. . . . . . . . . . . . . "1952-04-16"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "as Slimer"@en . . . . "1952-04-16"^^ . . . . "Billy West is a noted voice actor, who has starred on several shows including Ren and Stimpy and Futurama. He has appeared in Drawn Together four times."@en . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor. He launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN shortly after moving on to do the revival of Beany and Cecil and was also a castmember on The Howard Stern Show during the early to mid 1990s. As well as a voice artist, West is also a guitarist and singer-songwriter with a band called Billy West and The Grief Counselors."@en . . . . . . "Violet West"@en . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer and comedian best known for his voice-work in a number of television shows, films and commercials. Among the hundreds of other voice performances, his roles on Futurama of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan are considered standouts. Billy has an unspecified voice credit in \"Death Has a Shadow\"."@en . . . . . . . . "Voice actor"@en . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West is an American voice artist and comedian. His many well known roles include Philip J. Fry and other charactes in Futurama, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz in Doug and the title characters in The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as in a number of commercials and voicing cartoon characters such as Elmer Fudd and Woody Woodpecker. He voices Grendel and several additional characters in Disney's Animated Myths and Legends. He also appears in The Quest for Beasts as several additional characters, such as dimwitted bully Chris Gallagher, Oliver and Company:The Series as additional characters and in Disney's Animated Tales of Shakespeare as Fleance and several additional characters, as well as in Animated Historical Heroes as several additional characters, such as John F. Kennedy."@en . . . . "William Richard West (born April 16, 1952) is an American actor who played Rocket Racoon on the Ultimate Spider-Man episode \"Guardians of the Galaxy\"."@en . "1950-04-16"^^ . . "4"^^ . . "Singer"@en . "Brown"@en . . . . . "Doug"@en . . . "Billy West is a noted voice actor, who has starred on several shows including Ren and Stimpy and Futurama. He has appeared in Drawn Together four times."@en . . . . "Billy West is an Actor the played Matthew have same voice of Rancid Rabbit in CatDog"@en . . . "Norville \"Shaggy\" Rogers Voice"@en . . . . . . . . "Voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, songwriter, radio personality"@en . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (nacido el 16 de abril 1950) es un actor de voz estadounidense. \u00C9l prest\u00F3 su voz thumb|210px para varios personajes"@es . . "Billy West is an actor he does the voice of Curious George, Gnasher, Gnipper and Winston in the 1963 TV show, The Beano"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Detroit, Michigan"@en . "Detroit, Michigan"@en . "Violet West"@en . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician and radio personality. He provided the voice for many characters on Futurama."@en . . . . . . . . . . "Billy West on a panel for Futurama at the 2010 Comic Con in San Diego, California."@en . . "Billy West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, songwriter and radio personality who is best known for voicing Dr. Caliostro, Dr. Exceter, Pimon, Sharla, NASA scientist, and Julian DewBerry in Timon & Pumbaa."@en . "He occasionally voices Bugs Bunny in projects such as Space Jam and can currently be heard as Elmer Fudd on The Looney Tunes Show. After Don Messick died in 1997, some new Tiny Toons video games were in development, some of which included Hamton as a character. Billy replaced Don for the PlayStation game Toonenstein: Dare to Scare and the ultimately cancelled Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe."@en . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born on April 16th, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian and musician who is best know for his roles on The Ren & Stimpy Show, M&M's commercials and Futurama. Initially, he was going to voice Ren and Stimpy, but they decided that two voices was too much for him, so he voiced the latter instead; after John Kricfalusi left, he voiced both of them as was originally planned. He wrote an episode in the show, which was Ol' Blue Nose."@en . "1980"^^ . . . . . "16"^^ . "1952-04-16"^^ . . . "He voices Fry, Zoidberg, and Zapp Branigan from Futurama, Stimpy (and occasionally Ren) from The Ren & Stimpy Show, Larry on Pinky and the Brain, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Nickelodeon's Doug, and Elmer Fudd on The Looney Tunes Show."@en . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (nacido el 16 de abril 1950) es un actor de voz estadounidense. \u00C9l prest\u00F3 su voz thumb|210px para varios personajes"@es . . . . . . . . . . "He was the voice of Popeye in Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy."