# Faces of "Simpsons" actors **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 18, 2000, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383 "2000-10-18T09:25:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Major\_Feelgud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@Major\_Feelgud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Major_Feelgud)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/1 "2000-10-18T09:25:31Z")
I just bought this weeks TV Guide with the Simpsons covers. I used to be a big fan of it. Having read the article, I’m intrigued. Apart from Hank Azaria, I’ve never seen photos of any of the other actors. Is there a website showing them? ---
**Author:** ![Biffer\_Spice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@Biffer\_Spice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffer_Spice)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/2 "2000-10-18T09:48:11Z")
[http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/dan.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/dan.html) [http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/julie.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/julie.html) [http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/hank.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/hank.html) [http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/harry.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/harry.html) [http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/nancy.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/nancy.html) [http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/yeardley.html](http://www.labyrinth.net.au/~kwyjibo/cast/yeardley.html) These links should take you there… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/3 "2000-10-18T09:56:55Z")
Well, Yeardley Smith (voice of Lisa) has been in many movies. Recently she played Simon’s friend, Jackie, in _As Good as it Gets_. You can see a picture of Nancy Cartwright (voice of Bart and others) [here](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Cartwright,+Nancy). Harry Shearer (voice of Mr. Burns and others) was in _This is Spinal Tap_ and you can see a pic of him [here](http://us.imdb.com/PGallery?Shearer,+Harry). Julie Kavner (voice of Marge and others) was Brenda Morgenstern on “Rhoda” and she has been in several movies. Of course, you’ve seen Phil hartman who did several voices. I have been unable to find a picture of Dan Castellaneta (Homer and others). ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/4 "2000-10-18T09:57:57Z")
Or, of course, you could just follow Biffer Spice’s links… ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/5 "2000-10-18T13:37:02Z")
Dan Castellaneta was on an episode of “Friends”; he played the zoo janitor that told Ross where his monkey was. He was the client to whom Danny Devito told the story of Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner in “The War of the Roses.” He was a regular on “The Tracey Ullman Show.” Nancy Cartwright’s pic is at the IMDB. Yeardley Smith was the secretary on “Herman’s Head.” She was also Greg’s secretary on the first season of “Darma and Greg.” She was the cashier that Daniel Stern got pregnant in “City Slickers.” She was the annoying newlywed in “Maximum Overdrive.” Hank Azaria was Nat the dogwalker on “Mad About You.” He was Animal the cameraman in the 1998 “Godzilla.” He was one of the rogue CIA agents trying to kill John Cusack in “Grosse Pointe Blank.” He was the shoeless cuban butler in “The Birdcage.” He was the Blue Raja in “Mystery Men.” His pic is also at the IMDB. Harry Shearer’s been everywhere. Surely you remember him from his days on SNL? And as Derek Smalls in “This is Spinal Tap”? Marcia Wallace (Mrs. Krapappel) was Carol the receptionist on “The Bob Newhart Show.” Tress McNellie (Jimbo Jones, Mrs. Skinner, etc) mostly does voicework, especially for Warner Bros. animation. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 1:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/6 "2000-10-18T13:54:12Z")
From the above link: > [@](#): > > Nancy Cartwright, Scientologist and mother of two… arrrrrrggggghhhhhhh! I feel so dirty all of a sudden. ---
**Author:** ![conway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ec9cab/32.png) [@conway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/conway)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/7 "2000-10-18T14:33:44Z")
Why? You have something against kids? ---
**Author:** ![TampaFlyer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@TampaFlyer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TampaFlyer)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/8 "2000-10-18T21:13:36Z")
Dan Castellaneta also did an episode of L.A. Law, playing a guy who worked at a theme park in a Homer Simpson costume. He got fired for taking off his Homer head (while not backstage) because he was getting sick. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/9 "2000-10-18T21:59:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Guy Propski \* > **Dan Castellaneta … was a regular on "The Tracey Ullman Show."** As was Julie Kavner. I think Castellaneta and Kavner were the most talented on the show (Ms Ullman herself a close 3rd). ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/10 "2000-10-18T23:46:18Z")
Castellana was on the Magic Door? That brings back strange memories. I never quite understood what was going on in that show, though I did learn a little Hebrew. ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [October 18, 2000, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/11 "2000-10-18T23:58:33Z")
Wasn’t Julie Kavner also Rhoda’s sister? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/12 "2000-10-19T04:58:31Z")
I first saw Yeardley Smith in Mathnet on Square One, but she is mostly memorable from ‘Herman’s Head’ which is where I first saw Hank Azaria. (he, of course, is now very recognisable, especially after ‘Godzilla’, ‘Mystery Men’, and being partnered with Helen Hunt and thereafter getting a guest role in ‘Mad About You’) I knew Dan Castellaneta I knew from ‘Tracey Ullman’, and Julie Kavner is unmistakable anywhere, but she also co-starred in ‘Tracey Ullman’. Which, of course, is where ‘The Simpsons’ got its start, so that all makes sense. I didn’t grow up with ‘Saturday Night Live’, of course, so I didn’t really know Harry Shearer, though I did recognise him. I know Michael McKean, however, so the ‘Spinal Tap’ connection to him all kind of melded together. And Nancy Cartwright also voiced a character on ‘The Snorks’ with a slightly more effeminate Bart voice. She had a guest role on ‘Godzilla’ too, by the way. She played the secretary on the phone who sees Godzilla go past the window behind the ignorant Harry Shearer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![curwin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@curwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curwin)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/13 "2000-10-19T06:40:26Z")
I once saw this strange movie on TV where Nancy Cartwright played a teenage girl. The one thing I remember is she slapped her parent in the face. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2000, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/14 "2000-10-19T14:40:34Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by TampaFlyer \* > \*\*Dan Castellaneta also did an episode of L.A. Law, playing a guy who worked at a theme park in a Homer Simpson costume. He got fired for taking off his Homer head (while not backstage) because he was getting sick. \*\* He also played a gay undertaker on a “Married With Children” episode, and a mule skinner western town type guy on another episode. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2000, 1:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/faces-of-simpsons-actors/37383/15 "2000-10-20T13:21:55Z")
And Phil Hartman was on an episode of the first season of Third Rock from the Sun playing a gay cosmetic salesman waiting on Harry. His best line was when Harry mentioned his “High Commander”: I used to be in a relationship like that. I understand Phil & French become friends. Of course, his last performance was also on Third Rock ☹