Creator / Hank Azaria

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Henry Albert "Hank" Azaria (born April 25, 1964) is an American actor and comedian. Ever since 1990, he has voiced many secondary characters from The Simpsons, (the Curtain Call at the end of The Simpsons Movie credits him for more characters than any of the other actors, with a whopping ten roles!) and has done several other notable roles.

Much like Dan Castellaneta and Harry Shearer, Azaria voices a lot of male characters that aren't voiced by other voice actors (like Phil Hartman, Karl Weidergott, Chris Edgerly, or any of the female voice actors who play boy characters) or a celebrity guest star. From The Simpsons alone, he notably voices:

• Miserable, suicidal, Jerkass bartender Moe Szyslak
• Surfer Dude career criminal Snake Jailbird
• Fat, incompetent town cop Chief Clancy Wiggum
• Indian Kwik-E-Mart clerk Apu Nahasapeemapetilon^note until 2020 when the character was retired due to controversy over white voice actors playing non-white characters
• The "Sarcastic Middle Aged Clerk" who sounds like Charles Bronson (his real name is said to be Raphael, according to the season 12 episode "Day of the Jackanapes")
• Smug, fat nerd/Android Dungeon store owner Jeff Albertson (better known as Comic Book Guy)^note his Bordertown character, Bud Buckwald, sounds like a dumber, less smug version of him
• Milhouse's loser father, Kirk van Houten
• Homer's Token Black friend, Carl Carlson^note until season 32, when he was replaced by Alex Desert
• The replacement voice for Akira, the Japanese sushi restauranteur and, in season three's "When Flanders Failed," a karate teacher^note George Takei was originally the voice of Akira on his premiere episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish" — the season two episode where Homer fears he's going to die after eating Japanese blowfish that may not have been cut properly
• Duff Beer's macho mascot, Duffman
• Refugee from Time eternally stuck in the '70s, Disco Stu^note Originally, Phil Hartman was supposed to play Stu, but when the animators needed to do a model change, Hartman was unavailable, so Azaria took the part. Which is fortunate, given that after Hartman's death in 1998, his Simpsons characters, Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz, were retired from the show out of respect.
• Not-actually-qualified sea captain Horatio Macallister
• Cheerful and affordable quack doctor Dr. Nick Riviera
• Principal Skinner's uptight superior Superintendent Gary Chalmers
• Stereotypically Italian chef Luigi Risotto
• Slapstick-prone El Chapulín Colorado parody Bumblebee Man^note until Season 32, when he was replaced by Eric Lopez
• Camp Gay Latino Julio Franco^note until Season 32, when he was replaced by Tony Rodriguez
• Resident Mad Scientist and Jerry Lewis imitator Professor John Frink
• The Alter Kocker friend of Grampa Simpson known only as the "Old Jewish Man"
• Mike Tyson caricature Drederick Tatum^note until Season 32, when he was replaced by Jay Pharoah
• Slack-jawed yokel Cletus Spuckler
• Chief Wiggum's far more competent retainer Lou^note until season 32, when he was replaced by Alex Desert
• And many, many, many more minor instances.

He also voiced Edward Brock/Venom in Spider-Man: The Animated Series, Bartok the bat in Anastasia^note and its Direct to Video prequel Bartok the Magnificent, and Harold Zoid in Futurama^note Dr. Zoidberg's washed-up uncle and silent hologram star, using his "Old Jewish Man" voice from The Simpsons, and Bud Buckwall on Bordertown.

On the side of live action appearances, Azaria's has performed in more diverse roles, which include:

• Jay Nichols in Herman's Head, which he considers an Old Shame, along with fellow Simpsons voice actress Yeardley Smith^note the voice of Lisa Simpson and any Lisa-like character, such as the Pacific Islander girl "Lisa, Jr." on "Missionary: Impossible"
• Nat the Dog Walker in Mad About You
• Phoebe's scientist boyfriend David on Friends
• Alan Marciano in Heat; perhaps best known as the slimeball surprised by Al Pacino's improvised "Cause she got a GREAT ASS!" bit.
• Agador the houseboy in The Birdcage
• Dr. Craig "Huff" Huffstodt in Huff
• Journalist/editor Michael Kelly in Shattered Glass
• Kahmunrah and the Abraham Lincoln Memorial Statue in Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
• Simon Pegg's Jerk Jock nemesis Whit in Run Fatboy Run.
• The Blue Rajah in Mystery Men
• Gargamel in The Smurfs and The Smurfs 2
• Ed Cochran in Ray Donovan
• Victor "The Animal" Palotti (AKA the cameraman who almost got squished by Zilla) in Godzilla (1998)
• The titular character on Brockmire
• Frank DiPascali, Bernie Madoff's chief minion, in The Wizard of Lies
• Tim Cook in Super Pumped The Battle for Uber
• Eddie in Hello Tomorrow!

Both in appearance and through his seemingly endless repertoire of exotic accents, he's actually an American Sephardic Jew (Sephardic Jews are the ones who can trace their ancestry from the Iberian peninsula [the peninsula containing Spain and Portugal] to the north part of Africa. Contrast that with Ashkenazi Jews, whose lineage is in Central and Eastern Europe).

Also notably provided the Trope Namer quote for Idiot Ball.

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