Dan Castellaneta

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Dan Castellaneta
Born	Daniel Louis Castellaneta October 29, 1957 (1957-10-29) (age 51) Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Occupation	Voice actor, Actor, Comedian
Spouse(s)	Deb Lacusta
Awards won Emmy Awards Outstanding Voice-Over Performance 1992 The Simpsons 1993 The Simpsons 2004 The Simpsons

Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta (October 29, 1957) is an American voice artist, actor and comedian, best known for providing the voice of Homer Simpson, and several other prominent characters such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, and Barney Gumble on the FOX animated series The Simpsons.^[1]

1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 The Simpsons 2.2 Other work 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Film 4.2 Television 4.3 Video games 4.4 Theater 5 Discography 6 References 7 External links

Castellaneta was born in Chicago, Illinois, and was educated at the Oak Park and River Forest High School and Northern Illinois University. He was raised on the south east side of Oak Park, Illinois in a modest home on Humphrey Avenue. While at Oak Park and River Forest High School, he played on the baseball team. After graduation, he went on to work at Chicago's Second City, which he later recalled as "a place that, if you're not good going in you'll come out good. If you're pretty good going in, then you'll come out very good".^[1]

Main article: The Simpsons

On The Simpsons, Castellaneta provides the voices for Homer Simpson, Abraham "Grampa" Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor "Diamond " Joe Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, Itchy, Kodos, Arnie Pie, Scott Christian, the Squeaky Voiced Teen and other characters.^[1] For his work on the series, he won three Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. He has also written a few episodes with his wife and appeared as himself on the Simpsons episodes "I Am Furious Yellow", "Homer Simpson, This Is Your Wife", "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" and "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses".

He guest starred in an episode of the U.S. legal drama L.A. Law, in which — employed as a Homer Simpson meetable character at a California theme park - he is dismissed for inappropriate (albeit in-character) behavior while in costume. (The episode was "LA Lawless" in 1992.)

Up until 1998, Castellaneta was paid $30,000 per episode. Castellaneta and the five other main Simpsons voice actors were then involved in a pay dispute in which Fox threatened to replace them with new actors and went as far as preparing for casting of new voices. However, the issue was soon resolved and from 1998 to 2004, they were paid $125,000 per episode. In 2004, the voice actors intentionally skipped several table reads, demanding they be paid $360,000 per episode.^[2] The strike was resolved a month later^[3] and Castellaneta's salary was increased to $250,000 per episode.^[4] Another contract renegotiation in 2008 saw his salary rise to $400,000 per episode. He was also made a consulting producer.^[5]

As of April 20, 2007, Castellaneta surpassed James Arness and Kelsey Grammer for the longest running portrayal of a fictional character on prime-time American television. He has portrayed Homer Simpson on The Tracey Ullman Show and The Simpsons from 1987 onwards, beating the twenty-year record held by Arness and Grammer.^{[citation needed]}

Castellaneta also played Grandpa and the mentally unstable ice cream truck driver known as "The Jolly-Olly Man" (among others) on Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, Jonathan in All Grown Up! (as well as parent show, Rugrats), the Things in The Cat in the Hat, and the Robot Devil in Futurama. In 1999 he played the comedic Nordom the anti-Modron in the computer game Planescape: Torment.

Castellaneta voiced the lead character in the animated series Earthworm Jim and narrated the movie Super Mario Bros. In 2005, he appeared on Arrested Development as Dr. Stein, a deadpan incompetent doctor who misdiagnosed Jason Bateman's character (and left tools inside him after surgery, causing him to exclaim "D'oh!") and in the movie The War of the Roses he seeks a divorce at the beginning of the movie. He does not talk in that role. He also appeared in episodes of Frasier, Friends, Reno 911!, Married... with Children (in the episode "The Dance Show", Castellaneta played the gay partner of a handsome man Peg dances with every night and he ends up cooking for Al), Yes, Dear, Reba, Everybody Loves Raymond, ALF, That '70s Show,and Stargate SG-1.

On February 22, 2000, his first music CD Two Lips was published. It was followed on April 23, 2002 by his first comedy CD, I Am Not Homer, in which he and his wife perform several comedy skits. (For example, on the first track, "AM Therapy", his wife plays a radio-show psychotherapist and he plays several characters who call in for help.) Both CDs were published by Oglio Records. I Am Not Homer is a parody of Leonard Nimoy's first autobiography, I Am Not Spock. Dan is shown doing the Vulcan Salute on the cover with an image of Homer's face between his fingers.

