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William Richard Werstine [1] [4] (born April 16, 1952), [5] [2] known professionally as Billy West, is an American voice actor, musician and radio personality.His voice roles include Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film Space Jam and several subsequent projects, the title characters of Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and the Futurama characters Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp ...
Philip J. Fry (voiced by Billy West), primarily known by his surname Fry, is the main protagonist of the series.He is a 20th-century pizza delivery boy in New York City who, after getting dumped by his girlfriend and being stuck in a dead-end job, is cryogenically frozen on December 31, 1999, waking up 1000 years later just before the year 3000.
Billy West provides the voice of Fry. Although Billy West stated in an interview that the name "Philip" was given to Fry by Matt Groening as a homage to the late Phil Hartman , for whom the role of Zapp Brannigan was created, [ 4 ] Groening said during the 2013 Futurama panel at San Diego Comic-Con that Fry was in fact named after Groening's ...
Professor Farnsworth is voiced by Billy West, using a combination of impressions of Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan. [5] West has stated that the voice for Farnsworth is meant to be a bit shaky and that when developing the voice he came up with "a combination of all the wizard-type characters you heard when you were a kid, Burgess Meredith and Frank Morgan in The Wizard of Oz."
Original series cast members Billy West, Katey Sagal, Tress MacNeille, Maurice LaMarche, Lauren Tom, Phil LaMarr and David Herman are all set to reprise their respective roles for the Hulu series.
Zoidberg is named after an Apple II game that series writer David X. Cohen created in high school called Zoid, similar to the game Qix.The game was rejected by Broderbund. [2] [3] [4] One of Cohen's inspirations for the character of Dr. Zoidberg was the fact that Star Trek character Leonard McCoy, the ship's doctor, frequently administered medical treatment to aliens such as Spock, so Cohen ...
In the old photo, the former "30 Rock" star and brothers Stephen, Daniel and Billy pose shirtless and flexing, showing off their buff bods. "Gonna get the band back together..." Baldwin, now 60 ...
This is a list of guest stars who appeared on Futurama, an animated comedy created by Matt Groening. Like Groening's other animated show, The Simpsons , Futurama features a large number of celebrity guests contributing their voices to the show, whether as themselves or as fictional characters.