@en . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, singer and comedian. His voice roles include Doug Funnie on Nickelodeon's Doug, Fry on Futurama (also starring John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr and Lauren Tom), and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd on Looney Tunes productions, including Space Jam. West became the second actor to voice Shaggy Rogers after Casey Kasem quit the role in 1995; after only one performance in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, he left the role and was in turn succeeded by Scott Innes (who was already voicing Scooby-Doo)."@en . . . . . . . . . . . "Billy West is the voice talent of Slimer in Extreme Ghostbusters. He voiced the latter half of the title characters from The Ren and Stimpy Show, Roger Klotz from Doug, the title character from Project GeeKeR, and now he plays Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, all from Futurama."@en . . . . . "Put this guy in a room, give him a script and a mike and you can do a complete show with 20+ individual voices. In Futurama alone, he is Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth , Zapp Brannigan, Nixon and half of any background/supporting characters you see, and Zoidberg. The role of Zapp Brannigan was originally intended for Phil Hartman but after Hartman's death, Billy West stepped in and did an amazingly good impersonation of Phil Hartman in full-on smug mode. West is an outspoken critic of Celebrity Voice Actors. He also suffers from depression and had an abusive alcoholic for a father."@en . . "Detroit, Michigan, U.S."@en . "2"^^ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "1952-04-16"^^ . "He voices some of the main characters from Futurama, including Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg. He also voiced Zoidberg in The Simpsons Game."@en . . . . . . . . . "Billy West on a panel for Futurama at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego."@en . . "518400.0"^^ . "William Richard West (born April 16, 1952) is an American actor who played Rocket Racoon on the Ultimate Spider-Man episode \"Guardians of the Galaxy\"."@en . "as Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz"@en . "1952-04-16"^^ . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) voiced Officer Wilson."@en . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer and comedian best known for his voice-work in a number of television shows, films and commercials. Among the hundreds of other voice performances, his roles on Futurama of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan are considered standouts. Billy has an unspecified voice credit in \"Death Has a Shadow\"."@en . "Actor"@en . . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, singer and comedian. His voice roles include Doug Funnie on Nickelodeon's Doug, Fry on Futurama (also starring John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr and Lauren Tom), and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd on Looney Tunes productions, including Space Jam. West became the second actor to voice Shaggy Rogers after Casey Kasem quit the role in 1995; after only one performance in Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island, he left the role and was in turn succeeded by Scott Innes (who was already voicing Scooby-Doo)."@en . "Billy West is the voice talent of Slimer in Extreme Ghostbusters. He voiced the latter half of the title characters from The Ren and Stimpy Show, Roger Klotz from Doug, the title character from Project GeeKeR, and now he plays Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Doctor Zoidberg and Zapp Brannigan, all from Futurama."@en . . . . . "William Richard West"@en . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952; 65 years old) is an American voice actor with many very well-known roles to his name, including multiple prominent roles on Futurama (Fry, Zoidberg, Farnsworth, Zapp Branigan, among others), Booster Gold's robot companion Skeets in many forms of media, Elmer Fudd, and the Red M&M in M&M's candy commercials. He also voiced Slimer in Extreme Ghostbusters. West voiced the Jersey Devil and the TV reporter in TMNT."@en . . . "Voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, radio personality"@en . . . . "West provided the voices of Nash and Zam in Crash Nitro Kart as well as additional characters in Crash: Mind over Mutant. Outside of the Crash Bandicoot series, he is best known for providing the voices of Stimpy the Cat in The Ren and Stimpy Show (a role for which he was nominated for the Annie Award for \"Best Achievement for Voice Acting\" in 1994), Philip J. Fry (among other characters) in Futurama, Doug Funnie in Doug and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in various Looney Tunes-related films and video games."