Castellaneta portrayed Aaron Spelling in the 2004 NBC film Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of Charlie's Angels, which followed the true story of how Spelling created the show. Castellaneta was also the voice of Megavolt on Darkwing Duck, Genie in the Aladdin sequel Return of Jafar and on the Aladdin TV series and Dr. Zibaldo in the Talespin episode "The Incredible Shrinking Molly".

In the early 1980s, Castellaneta briefly appeared as Detective Farblonget, an absent-minded private investigator, on the local Chicago children's show, Beyond the Magic Door.

Castellaneta guest-starred as Joe Spencer in the Stargate SG-1 season 8 episode "Citizen Joe". This was a humorous indirect connection between The Simpsons and Stargate, as Castellaneta voices Homer and The Simpsons is the favorite TV show of Jack O'Neil (Stargate's main character, played by Richard Dean Anderson). A year later, Castellaneta and his wife wrote the Simpsons episode "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore", in which Anderson guest-starred.

Castellaneta cameoed on a third season episode of Veronica Mars as a sociology professor, conducting an experiment on Logan Echolls and Wallace Fennel.

Castellaneta appeared in the Will Smith drama The Pursuit of Happyness, portraying a senior employee at Dean Witter Reynolds. Castellaneta also voices Batman villain The Ventriloquist in the animated series, The Batman.

In 2007 he appeared in The Bicycle Men at The King's Head Theatre in London.

Castellanetta also voiced Exdeath from Final Fantasy 5. He was largely allowed to re-use many catch phrases of Homer Simpson during his voicework, due to Exdeath sharing some of Homer's Qualities

He is married to writer Deb Lacusta and lives in Los Angeles where he occasionally performs alongside the branch of The Second City. He is a vegetarian and does not drink any alcoholic beverages. Castellaneta also practices Tai Chi. He has contributed to Democratic political candidates, and supported Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.^{[citation needed]}

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1986	Nothing in Common	Brian
1989	Say Anything...	Diane's teacher	Uncredited
	K-9	Maitre D'
	The War of the Roses	Man in chair
1991	Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead	Animated Mrs. Sturak
1993	Super Mario Bros.	Narrator	Credited as "Dan Castellenetta"
1994	The Return of Jafar	Genie	Direct-to-video release
	The Client	Slick Moeller
	Love Affair	Phil
1995	Forget Paris	Man test-driving car	Uncredited
1996	All Dogs Go to Heaven 2	Tall customs dog
	Space Jam	Male fan
1998	Plump Fiction	Blumpkin
	Aladdin's Arabian Adventures	Genie	Vols. 1-4: Team Genie, Creatures of Invention, Magic Makers, Fearless Friends; direct-to-video release
	My Giant	Partlow
1999	The Settlement	Neal
2000	Joseph: King of Dreams	Auctioneer Horse Trader	Direct-to-video release
	Rugrats in Paris: The Movie	Priest
2001	Recess: School's Out	Guard #1
2002	Harold Buttleman, Daredevil Stuntman	Human Canonball
	Return to Never Land	Additional voices
	Hey Arnold!: The Movie	Grandpa Phil Nick Vermicelli
2003	Kim Possible: The Secret Files	Drakken's Goons	Direct-to-DVD release
	The Cat in the Hat	Voice of Things One and Two
	Recess: Taking the Fifth Grade	BoE Agent #2	Direct-to-video release
2004	Adventures in Homeschooling	Gus Hemple	Short film
2006	I-See-You.Com	Jim Orr
	I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With	Dick
	Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!	Mr. Mysterio Woodenleg Wally	Direct-to-DVD release
	The Pursuit of Happyness	Alan Frakesh
2007	Hellboy Animated: Iron Shoes	Iron Shoes	Short film on DVD of Hellboy: Blood and Iron
	Chasing Robert	Dan the Bookie
	The Simpsons Movie	Various characters
2008	Superhero Movie	Carlson
	Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs	The Robot Devil	Direct-to-DVD release
	Immigrants (L.A. Dolce Vita)	Mr. Csapo[6]	Dub of Hungarian film
	Remembering Phil	Dr. Seymour
Horton Hears a Who	The Wickersham Brothers
2009	Scratching the Surface	Mr. Edelman

