»Billy West, voice actor Genius! [Futurama]«

Most of you would have never heard of Billy West, but chances are you've heard his voice! Born in 1950, he used to do Celebrity Impressions on the Howard Stern show ( heh, in a Futurama episode Fry screams "Howard Stern is overrated!")
His two most notable tv performances have been on Futurama and the Ren and Stimpy show! On Futurama he played Proffessor Farnsworth, Fry, Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, Richard Nixons Head, Leo Wong and alot of Extra voices! On the Ren and Stimpy show he played Ren, Stimpy and alot of extra voices! He also did the voice of Zim on the pilot episode of Invader Zim!

His filmography -

Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (2004) (voice) ... Bugs Bunny
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004) (TV) (voice) ... Popeye
ShellShock: Nam '67 (2004) (VG) (voice) ... DJ, US Soldiers, Pilots and Prisoners #4
Jimmy Neutron: Win, Lose and Kaboom (2004) (TV) (voice) ... Sam/Corky Shumatsu
Comic Book: The Movie (2004) (V) ... Leo Matuzik
Aero-Troopers: The Nemeclous Crusade (2003) (V) (voice)
Creature Unknown (2003) (voice) ... Creature Voice
My Generation G... G... Gap (2003) (voice) ... Porky Pig
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003/II) (VG) (voice)
I-Ninja (2003) (VG) (voice) ... I-Ninja
Museum Scream (2003) (voice) ... Tweety
Crash Nitro Kart (2003) (VG) (voice) ... Nash, Zam
Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) (voice) ... Elmer Fudd/Peter Lorre
... aka Looney Tunes Back in Action: The Movie (2003) (USA: DVD box title)
Looney Tunes: Reality Check (2003) (V) (voice) ... Elmer Fudd
Looney Tunes: Stranger Than Fiction (2003) (V) (voice) ... Elmer Fudd
Futurama (2003) (VG) (voice) ... Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, Dr. John Zoidberg
... aka Futurama: The Game (2003) (VG) (UK: promotional title)
Evil Dead: A Fistful of Boomstick (2003) (VG) (voice)
... aka Evil Dead 2 (2003) (VG)
... aka Evil Dead V (2003) (VG) (USA: informal alternative title)
Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc (2003) (VG) (voice) ... Murfy
Scorpion King: Rise of the Akkadian, The (2002) (VG) (voice) ... Magus, Ptah
... aka Scorpion King, The (2002/II) (VG) (USA: short title)
Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly (2002) (VG) (voice) ... Additional Voices
Taz Wanted (2002) (VG) (voice) ... Elmer Fudd
Super Santa in Vegetation (2002) (TV) (voice) ... Dr. Miranda, Kid, Potato
Tom and Jerry: The Magic Ring (2002) (V) (voice) ... Freddie
Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) (voice) ... Poultra/Girl Eating Plant/Oyster/Yokian Officer/Jailbreak Cop/Guard/Robobarber/Anchor Boy/Old Man Johnson/Flurp Announcer/Bobby's Twin Brother/Butch
Mad Dash Racing (2001) (VG) (voice)
Cats & Dogs (2001) (voice) ... Ninja Cat (Devon Rex)
"Oblongs..., The" (2001) TV Series (voice) ... George Klimer/Anita Bidet/James/Additional Voices
... aka "Oblongs, The" (2001) (USA)
"Invader ZIM" (2001) TV Series (voice) ... Invader ZIM (pilot episode)
Stupid Invaders (2001) (VG) (voice) ... Bolok
Forgotten Realms: Baldur's Gate II - Shadows of Amn (2000) (VG) (voice) ... Lehtinan/Lord Skarmaen/Higgold
Wacky Races (2000) (VG) (voice) ... Muttley/L'il Gruesome
Looney Tunes: Space Race (2000) (VG) (voice) ... Bugs Bunny/Pepe Le Pew/Elmer Fudd
Looney Tunes Racing (2000) (VG) (voice) ... Bugs Bunny/Pepe Le Pew/Elmer Fudd
Rugrats in Paris: The Movie - Rugrats II (2000) (voice) ... Sumo Singer
... aka Rugrats in Paris - Der Film (2001) (Germany)
... aka Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) (USA: short title)
Dinosaur (2000) (voice) ... Additional Voices
"Poochini's Yard" (2000) TV Series (voice) ... Poochini, Walter White, Mr. Garvey, Lockjaw
... aka "Poochini" (2000) (USA: syndication title)

