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Dan Castellaneta

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Dan Castellaneta

b. 1957

American actor (born 1957)

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Biography

Daniel Louis Castellaneta is an American actor. He is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the animated series The Simpsons, as well as other characters on the show such as Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Sideshow Mel, Mr. Teeny, Kodos, Itchy, Santa's Little Helper, and Barney Gumble. Castellaneta is also known for voicing Grandpa Phil in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!, and has had voice roles in several other programs, including Futurama, Sibs, Darkwing Duck, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, The Batman, Back to the Future: The Animated Series, Aladdin, Earthworm Jim, and Taz-Mania.

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Timeline

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1957 Birth

Born on Chicago's south side and raised in River Forest, Illinois. His father was Italian-American. Studied theater at Northern Illinois University.

1987 Life

Began voicing Homer Simpson on The Tracey Ullman Show short segments. The character started as a Walter Matthau impression and evolved from there.

1989 Event

The Simpsons premiered as a half-hour series on Fox. Castellaneta voiced Homer, Grampa Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Barney Gumble, Mayor Quimby, and dozens more characters.

1992 Event

Won his first Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance. He'd win four in total. "D'oh" was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2001.

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Simpsons Comics Extravaganza

Presents eight Simpsons stories featuring the Simpsons, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Bob, Mr. Burns, and Smithers.

1994

psych[ed] [the opponents] out, big time.

Andretti maintained the fiction for many years. In 2016, he admitted that the story was fabricated. He recalled that it "psych[ed] [the opponents] out, big time." === Single-seater racing...

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being just mesmerized, overwhelmed by the sound, by the speed.

etti saw Ascari race against Juan Manuel Fangio. Although the twins did not have a grandstand seat, Andretti recalled "being just mesmerized, overwhelmed by the sound, by the speed." === Move to the...

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you just bought the ticket to the big time.

tracks, an afternoon race at Flemington and a doubleheader at Hatfield, after which reporter Chris Economaki told him that "you just bought the ticket to the big time." From midget cars, the next step...

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the only passion [he] really had career wise,

the sport was extremely dangerous at the time. Andretti planned to become a welder, but racing was "the only passion [he] really had career wise," and he admitted that he might not have been able to...

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there are many reasons why our operation fell apart. ... Racing relationships ar...

"we had our disagreements, but until things started turning sour near the end, we worked them out." He added that "there are many reasons why our operation fell apart. ... Racing relationships are...

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The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to l...

After moving to Lucca, the brothers got a job parking cars at a local garage. In his autobiography, Andretti wrote, "The first time I fired up a car, felt the engine shudder and the wheel come to life...

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we had our disagreements, but until things started turning sour near the end, we...

ndretti forced out Brawner, which Andretti denied. In his foreword to Brawner's 1975 autobiography, Andretti wrote that "we had our disagreements, but until things started turning sour near the end,...

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The Tracey Ullman Show (television Program): Kay Babysits

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