* 1957 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

In 2004, Kavner and Dan Castellaneta ( the voice of Homer ) won a Young Artist Award for " Most Popular Mom & Dad in a TV Series ".

* October 29 – Dan Castellaneta, American voice actor ( Homer Simpson from ' The Simpsons ')

Daniel Louis " Dan " Castellaneta ( born October 29, 1957 ) is an American actor, voice actor, comedian and screenwriter.

Show runner Mike Scully thought that Gil would be " a one-shot thing " but " Dan Castellaneta was so funny at the table read doing the character, we kept making up excuses in subsequent episodes to put him in.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared on television, along with the rest of his family, in The Tracey Ullman Show short " Good Night " on April 19, 1987.

While the roles of Homer and Marge were given to Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner because they were already a part of the Tracey Ullman Show cast, the producers decided to hold casting for the roles of Bart and Lisa.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and he is also the patriarch of the Simpson family, the father of Homer Simpson, and the grandfather of Bart, Lisa, and Maggie Simpson.

Grampa's voice is performed by Dan Castellaneta, who also voices numerous other characters, including Homer Simpson, Krusty the Clown, Barney Gumble, Groundskeeper Willie, Mayor Quimby and Hans Moleman.

" Dan Castellaneta has won two Primetime Emmy Awards in the Outstanding Voice-Over Performance category for voicing various characters, including Grampa.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, and first appeared in the episode " Principal Charming ".

Dan Castellaneta occasionally fills in for Shearer at table reads and voices Smithers.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Dan Castellaneta based his voice characterization on Chicago television's Bob Bell who had a very raspy voice and portrayed WGN-TV's Bozo the Clown from 1960 to 1984.

He is voiced by Dan Castellaneta, and first appeared in the episode " The Call of the Simpsons ".

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Quimby.

The character is voiced by Dan Castellaneta and first appeared in the series premiere episode " Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire ".

Dan Castellaneta, the voice of Barney.

Barney Gumble is voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

In a very brief appearance in the season 2 episode " Bart's Dog Gets an F ", Troy was voiced by Dan Castellaneta.

Cast member Dan Castellaneta currently provides the dog's sounds on the show, although voice artist Frank Welker has also voiced him.

Dan Castellaneta currently voices Santa's Little Helper.

Although cast member Dan Castellaneta occasionally voiced Santa's Little Helper for bit parts, American voice artist Frank Welker most often provided the sounds of the dog and other animals on the show from " Bart's Dog Gets an F ", which aired on March 7, 1991, to " Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily ", which aired on October 1, 1995.

* Montague Jetson, the kindly but eccentric grandfather of George Jetson who constantly annoys the cop every time he meets him — Howard Morris ; after Morris ' death: Dan Castellaneta

Among these are Pulitizer Prize winning author Ernest Hemingway, football hall-of-famer George Trafton, McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, city planner Walter Burley Griffin, comedian Kathy Griffin, and the voice of iconic cartoon character Homer Simpson, Dan Castellaneta.

Voices were needed for the shorts, so the producers decided to ask Kavner and fellow cast member Dan Castellaneta to voice Marge and Homer rather than hire more actors.

Other noteworthy artists who recorded for Emerson included John W. Myers, Henry Burr and The Peerless Quartet, Billy Golden, Collins & Harlan, Sally Hamlin, Dan Quinn, Sam Ash, Vernon Dalhart, Van & Schenk, Ada Jones, and Homer Rodeheaver.

Other work included on-camera guest appearances on such series as The Polly Bergen Show, as Homer Winch on The Beverly Hillbillies, The Virginian, The Lucy Show, Claude Wilbur on The Dick Van Dyke Show, Dan Raven, and The Brady Bunch, as well as a 1960 movie that included a compilation of Three Stooges shorts ( Stop !, Look and Laugh ), and a part in the Jerry Lewis movie Which Way to the Front ?.

He was replaced by Dan Castellaneta ( best known for voicing Homer Simpson ), who also voiced the Genie in the animated series as well as in Kingdom Hearts.

The title character, an " average worm " who stumbled upon a space suit which turned him into a superhero, became immensely popular, and spawned a variety of other types of merchandise: action figures, comic books, and a syndicated television cartoon series on the Warner Kids Network, with the title character voiced on the show by Dan Castellaneta ( also known as the voice behind Homer Simpson ).

Dan Castellaneta ( who does the voice of Homer Simpson ) appeared in a Homer costume and hired the attorneys in the seventh-season premiere.

Tracey Ullman Show cast members Dan Castellaneta and Julie Kavner provide the voices of Homer Simpson and Marge Simpson respectively.

However, according to Scully, Dan Castellaneta ( who voices Homer ) " did joke so funny when we were at the table-read so we decided to put it in and risk offending.

In 1993, Dan Castellaneta won an Emmy Award for " Outstanding Voice-Over Performance " for his performance as Homer in this episode.

Gibron also liked the choice of DeVito as the voice of Herb as he is " almost the antithesis of everything Dan Castellaneta does with Homer vocally.

Comedian Bob Hope was portrayed by series regular cast member Dan Castellaneta, who plays Homer among many other characters in the series.

The first generation consisted of Sauer's own students: Fred Kniffen ( 1930 ), Peveril Meigs ( 1932 ), Donald Brand ( 1933 ), Henry Bruman ( 1940 ), Felix W. McBryde ( 1940 ), Robert Bowman ( 1941 ), Dan Stanislawski ( 1944 ), Robert C. West ( 1946 ), James J. Parsons ( 1948 ), Edwin Doran ( 1953 ), Philip Wagner ( 1953 ), Brigham Arnold ( 1954 ), Homer Aschmann ( 1954 ), B. LeRoy Gordon ( 1954 ), Gordon Merrill ( 1957 ), Donald Innis ( 1958 ), Carl Johannessen ( 1959 ), Clinton Edwards ( 1962 ), and Leonard Sawatzky ( 1967 ).

Dan Castellaneta performed the voices of Homer Simpson, Grampa Simpson, and Krusty the Clown.

Dan Castellaneta described how, after he prepared something for Homer to say in response to Brooks's new Scorpio lines, Brooks would deliver totally different lines in the next take.

Homer Jay Simpson, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, is the father of the Simpson family.

" Grampa " Simpson, voiced by Dan Castellaneta, is the patriarch of the Simpson family, the father of Homer.