Year	Series	Role	Notes
1987-1990	The Tracey Ullman Show	Various characters	Appeared in 49 episodes
1989-	The Simpsons	Homer Simpson Various characters	Has also written four episodes Won four Primetime Emmy Awards
1990	ALF	Steve Michaels	Episode 4.21: "Stayin' Alive"
	TaleSpin	Dr. Zibaldo	Episode 63: "The Incredible Shrinking Molly"
	Bagdad Café	Gilbert	Episode 2.6: "Rainy Days and Mondays"
	Working Tra$h	George Agrande
1990, 1992	Married... with Children	Pete Funeral Director	Episode 5.5: "Dance Show" Episode 7.9: "Death of a Shoe Salesman"
1991	Dream On	Phil	Episode 2.3: "The 37-Year Itch"
	Taz-Mania	Mister Thickley	Recurring role
	Sibs	Warren Morris	Recurring role
1991-1992	Darkwing Duck	Megavolt Elmo Sputterspark	Appeared in 12 episodes
	Back to the Future: The Animated Series	Dr. Emmett Brown	Appeared in all 26 episodes
1992	Lady Against the Odds	Len Chisholm	TV film
	Fievel's American Tails	Chula the Tarantula	Appeared in nine episodes
	L.A. Law	David Champion	Episode 7.1: "L.A. Lawless"
	Dinosaurs	Zabar	Episode 3.6: "Germ Warfare"
	Tiny Toon Adventures	Jeffries Harvey	Episode 3.13: "Grandma's Dead" Episode 3.20: "It's a Wonderful Tiny Toon Christmas Special"
1992-1997	Eek! The Cat	Mittens Bill	Appeared in 11 episodes
1993	The Pink Panther	Voodoo Man Additional voices	Recurring roles
	Tracey Ullman Takes On New York	Gordon	HBO one-off special
	Sonic the Hedgehog	Lazaar	Episode 1.5: "Super Sonic"; uncredited
	Animaniacs	Dracula	Episode 1.29: "Draculee, Draculaa/Phranken-Runt"
	Marsupilami	Stewart	Episodes 1.7 and 1.11
1994	The Critic	Homer Simpson	Episode 1.3: "Dial 'M' for Mother"
	Wings	George Wexler	Episode 5.18: "Moonlighting"
	The George Carlin Show	Passenger	Episode 1.7: "George Gets Some Money"
	Related by Birth	Warren Morris
	Bakersfield P.D.	Darian Ferguson	Episode 1.17: "Last One Into the Water"
	Street Sharks	Mega Shark Bot	Episode 1.6: "Enter Blades"
	Grace Under Fire	Mr. Rudder	Episode 2.5: "Jimmy's Girl"
	The Tick	Mole King	Episode 1.11: "The Tick vs. the Mole-Men"
1994-1995	Aladdin	Genie	Appeared in 65 episodes
1995	Murphy Brown	Tony Lucchesi	Episode 7.17: "Specific Overtures"
	The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes	Alan Winsdale
1995-1996	Earthworm Jim	Earthworm Jim	Appeared in all 23 episodes
1996	The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper	Additional voices
	Friends	Zoo Janitor	Episode 2.12: "The One After the Superbowl: Part 1"
	NYPD Blue	Gus	Episode 3.15: "Head Case"
	Quack Pack	Additional voice	Episode 1.13: "Koi Story"
1996-2004	Hey Arnold!	Various characters	Main cast member
1997	Cybill	DaVolio	Episode 3.17: "Kiss Me, You Fool"
	The Drew Carey Show	Stan	Episode 2.20: "Two Drews and the Queen of Poland"
	Duckman	Homer Simpson	Episode 4.14: "Duckman and Cornfed in 'Haunted Society Plumbers'"
	Nightmare Ned	Number 1	Episode "Alien Abduction"
	The Online Adventures of Ozzie the Elf	Comet & Blitzen
1997-1999	Cow and Chicken	Various characters
1998	Rhapsody in Bloom	Chelton	TV film
	Hercules: The Animated Series	Homer the reporter	Episodes 1.18: "Hercules and the Comedy of Arrows" and 1.26: "Hercules and the Trojan War"
1998-2001	Everybody Loves Raymond	Bryan	Episodes 2.20: "T-Ball" and 6.8: "It's Supposed to Be Fun"
1998-2003	Rugrats	Jonathan	Recurring role
