Dan Castellaneta is one of the most popular and richest Voice Actor who was born on October 29, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. The voice that is most well-known is his voice for Homer Simpson, he’s also voiced other well-known Simpsons characters, such as Grampa, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown as well as Mayor Quimby.
Both he as well as He and Hank Azaria both voice an array of characters on The Simpsons. both play a variety of characters in The Simpsons.
Daniel Louis Castellaneta (/ˌ k æ s t əl ə ˈ n ɛ t ə / ; born October 29, 1957) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter. Castellaneta is best known for voicing Homer Simpson on the Fox Broadcasting Company animated series The Simpsons. His other roles on the show include Abraham “Grampa” Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Sideshow Mel, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman. Castellaneta also had roles in several other programs, including Futurama for Fox Broadcasting Company, Sibs and Darkwing Duck for ABC, The Adventures of Dynamo Duck for Fox Kids, Back to the Future: The Animated Series for CBS, Aladdin for Toon Disney, Taz-Mania for Warner Bros. Animation and in Hey Arnold! as Grandpa Phil for Nickelodeon. He also occasionally guest stars on shows like Friends and How I Met Your Mother.
Castellaneta also provides the voices for numerous other characters, including Grampa Simpson, Barney Gumble, Krusty the Clown, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby, Hans Moleman, Sideshow Mel, Itchy, Kodos, Arnie Pye, the Squeaky Voiced Teen and Gil Gunderson. Krusty’s voice is based on Chicago television’s Bob Bell, who had a very raspy voice and portrayed WGN-TV’s Bozo the Clown from 1960 to 1984. Barney’s trademark is a loud belch. During early recording sessions for the show, he recorded a new version of the belch for every episode but discovered that it was not easy for him to do it every time a script called for it. Castellaneta chose a recording of what he believed was his best belch and told the producers to make that the standard. Groundskeeper Willie’s first appearance was in the season two episode “Principal Charming”. The character was written as an angry janitor and Castellaneta was assigned to perform the voice. He did not know what voice to use and Sam Simon, who was directing at the time, suggested he use an accent.
He got married to Deb Lacusta in 1987.