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Billy West is an actor he does the voice of Curious George, Gnasher, Gnipper and Winston in the 1963 TV show, The Beano"@en . . . "Billy West is an Actor the played Matthew have same voice of Rancid Rabbit in CatDog"@en . . "200"^^ . "as Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan"@en . . . . . . "1998"^^ . . . . . . . "1950-04-16"^^ . "Billy West"@en . "West, William Richard"@en . . . . . "Billy West Is A Voice Actor. In Skatoony He Voiced Some Characters"@en . . . . "Billy West"@es . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, comedian, and singer. Billy is best known foe his roles as Ren Hoek and Stimpson \"Stimpy\" J. Cat on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug; and Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama."@en . . "225"^^ . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West is an American voice artist and comedian. His many well known roles include Philip J. Fry and other charactes in Futurama, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz in Doug and the title characters in The Ren & Stimpy Show, as well as in a number of commercials and voicing cartoon characters such as Elmer Fudd and Woody Woodpecker. He voices Grendel and several additional characters in Disney's Animated Myths and Legends. He also appears in The Quest for Beasts as several additional characters, such as dimwitted bully Chris Gallagher, Oliver and Company:The Series as additional characters and in Disney's Animated Tales of Shakespeare as Fleance and several additional characters, as well as in Animated Historical Heroes as several additional characters, such as John F. Kenn"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "250"^^ . "Detroit, Michigan, USA"@en . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" Werstine (born April 16, 1952), known professionally as \"Billy West\", is an American voice actor, singer and comedian best known for his voice-over work in a number of television series, films and commercials. He has done hundreds of voice-overs in his career such as Ren H\u00F6ek (season 3 and onward) and Stimpson (Stimpy) J. Cat on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie, Porkchop, and Roger Klotz on Doug; Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and a number of others on Futurama. He also does voices for commercials and is the current voice of the red M&M and Buzz, the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee. In addition to his original voices, he has also voiced Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Shaggy Rogers, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker during later renditions of the respective characters. He was also a cast member on The Howard Stern Show, noted for his impersonation of The Three Stooges' Larry Fine."@en . . "William Richard West was born in Detroit and raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston. He played in several bands in the late 1960s and 1970s and began a radio career in 1980. He has been sober since the age of 35 and is a vegan."@en . . . . "Billy West"@en . . . . . "He voices some of the main characters from Futurama, including Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, and Dr. Zoidberg. He also voiced Zoidberg in The Simpsons Game."@en . . . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1950) is an American voice actor and comedian best known for his voice-work in a number of television shows, films and commercials, including the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and many other characters in Futurama. He guest starred as Blix, The British Official, Sam and Corky Shimazu in The Jerkinators!."@en . . "Billy West"@en . "On Animaniacs, he voiced Codger Eggbert on Hooray for North Hollywood."@en . . . "20"^^ . . . . . . . . "West provided the voices of Nash and Zam in Crash Nitro Kart as well as additional characters in Crash: Mind over Mutant. Outside of the Crash Bandicoot series, he is best known for providing the voices of Stimpy the Cat in The Ren and Stimpy Show (a role for which he was nominated for the Annie Award for \"Best Achievement for Voice Acting\" in 1994), Philip J. Fry (among other characters) in Futurama, Doug Funnie in Doug and Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd in various Looney Tunes-related films and video games."@en . . . . . "Futurama"@en . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, former songwriter, and former radio personality for The Howard Stern Show, best known for his wide vocal range and roles in Ren & Stimpy (initially as Stimpy, but was cast to be Ren when John Kricfalusi [the showrunner as well Ren's first voice actor] was fired by Nickelodeon), Doug (as the voice of the title character and his bully, Roger Klotz on the original Nickelodeon version; West was recast when Doug was revived as a Disney cartoon), and Futurama (as the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan [who was originally going to be voiced by Saturday Night Live cast member Phil Hartman, but Hartman was murdered before he was called in to record lines], Richard Nixon's head in a jar, Doctor John Zoidberg, and various one-shot and background characters. West is also one of many modern-day voice actors hired to voice Looney Tunes characters in modern-day Warner Bros. projects. West mostly voices Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd (replacing Mel Blanc and Arthur Q. Bryan), though in Toonenstein: Dare to Scare, he voiced Tiny Toon Adventures character, Hamton J. Pig, replacing Don Messick."