Billy West
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Billy West
Billy West (born April 16 1952 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American voice actor, best known for his roles in Ren and Stimpy and Futurama. He voiced Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in the 1996 feature Space Jam and had a full-time stint on The Howard Stern Show. His work also includes voices on The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, and the original version of Doug. He and Joe Alaskey are known as the best voice actors who can impersonate Mel Blanc in his best years of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and other characters from Warner Bros. cartoons.
According to the commentary for the Invader Zim pilot episode and Richard Horvitz's interview on the 1st Zim DVD, West was originally cast to provide the voice of Zim on the series, but the part was given to Horvitz instead.
West is also a singer-songwriter with a band called Billy West and The Grief Counselors.
Major roles
- Ren and Stimpy on Ren and Stimpy.
- Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg, Captain Zapp Brannigan and President Richard Nixon's head on Futurama.
- Doug Funnie on Doug.
- Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in the movie Space Jam.
- Announcer of Screen Gems Network.
- BuzzBee, the honey nut bee in TV commercials for Honey Nut Cheerios.
- Voice of alien on the Pentium 4 commercial.
External links
- Billy West's Official Website (http://www.billywest.com/)
- Voice-over agency featuring Billy West (http://www.voicestarz.com/)
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