Judge, Mike 1962– (William King)

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JUDGE, Mike 1962
(William King)

PERSONAL

Born October 17, 1962, in Guayaquil, Ecuador; raised in Albuquerque, NM; son of an archaeology professor and a high school teacher; married Francesca Morocco, 1989; children: Julia, and another daughter. Education: University of California, San Diego, B.A., physics, 1985; studied mathematics in graduate school. Avocational Interests: Classical piano, music, and watching the Discovery Channel.

Addresses: Agent Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212; William Morris Agency, 151 El Camino Dr., Beverly Hills, CA 90212. Office Judgemental Films, 1010 West Martin Luther King, Jr., Blvd., Austin, TX 78701; The Animation Show, 11684 Ventura Blvd., Suite 778, Studio City, CA 91604. Manager 3 Arts Entertainment, 9460 Wilshire Blvd., 7th Floor, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.

Career: Television series creator, producer, writer, director, composer, character designer, creative consultant, animator, and actor. Worked in fast food restaurants as a teenager; University of California, San Diego, physics teaching assistant, for two years; worked two jobs as an electronics engineer in California, 198587; played bass in various bands in Texas; created Beavis and Butthead.

Awards, Honors: Emmy Award nominations (with others), outstanding animated program (for programming one hour or less), 1997, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, Annie Award nomination, best individual achievement: voice acting by a male performer in a TV production, 1997, Annie Award nomination, outstanding individual achievement for voice acting by a male performer in an animated television production, 2000, all for King of the Hill; Certificate of Merit (with Don Hertzfeldt), Annie Awards, 2004.

CREDITS

Film Work:

Director, producer, and animator, Inbred Jed, 1991.

Animator, producer, and director, Office Space (animated short film), 1991.

Director and (uncredited) producer, Beavis and Butthead Do America (animated), Paramount, 1996.

Director and (uncredited) producer, Office Space (also known as Cubiculos de la oficina ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1999.

Coproducer, The Animation Show (also known as Mike Judge and Don Hertzfeldt Present: The Animation Show ), The Animation Show, 2003.

Producer and director, 3001, Twentieth CenturyFox, 2005.

Film Appearances:

Voices of Milton and others, Office Space (animated short film), 1991.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Airheads (also known as Hardrock Hijack ), Fox Video, 1994.

Voices of Beavis, Butthead, Tom Anderson, Mr. Van Driessen, and Principal McVicker, Beavis and Butthead Do America (animated), Paramount, 1996.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Mene Tekel, 1997.

(Uncredited) Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, 1997.

(As William King) Stan, Chotchkie's manager, Office Space (also known as Cubiculos de la oficina ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1999.

Voice of Kenny McCormick's goodbye, South Park, Bigger, Longer and Uncut (also known as South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut ), Paramount/Warner Bros., 1999.

Donnagon and Donnamight, Spy Kids, Miramax, 2001.

Donnagon Giggles, Spy Kids 2: Island of Lost Dreams, Miramax, 2002.

(Uncredited) Motel clerk, Serving Sara (also known as Mann umstaendehalber abzugeben! oder: Scheiden ist suss and Scheiden ist suss ), Paramount, 2002.

Donnagon Giggles, Spy Kids 3D: Game Over, Miramax, 2003.

Television Work; Series:

Creator, character designer, director, executive producer, and creative consultant, Beavis and Butthead (animated), MTV, 19921997.

(With Greg Daniels) Creator and executive producer, King of the Hill (animated), Fox, 1996.

Executive producer, Monsignor Martinez, 2000.

Television Work; Specials:

Animation, The 1992 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV, 1992.

Producer and director, Beavis and Butthead Do Christmas (also known as Beavis and Butthead Christmas Special ), 1995.

Animation creative supervisor, The 13th Annual MTV Music Video Awards, MTV, 1996.

Creator, Beavis and Butthead Do America: An MTV Movie Special, MTV, 1996.

Segment director (Beavis and Butthead), The 69th Annual Academy Awards, 1997.

