Matt Groening
Matthew Abram "Matt" Groening (born February 15, 1954) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strip Life in Hell as well as two successful television series, The Simpsons and Futurama. Groening made his first professional cartoon sale of Life in Hell to the avant-garde Wet magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in 250 weekly newspapers. Life in Hell caught the attention of James L. Brooks. In 1985, Brooks contacted Groening with the proposition of working in animation for the Fox variety show The Tracey Ullman Show. Originally, Brooks wanted Groening to adapt his Life in Hell characters for the show. Fearing the loss of ownership rights, Groening decided to create something new and came up with a cartoon family, The Simpsons, and named the members after his own parents and sisters — while Bart was an anagram of the word brat. The shorts would be spun off into their own series: The Simpsons, which has since aired over 480 episodes. In 1997, Groening, along with former Simpsons writer David X. Cohen, developed Futurama, an animated series about life in the year 3000, which premiered in 1999. After four years on the air, the show was canceled by Fox in 2003, but Comedy Central commissioned 16 new episodes from four direct-to-DVD movies in 2008. Then, in June 2009, Comedy Central ordered 26 new episodes of Futurama, to be aired over two seasons. Groening has won 11 Primetime Emmy Awards, ten for The Simpsons and one for Futurama as well as a British Comedy Award for "outstanding contribution to comedy" in 2004. In 2002, he won the National Cartoonist Society Reuben Award for his work on Life in Hell. Description above from the Wikipedia article Matt Groening, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Credits
- 2022 · It Came From Aquarius Records as Himself
- 2021 · Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out! as Self
- 2021 · Emily @ the Edge of Chaos as Aldo Leopold (voice)
- 2015 · A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman as Self - Creator of 'The Simpsons'
- 2015 · I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!! as Himself
- 2015 · Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents as Himself
- 2014 · Sex and Broadcasting as Self
- 2014 · I Know That Voice as Self
- 2013 · Da Suisa as (Archivo)
- 2013 · The '80s: The Decade That Made Us as Self - Creator: The Simpsons
- 2013 · The One and Only June Foray as Self
- 2011 · Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope as Self
- 2011 · Portlandia as Matt Groening
- 2010 · The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice! as Self
- 2009 · 20 years of Simpsons as Self - Simpsons Creator
- 2008 · The Seventh Python as Self
- 2007 · Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary as Himself
- 2006 · The Devil and Daniel Johnston as Self
- 2006 · Tales of the Rat Fink as Finkster (voice)
- 2004 · Hair High as Will (voice)
- 2001 · Richard & Judy as Self
- 2000 · The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer as Self
- 2000 · The Beatles Revolution as Self
- 2000 · Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation as Self
- 1999 · Olive, The Other Reindeer as Arturo (voice)
- 1999 · Yesterday's Tomorrows as Self
- 1999 · Futurama as Self (voice)
- 1997 · The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart as Himself
- 1997 · Classic Albums as Self
- 1996 · The Daily Show as Self
- 1994 · Space Ghost Coast to Coast as
- 1994 · An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa as Self (archive footage)
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Guest
- 1993 · The Revenge of the Dead Indians as Himself
- 1992 · The Magical World of Chuck Jones as Self
- 1992 · The Rock Bottom Remainders as Self
- 1991 · Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko as Self
- 1989 · The Simpsons as Matt Groening (voice)
- 1989 · Prisoners of Gravity as Self
- 1972 · Drugs: Killers or Dillers? as
- 1970 · The Salmon Street Saga as
- 1969 · The Story as Himself
- Future · Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story as Self