1999	Mad About You	Rory O'Grady	Episode 7.10: "Win a Free Car"
	Johnny Bravo	Harvey	Episode 2.11: "A League of His Own/Johnny Goes to Camp/Buffoon Lagoon"
	Oh, Grow Up	Sven Jorgensen	Episode 1.7: "Hunter's Metamorphosis"
	Nash Bridges	Eddie Day	Episode 5.9: "Crosstalk"
	Olive, the Other Reindeer	The Postman	TV special
1999-2003	Futurama	Robot Devil	Episodes 1.9: "Hell is Other Robots" and 4.18: "The Devil's Hands Are Idle Playthings"
2000	Buzz Lightyear of Star Command	Various characters	Appeared in eight episodes
2000, 2001	Batman Beyond	Mr. Brooks Guard Kobra Commado	Episode 2.13: "Terry's Friend Dates a Robot" Episode 3.10: "The Curse of the Kobra: Part 1" Episode 3.11: "The Curse of the Kobra: Part 2"
2001	The New Woody Woodpecker Show	Additional voice	Episode "Ya Gonna Eat That?/Chilly & Hungry/Brother Cockroach"
	Yes, Dear	Walt	Episode 1.12: "Where There's a Will, There's a Waiver"
	Laughter on the 23rd Floor	Milt Fields	TV movie
	Disney's House of Mouse	Genie	Episode 1.2: "Big Bad Wolf Daddy"
2002	Jackie Chan Adventures	Jumba	Episode 2.23: "Into the Mouth of Evil"
	Kim Possible	Various characters	Appeared in three episodes
2002-2003	Reba	Eugene Fisher	Episodes 2.7: "Mommy Nearest" and 2.6: "The Feud"
2003	The Pitts	Morty	Episode 1.4: "Dummy and Dummier"
	Lucky	Judge	Episode 1.12: "Monkey on Your Back"
	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Professor Crank	Episode 2.5: "Operation: Rescue Jet Fusion"
	The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show	Kung-fu Trainer	Episode 1.1: "Kung-fu Kitty"
	Justice League	Minister	Episodes 2.7 and 2.8: "Maid of Honor" Parts 1 and 2
	Duck Dodgers	Martian sage Football player #3	Episode 1.10: "Quarterback Quack/To Love a Duck"
	Frasier	Brad	Episode 11.7: "Maris Returns"
	That '70s Show	Agent Armstrong	Episode 6.5: "I'm Free"
2004	Party Wagon	Wild Bill Hickok Clerk Cheyenne #2	TV film
	Behind the Camera: The Unauthorized Story of 'Charlie's Angels'	Aaron Spelling	TV film
	The Jimmy Timmy Power Hour	Goddard's evil robot voice	TV film
	As Told by Ginger	Dave Bishop Jeweler	Episode 3.3: "About Face"
	Complete Savages	Frog Mr. Horner	Episode 1.6: "Free Lily"
2004-2008	The Batman	Arnold Wesker/Scarface	Appeared in three episodes
2005	Stargate SG-1	Joe Spencer	Episode 8.18: "Citizen Joe"
	What's New, Scooby-Doo?	Officer McBride	Episode: "A Scooby-Doo Valentine"
	Arrested Development	Dr. Stein	Episode 2.15: "The Sword of Destiny"
	Loonatics Unleashed	College Professor	Episode 1.6: "The Comet Cometh"
2006	The Jeff Garlin Program	Ted
	Veronica Mars	Dr. Kinny	Episode 3.2: "My Big Fat Greek Rush Week"
	Casper's Scare School	Stretch	TV film
	Legion of Super Heroes	Boris Captain Howdy Coluans	Episode 1.4: "Fear Factory"
2006-2007	Campus Ladies	Dean Dewey	Episodes 1.7: "Safety Bathroom" and 2.7: "Safety First"
2007	Sands of Oblivion	Cecil B. DeMille	TV film
	Entourage	Andrew Preston	Episodes 4.2: "The First Cut Is the Deepest" and 4.7: "The Day Fuckers"
	Greek	Dr. Milton Hastings	Episodes 1.2: "Hazed and Confused" and 1.7: "Multiple Choice"
2008	Monk	Tiny Werner	Episode 6.12: "Mr Monk Goes to the Bank"
	Reno 911!	Commissioner Jerry Salerno	Episode 5.11: "Junior Runs for Office"
	Relative Stranger	Gary
2009	Castle	Judge Markway	Episode 1.1: "Pilot"

