, it is made up of unique pop culture commentary, as well as improvisation by Williams, featuring a diverse lineup of recurring characters.

Rocker Parry Gripp of the rock band Nerf Herder wrote a song in homage to Williams, entitled "I Wanna Be Your Harland Williams".

He has appeared on Tom Green's House Tonight and on the Adam Carolla Podcast numerous times. He is known for his performance of bird sounds on Carolla's show.

In August 2012 he began filming in Vancouver a 13-part CityTV comedy series called Package Deal, in which he stars.

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1994	Dumb and Dumber	State Trooper
1996	Down Periscope	E.T. "Sonar" Lovacelli
1997	RocketMan	Fred Z. Randall
	Wag The Dog	Pet Wrangler
	Space Ghost Coast to Coast	Himself	1 episode
1998	Half Baked	Kenny Davis
	There's Something About Mary	Hitchhiker (uncredited)
	Dog Park	Callum
	Ned's Newt	Newton (voice)
	Mr. Headmistress	Tucker
1999	Superstar	Slater
2000	The Whole Nine Yards	Special Agent Steve Hanson
	Big Money Hustlas	Officer Harry Cox
	Becoming Dick	Richard Breggs
2001	Freddy Got Fingered	Darren
2002	Back by Midnight	Sheriff Hubbard
	Sorority Boys	Doofer/Roberta
2003	Family Tree	Jake
	Gary & Mike	Mike Bonner (voice)
	Kart Racer	Zee
2005	Lucky 13	Bleckman
	Because of Winn-Dixie	Policeman
	Robots	Lug (voice)
2006	Employee of the Month	Russell Porpis-Gunders
	Surf School	Rip
	Ergo Proxy	Head Dog Cop (voice)	1 episode
2007	Meet the Robinsons	Carl (voice)
	The Dukes of Hazzard: The Beginning	Sheriff Rosco P. Coltrane
2008	Bachelor Party 2: The Last Temptation	Derek
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Giraffe (voice)
2009	Fudgy Wudgy Fudge Face	Elmore P. Fudge
	My Life in Ruins	Big Al Sawchuck
2011	Spooky Buddies	Warwick the Warlock
	Lloyd the Conqueror	Vulcan
	Dahmer Vs. Gacy	God
	Robot Chicken	Professor Cornelius Q. Quibblefingers (voice)	1 episode; also writes 4 episodes
2012	The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange	Apple (voice)
	Robot and Monster	Monster (voice)	Main Role
	2014	Back in the Day	Skunk
2015	Jake and the Never Land Pirates	Captain Frost (voice)
	Penn Zero: Part-Time Hero	Helper Hue (voice)

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