@en . . . . . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1950) is an American voice actor and comedian best known for his voice-work in a number of television shows, films and commercials, including the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg and many other characters in Futurama. He guest starred as Blix, The British Official, Sam and Corky Shimazu in The Jerkinators!."@en . . . . "On Animaniacs, he voiced Codger Eggbert on Hooray for North Hollywood."@en . . . "Detroit, Michigan, United States"@en . . . . . . . "Detroit, Michigan"@en . . . . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, songwriter and former radio personality who is best known for his voice roles as the titular characters Ren H\u00F6ek (1993-1995) and Stimpy on the Nickelodeon animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show from 1991 to 1996, the titular character Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom Doug from 1991 to 1994, and as several characters, including Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, and Dr. John A. Zoidberg, on the Fox Broadcasting Company/Comedy Central animated sitcom Futurama from 1999 to 2013. He is also known for voicing the red milk chocolate-flavored M&M in the M&M's commercials. and Buzz the Bee in the Honey Nut Cheerios commercials. He's also known as the lead guitarist and singer of his band, Billy West and The Grief Counselors. West voices Ellyvan in the Playhouse Disney/Disney Junior series Jungle Junction, Rocket Raccoon in Ultimate Spider-Man, Bashful, Gnome King and Bingo in the Disney XD animated series The 7D, and Dr. Caliostro, Dr. Exceter, Pimon, NASA scientist, and Julian DewBerry in Timon & Pumbaa,Grimtrix in Sofia the First, and provided some addtional character voices in Dinosaur."@en . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born on April 16th, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian and musician who is best know for his roles on The Ren & Stimpy Show, M&M's commercials and Futurama. Initially, he was going to voice Ren and Stimpy, but they decided that two voices was too much for him, so he voiced the latter instead; after John Kricfalusi left, he voiced both of them as was originally planned. He wrote an episode in the show, which was Ol' Blue Nose."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Billy West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, songwriter and radio personality who is best known for voicing Dr. Caliostro, Dr. Exceter, Pimon, Sharla, NASA scientist, and Julian DewBerry in Timon & Pumbaa."@en . "He occasionally voices Bugs Bunny in projects such as Space Jam and can currently be heard as Elmer Fudd on The Looney Tunes Show. After Don Messick died in 1997, some new Tiny Toons video games were in development, some of which included Hamton as a character. Billy replaced Don for the PlayStation game Toonenstein: Dare to Scare and the ultimately cancelled Tiny Toon Adventures: Defenders of the Universe."@en . . . . . "William Richard West"@en . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor. He launched his career in the early 1980s performing daily comedic routines on Boston's WBCN shortly after moving on to do the revival of Beany and Cecil and was also a castmember on The Howard Stern Show during the early to mid 1990s. West is best known for his voice-work on Ren & Stimpy, Doug and Futurama. His favorite characters are Philip J. Fry (Futurama) and Stimpy (Ren and Stimpy), both of which he originated. West's most notable film work was in Space Jam (1996) providing the voice of both Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd; he has provided the same voices for other Looney Tunes films and video games. West has been very outspoken over his displeasure about the influx of movie star actors providing voice-over for films and major shows. As well as a voice artist, West is also a guitarist and singer-songwriter with a band called Billy West and The Grief Counselors."@en . "#091513"@en . "1952"^^ . "921942"^^ . . . . . . . . "Detroit, Michigan, United States"@en . . . "William Richard West"@en . . . . . . . . . . "Billy_West.jpg"@en . . . "as Stimpy and Ren"@en . . . "250"^^ . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician and radio personality. He provided the voice for many characters on Futurama."