• The Simpsons (1991) - Homer Simpson
• The Simpsons Cartoon Studio (1996) - Various characters
• Toonstruck (1996) - Flux Wildly
• Virtual Springfield (1997) - Various characters
• ClayFighter 63 1/3 (1997) - Earthworm Jim, Boogerman
• Driver (1998) - Answering machine callers
• Planescape: Torment (1999) - Nordom
• Y2K: The Game (1999) - Additional voices
• Earthworm Jim 3D (1999) - Earthworm Jim
• The Simpsons Bowling (1999) - Various characters
• Aladdin in Nasira's Revenge (2001) - Genie
• The Simpsons Wrestling (2001) - Various characters
• The Simpsons Road Rage (2001) - Various characters
• Kingdom Hearts (2002) - Genie
• The Simpsons Skateboarding (2002) - Various characters
• The Simpsons Hit & Run (2003) - Various characters
• Metal Arms: Glitch in the System (2003) - Krunk
• Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) - Genie
• Kingdom Hearts II (2005) - Genie
• Cartoon Network Racing (2006) - Earl
• Happy Feet (2006) - Ramon, Elephant seal #1
• The Simpsons Game (2007) - Various characters

• American Splendor - Harvey Pekar

• I Am Not Homer (2003)
• Two Lips (2000)

• Dan Castellaneta at the Internet Movie Database
• Ten Questions with Dan Castellaneta

v • d • e The Simpsons cast members Main cast Dan Castellaneta · Julie Kavner · Nancy Cartwright · Yeardley Smith · Hank Azaria · Harry Shearer Recurring cast Pamela Hayden · Tress MacNeille · Maggie Roswell · Russi Taylor · Karl Wiedergott Recurring guest stars Albert Brooks · Kelsey Grammer · Jan Hooks · Jane Kaczmarek · Maurice LaMarche · Jon Lovitz · Joe Mantegna · Marcia Wallace Former cast Christopher Collins · Doris Grau · Jo Ann Harris · Phil Hartman · Marcia Mitzman Gaven · Frank Welker

v • d • e The Simpsons writers Current writers J. Stewart Burns · Dan Castellaneta · Daniel Chun · Joel H. Cohen · Kevin Curran · John Frink · Stephanie Gillis · Dan Greaney · Matt Groening · Ron Hauge · Al Jean · Billy Kimball · Deb Lacusta · Tim Long · Ian Maxtone-Graham · George Meyer · David Mirkin · Bill Odenkirk · Carolyn Omine · Don Payne · Michael Price · Mike Reiss · Mike Scully · Matt Selman · Matt Warburton · Jeff Westbrook · Marc Wilmore Former recurring writers Richard Appel · James L. Brooks · Donick Cary · David X. Cohen · Jonathan Collier · Jennifer Crittenden · Greg Daniels · Larry Doyle · Brent Forrester · Dana Gould · Ken Keeler · Brian Kelley · Jay Kogen · Jeff Martin · Tom Martin · Dan McGrath · Frank Mula · Bill Oakley · Conan O'Brien · Jace Richdale · Brian Scully · Sam Simon · David M. Stern · John Swartzwelder · Julie Thacker · Steve Tompkins · Jon Vitti · Josh Weinstein · Wallace Wolodarsky One or two-time writers Bob Bendetson · Michael Carrington · Robert Cohen · Spike Feresten · Ricky Gervais · Howard Gewirtz · Ned Goldreyer · Reid Harrison · Mick Kelly · Andrew Kreisberg · Bob Kushell · Adam I. Lapidus · Rob LaZebnik · Ken Levine · Steve O'Donnell · Steve Pepoon · Bill Freiberger · Mimi Pond · Rachel Pulido · David Richardson · David Sacks · Nell Scovell · Joshua Sternin · Jeffrey Ventimilia · Patric Verrone · Steve Young

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Nancy Cartwright (1992) · Dan Castellaneta (1992) · Julie Kavner (1992) · Jackie Mason (1992) · Yeardley Smith (1992) · Marcia Wallace (1992) · Dan Castellaneta (1993) · Christopher Plummer (1994) · Jonathan Katz (1995) · Jeremy Irons (1997) · Rik Mayall (1997) · Hank Azaria (1998) · Ja'net Du Bois (1999) · Seth MacFarlane (2000) · Julie Harris (2000) · Complete list: (1990-2000) · (2001-present)

v • d • e Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance Hank Azaria (2001) · Ja'net Du Bois (2001) · Peter Macon (2002) · Pamela Adlon (2002) · Hank Azaria (2003) · Dan Castellaneta (2004) · Keith David (2005) · Kelsey Grammer (2006) · Keith David (2008) Complete list: (1990-2000) · (2001-present)

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NAME	Castellaneta, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Castellaneta, Daniel Louis
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Voice actor, Actor, Comedian
DATE OF BIRTH	October 29, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chicago, Illinois, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH