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Daniel Louis "Dan" Castellaneta is an American actor and voice actor of Italian origin whose specialty is voice-over-for-film characters. He has done voice work for the Sonic the Hedgehog television series.
History[]
Born in Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Castellaneta started taking acting classes at a young age. He would listen to his father's comedy records and do impressions of the artists. After graduating from Northern Illinois University in 1979, Castellaneta joined Chicago's Second City in 1983, and performed with the troupe until 1987. He was cast in The Tracey Ullman Show, which debuted in 1987. The Tracey Ullman Show included a series of animated shorts about a dysfunctional family. Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Castellaneta to voice Homer. His voice for the character started out as a loose impression of Walter Matthau, but later evolved into a more robust voice. The shorts would eventually be spun off into The Simpsons. Castellaneta has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance|Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work on the show as well as an Annie Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in the Field of Animation in 1993. Castellaneta has co-written four episodes of The Simpsons with his wife Deb Lacusta.
Castellaneta has also had roles in several other television programs, including the live-action sitcom Sibs, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, and the animated series Darkwing Duck, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Earthworm Jim, Aladdin and Hey Arnold!. In 1999, he appeared in the Christmas special Olive, the Other Reindeer and won an Annie Award for his portrayal of the Postman. Castellaneta has also released a comedy CD, I Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled Where Did Vincent van Gogh?
Filmography[]
Films[]
- The Return of Jafar - The Genie
- The Simpsons Movie - Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble
TV series[]
- Back to the Future: The Animated Series - Dr. Emmett Brown
- Darkwing Duck - Megavolt/Elmo Sputterspark
- Earthworm Jim - Earthworm Jim
- Futurama - Robot Devil/Beelzebot
- The Simpsons - Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown
Video games[]
- Kingdom Hearts - The Genie
Credits[]
Voice acting[]
Trivia[]
- Castellaneta voiced Christopher Lloyd's character; Emmett Brown in Back to the Future: The Animated Series.
- Although, in live-action segments Christopher Lloyd played the character.
External links[]
- Dan Castellaneta at Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- Dan Castellaneta at the Internet Movie Database