@en . . . . . . . . "Extreme Ghostbusters"@en . . . . "Put this guy in a room, give him a script and a mike and you can do a complete show with 20+ individual voices. In Futurama alone, he is Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert Farnsworth , Zapp Brannigan, Nixon and half of any background/supporting characters you see, and Zoidberg. The role of Zapp Brannigan was originally intended for Phil Hartman but after Hartman's death, Billy West stepped in and did an amazingly good impersonation of Phil Hartman in full-on smug mode. ...and all of this after he first came to public attention as the voice of both Ren and Stimpy after John Kricfalusi (the original voice of Ren) was fired. He (along with Joe Alaskey) has become one of few voice actors who can impersonate Mel Blanc in his prime, including characterizations of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and other characters from the Looney Tunes. He's also the Red M&M. Also, even before he was known for animation voicing, West worked in radio, and was actually a cast member of The Howard Stern Show from 1989-1995. West is an outspoken critic of Celebrity Voice Actors. He also suffers from depression and had an abusive alcoholic for a father. Not to be confused with the guy from The Adventures of Bayou Billy. His brother Mike voiced Fox McCloud in Star Fox 64 (but not in its 3DS remake)"@en . . . . . . . . . "Voice actor"@en . . . . "This is fictitious site for the infamous actor. For the actual actor, go here."@en . . . "Regular"@en . . . "Male"@en . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1950) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician and former radio personality who is best known for his voice-work on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug and Futurama, voicing multiple main characters on all three shows. On Ren & Stimpy, he was originally only the voice of Stimpy J. Cat. When series creator John Kricfalusi, who voiced Ren H\u00F6ek, was fired after various disputes with the network, West took over the role of Ren and Mr. Horse for the remainder of the Nickelodeon run. From the same series, West would voice the Gilded Yak in the video game Nicktoons MLB, released in 2011. Coincidentally, his successor as Stimpy, Eric Bauza, who voiced the character for Ren & Stimpy: \"Adult Party Cartoon\", reprised the role for the same video game. (It is unknown why West did not voice Stimpy or Ren in that game.) On Doug, he most prominently voiced the main character Doug Funnie and the bully Roger Klotz. He refused to reprise the roles when the series was revived by Disney. He also voiced Rancid Rabbit and Mr. Sunshine on CatDog. He was even the voice of Zim in the unaired Invader Zim pilot. His most recent recurring role in a Nickelodeon production was as the voice of Principal Razinski on My Life as a Teenage Robot. West voiced the character Moobeard in Moobeard the Cow Pirate, a short animation featured on Random! Cartoons."@en . . . . . . . . . "William Richard West was born in Detroit and raised in the Roslindale neighborhood of Boston. He played in several bands in the late 1960s and 1970s and began a radio career in 1980. He has been sober since the age of 35 and is a vegan."@en . . . . . . "1980"^^ . . "This is fictitious site for the infamous actor. For the actual actor, go here."@en . "Voice actor"@en . . "William Richard \"Billy\" Werstine (born April 16, 1952), known professionally as \"Billy West\", is an American voice actor, singer and comedian best known for his voice-over work in a number of television series, films and commercials. He has done hundreds of voice-overs in his career such as Ren H\u00F6ek (season 3 and onward) and Stimpson (Stimpy) J. Cat on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie, Porkchop, and Roger Klotz on Doug; Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp Brannigan, and a number of others on Futurama. He also does voices for commercials and is the current voice of the red M&M and Buzz, the Honey Nut Cheerios Bee. In addition to his original voices, he has also voiced Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Shaggy Rogers, Popeye, and Woody Woodpecker during later renditions of the res"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Birth place"@en . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, former songwriter, and former radio personality for The Howard Stern Show, best known for his wide vocal range and roles in Ren & Stimpy (initially as Stimpy, but was cast to be Ren when John Kricfalusi [the showrunner as well Ren's first voice actor] was fired by Nickelodeon), Doug (as the voice of the title character and his bully, Roger Klotz on the original Nickelodeon version; West was recast when Doug was revived as a Disney cartoon), and Futurama (as the voices of Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Zapp Brannigan [who was originally going to be voiced by Saturday Night Live cast member Phil Hartman, but Hartman was murdered before he was called in to record lines], Richard Ni"@en . . . . . . . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1950) is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician and former radio personality who is best known for his voice-work on The Ren & Stimpy Show, Doug and Futurama, voicing multiple main characters on all three shows. On Doug, he most prominently voiced the main character Doug Funnie and the bully Roger Klotz. He refused to reprise the roles when the series was revived by Disney. West voiced the character Moobeard in Moobeard the Cow Pirate, a short animation featured on Random! Cartoons."