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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.
Futurama had eight main cast members. Billy West performed the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and many other incidental characters. West auditioned for "just about every part", landing the roles of the Professor and Doctor Zoidberg. [46]
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."
Fry is voiced by Billy West, who also voices Doctor Zoidberg, Hubert J. Farnsworth and various other characters in the series. Although West auditioned for the part, it was originally given to Charlie Schlatter; [8] however, after a casting change, West was offered the job. [4] [9] The voice West uses for Fry has been described as that of a ...
Original “Futurama” cast member John DiMaggio, who has long voiced the chain-smoking robot Bender on the show, has given an update on his tentative position on returning for the animated ...
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 ...
Tributes have been paid across social media to voice actor Billy Kametz, following his death from colon cancer. The 35-year-old actor was well-known within the anime and video game industry. For ...