"Detention" (1999) TV Series (voice) ... Emmitt Roswell
Matwix, The (1999) (VG) (voice) (uncredited) ... Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Angent Smithos
"New Woody Woodpecker Show, The" (1999) TV Series (voice) ... Woody Woodpecker/Wally Walrus/Smedley
"Queer Duck" (1999) TV Series (voice) ... Bi-Polar Bear
Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) (TV) (voice) ... Mr. Eskimo
Gabriel Knight: Blood of the Sacred, Blood of the Damned (1999) (VG) (voice) ... Emilio Baza/Vampire 1
Bugs Bunny: Lost In Time (1999) (VG) (voice) ... Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd/Additional Voices
"Futurama" (1999) TV Series (voice) ... Philip J. Fry/Prof. Hubert J. Farnsworth/Dr. Zoidberg/Zapp Brannigan/Leo Wong/Smitty/President Richard Nixon's Head/Additional Voices
"Histeria!" (1998) TV Series (voice) ... Confucious/Benjamin Franklin/Additional Voices
Junkyard Run, The (1998) (VG) (voice) (uncredited) ... Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd
"Magician, The" (1998) TV Series (voice) ... Cosmo Cooper
"Toonsylvania" (1998) TV Series (voice)
... aka "Steven Spielberg Presents Toonsylvania" (1998)
Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) (V) (voice) ... Norville 'Shaggy' Rogers
"Voltron: The Third Dimension" (1998) TV Series (voice) ... Pidge
"CatDog" (1998) TV Series (voice) ... Rancid Rabitt/Mr Sunshine/Randolph
Escape From Atlantis (1998) (TV) ... Voice Characterizations
"Extreme Ghostbusters" (1997) TV Series (voice) ... Slimer/Mayor McShane
"Wacky World of Tex Avery, The" (1997) TV Series (voice) ... Tex Avery, Freddy the Fly, Sagebrush Kid
"Weird Al Show, The" (1997) TV Series (voice) ... Announcer/Various characters
"Jumanji" (1996) TV Series (voice) ... Additional Voices/Monkey (I)
"Project G.e.e.K.e.R." (1996) TV Series (voice) ... Geeker
Space Jam (1996) (voice) ... Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd
Joe's Apartment (1996) (voice) ... Ralph Roach
Phobophilia: The Love of Fear (1995) (TV) (voice)
... aka Penn & Teller Phobophilia: The Love of Fear (1995) (TV) (USA: complete title)
Ren & Stimpy: Stimpy's Invention (1993) (VG) (voice) (uncredited) ... Stimpson J. "Stimpy" Cat
"Ren & Stimpy Show, The" (1991) TV Series (voice) ... Stimpson J. "Stimpy" Cat (1991-1996)/Ren Höek (1992-1996)/Mr. Horse (1992-1996)/Svën Höek (1992)/"hey, It's That Guy" (1991-1995)/Mr. Pipe (1991-1993)/Others (1991-1996)
... aka "VH-1 Ren and Stimpy Rocks" (1991) (USA: cable TV title)
"Doug" (1991) TV Series (voice) ... Douglas 'Doug' Yancy Funnie/Roger M. Klotz

Reading through that, I see he was on a few shows I watched in primary school, I was pretty shocked to see he played Rancid Rabbit on Catdog! I was also pretty stunned to see he did voices on Baldurs Gate 2, a game I used to play alot!
See, that's how good and varied his voices are, you can never tell it's him! The only voice that sounds remotely like him is Fry's in which he said he based Fry on a 25 year old him!

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A little belated, but I indeed agree that Billy West is a voice actor genius! He is quite a bit weird/eccentric in interviews though. Not that unexpected though. Very Happy

He will do a voice-over role and then you realize "Holy crap, that was him!"
He is very good a drastically changing his voice. A good trait of any voice actor.

posted by volonteshiva

posted by Lexx

"This is Billy West and you know the rest"
- B. West

posted by Pawnatron

Billy West is my hero.

He's definately got a quirky personality...but what do you expect? most voice over artists (and comedians, because he was a comedian aswell) have that whole ADHD thing going on.

And, for the record, I find him rather attractive for a 50+ year old man. Thumb Up

not that it matters or anything.

posted by Ethereal

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