@en . "1952-04-16"^^ . . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor. He was the original voice of Zim in the Pilot episode of Invader Zim. He ultimately was replaced by Richard Horvitz due to Jhonen Vasquez's feelings that Billy's voice was too common and recognizable as one from shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show (where he voiced Stimpy, and after John Kricfalusi was fired by Nickelodeon, Ren), Doug (where he originally voiced Doug and Roger before the show was sold to Disney), CatDog, where he voiced Rancid Rabbit and Randolph Grant, and Futurama (where he voices Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan). He was one of two known people besides Richard Horvitz who had been considered for the role, the other being Mark Hamill. Vasquez ultimately chose Horvitz specifically because he wanted Zim to have an unusual and unique voice, and was familiar with Horvitz's work on Angry Beavers. When Horvitz was cast for the role, he was asked to do a test voice-over the video of the pilot, which had already been animated to match Billy West's track extant in the final product."@en . "Billy West is an American voice actor the voice of Checkers"@en . . "Billy West is an American voice actor. He was the original voice of Zim in the Pilot episode of Invader Zim. He ultimately was replaced by Richard Horvitz due to Jhonen Vasquez's feelings that Billy's voice was too common and recognizable as one from shows such as The Ren and Stimpy Show (where he voiced Stimpy, and after John Kricfalusi was fired by Nickelodeon, Ren), Doug (where he originally voiced Doug and Roger before the show was sold to Disney), CatDog, where he voiced Rancid Rabbit and Randolph Grant, and Futurama (where he voices Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, and Zapp Brannigan). He was one of two known people besides Richard Horvitz who had been considered for the role, the other being Mark Hamill. Vasquez ultimately chose Horvitz specifically because he want"@en . . . "1952-04-16"^^ . . . . . . . "William Richard West"@en . . . . "Billy West Is A Voice Actor. In Skatoony He Voiced Some Characters"@en . . . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, comedian, and singer. Billy is best known foe his roles as Ren Hoek and Stimpson \"Stimpy\" J. Cat on The Ren & Stimpy Show; Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Doug; and Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg on Futurama."@en . "61"^^ . . "thumb|250px|Este es Billy WestRichard William West, o mejor conocido como Billy West, es un actor de voz estadounidense (nacido el 16 de Abril de 1950 en Detroit, M\u00EDchigan) conocido por ser la voz de Philip J. Fry en \"Futurama\""@es . "Ren & Stimpy"@en . . "Voice Actor"@en . "Billy West is an American voice actor the voice of Checkers"@en . . . . . "Billy West is an American voice actor, singer, comedian, musician, songwriter and former radio personality who is best known for his voice roles as the titular characters Ren H\u00F6ek (1993-1995) and Stimpy on the Nickelodeon animated series The Ren & Stimpy Show from 1991 to 1996, the titular character Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on the Nickelodeon animated sitcom Doug from 1991 to 1994, and as several characters, including Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, and Dr. John A. Zoidberg, on the Fox Broadcasting Company/Comedy Central animated sitcom Futurama from 1999 to 2013. He is also known for voicing the red milk chocolate-flavored M&M in the M&M's commercials. and Buzz the Bee in the Honey Nut Cheerios commercials. He's also known as the lead guitarist and singer of his band, Bi"@en . . . . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952) voiced Officer Wilson."@en . . . . "He was the voice of Popeye in Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy."@en . . . . . "1980"^^ . . "Years active"@en . . . . . . . . "Birth date"@en . "Billy West"@en . . . "1980"^^ . "William Richard \"Billy\" West (born April 16, 1952; 65 years old) is an American voice actor with many very well-known roles to his name, including multiple prominent roles on Futurama (Fry, Zoidberg, Farnsworth, Zapp Branigan, among others), Booster Gold's robot companion Skeets in many forms of media, Elmer Fudd, and the Red M&M in M&M's candy commercials. He also voiced Slimer in Extreme Ghostbusters. West voiced the Jersey Devil and the TV reporter in TMNT."@en . . . "He voices Fry, Zoidberg, and Zapp Branigan from Futurama, Stimpy (and occasionally Ren) from The Ren & Stimpy Show, Larry on Pinky and the Brain, Doug Funnie and Roger Klotz on Nickelodeon's Doug, and Elmer Fudd on The Looney Tunes Show."@en . "Comedian"@en . . "1988"^^ . . . . . . . . "West, Billy"@en . "1980"^^ . . . . . "as Mr. Whiskers and Gaspar LeGecko"@en . . . . "Brandy and Mr. Whiskers"@en . . . "thumb|250px|Este es Billy WestRichard William West, o mejor conocido como Billy West, es un actor de voz estadounidense (nacido el 16 de Abril de 1950 en Detroit, M\u00EDchigan) conocido por ser la voz de Philip J. Fry en \"Futurama\""@es . . .