Hank Azaria's Main TV Roles Show Character(s) The Simpsons Maggie Simp… Chief Wiggum Moe Szyslak Carl Carlson Apu Comic Book … Superintend… Kirk Van Ho… Prof. Frink Duffman Cletus Spuc… Larry Burns Friends David Spider-Man (1994) Venom Mad About You Nat Ostertag Free Agents Alex Huff Dr. Craig '… Herman's Head Jay Nichols Beethoven Killer the … If Not for You Craig Schae… Imagine That John Miller

Main Movie Roles 2010 - Love and Other Drugs 2009 - Year One 2009 - Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian 2007 - The Simpsons Movie 2007 - The Grand 2007 - Chicago 10 2005 - The Aristocrats 2004 - Along Came Polly 2004 - DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story 2003 - Shattered Glass 2001 - America's Sweethearts 1999 - Mystery, Alaska 1999 - Mystery Men 1998 - Godzilla 1998 - Great Expectations 1998 - Homegrown 1998 - Celebrity 1997 - Anastasia 1997 - Grosse Pointe Blank 1996 - The Birdcage 1995 - Now and Then 1995 - Heat 1994 - Quiz Show 1990 - Pretty Woman

BIOGRAPHY:

Hank Azaria is an American film, television and stage actor, director, and comedian. He is noted for being one of the principal voice actors on the animated television series The Simpsons.


TRIVIA:

• Was a camper at the real life Camp Towanda, where the movie _Wet Hot American Summer (2001)_ (qv) was filmed.
• Based the voice of Apu (in _"The Simpsons" (1989)_ (qv)) on the "standard" 7-11 employee and on 'Peter Sellers' (qv)' character Hrundi V. Bakshi in _The Party (1968)_ (qv).
• Both sets of his grandparents came from Salonika in northern Greece.
• He is close friends with actor 'Matthew Perry (I)' (qv).
• Attended college with 'Oliver Platt' (qv); attended acting school with 'Sharon Stone (I)' (qv).
• Based the voice of Chief Wiggum (in _"The Simpsons" (1989)_ (qv)) on actor 'Edward G. Robinson (I)' (qv).
• Engaged to 'Helen Hunt (I)' (qv) in 1997.
• Was a bartender in New York at the Arcadia.