Segment writer (Beavis & Butthead), MTV20: Live and Almost Legal, MTV, 2001.

Television Work; Episodic:

Producer and director, "Frog Baseball," Liquid Television, (animated short film), MTV, 1993.

Also directed episodes of King of the Hill (animated), Fox; Monsignor Martinez.

Television Appearances; Series:

Voices of Beavis, Butthead, Tom Anderson, David van Driessen, Bradley Buzzcut, and Principal McVicker, Beavis and Butthead (animated), MTV, 19921998.

Voices of Hank Hill, Jeff Boomhauer, Dooley, Dooley's Mom, Monsignor Martinez, Jason Adderly, King of the Hill (animated), Fox, 1996.

Television Appearances; Specials:

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, MTV Video Music Awards 1992, MTV and syndicated, 1992.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, The 1993 MTV Music Video Awards, MTV, 1993.

Voices of Beavis, Butthead, Tom Anderson, David Van Driessen, Mr. Stevenson, Burger World manager, Principal McVicker, Bradley Buzzcut, and MaxiMart owner, Beavis and Butthead Do Christmas (also known as Beavis and Butthead Christmas Special ), 1995.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Beavis and Butthead Do America: An MTV Movie Special, MTV, 1996.

Voice of himself, The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, Fox, 1999.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, MTV20: Live and Almost Legal, MTV, 2001.

Television Appearances; Episodic:

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, "Frog Baseball," Liquid Television, (animated short film), MTV, 1993.

Late Show with David Letterman, CBS, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000.

Voice of Butthead, "The Date," The Head, 1994.

The Howard Stern Show, E! Entertainment Television, 1995, 1997.

Himself, "Sphinx," Space Ghost Coast to Coast, Cartoon Network, 1997.

Voice of Hank Hill, "Bart Star," The Simpsons (animated), Fox, 1997.

Voice of himself, "I Love 1993," I Love 1990's, BBC, 2001.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Saturday Night Live, NBC, 2002.

Van, "The Harassed," Frasier, NBC, 2003.

(In archive footage) Voice of Beavis and Butthead, "Primetime Cartoons," VH1 Goes Inside, VH1, 2003.

RECORDINGS

Albums:

The Beavis and Butthead Experience, Geffen, 1993.

Video Games:

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Beavis and Butthead, 1994.

Character designer, director, (uncredited) producer, and (uncredited) voices of Beavis, Butthead, Tom Anderson, David Van Driessen, Principal McVicker, Bradley Buzzcut, the Great Cornholio, and others, Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995.

Voices of Beavis and Butthead, Beavis and Butthead in Wiener Takes All, 1996.

Character designer, (uncredited) director, and voices of Beavis, Butthead, and Mr. Van Driessen, Beavis and Butthead Do U., 1998.

WRITINGS

Screenplays:

(With Joe Stillman) Beavis and Butthead Do America (animated), Paramount, 1996.

Office Space (also known as Cubiculos de la oficina ), Twentieth CenturyFox, 1999.

3001, Twentieth CenturyFox, 2005.

Film Scores:

Office Space (animated short film), 1991.

(Uncredited) Inbred Jed, 1991.

Film Songs:

Beavis and Butthead Do America, 1996.

Television Specials:

Beavis and Butthead Do Christmas (also known as Beavis and Butthead Christmas Special ), 1995.

Television Episodes:

"Frog Baseball," Liquid Television, (animated short film), MTV, 1993.

(With others) Beavis and Butthead (animated), MTV, 19921998.

(With Greg Daniels) King of the Hill (animated), Fox, 1996.

Monsignor Martinez, 2000.

Also wrote animated shorts for Saturday Night Live (also known as SNL ), NBC.

Television Series Theme Songs:

Beavis and Butthead (animated), MTV, 19931997.

Television Music:

VH1 Goes Inside, VH1, 2003.

Video Games:

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995.

(Uncredited) Beavis and Butthead Do U., 1998.

Video Game Scores:

Beavis and Butthead in Virtual Stupidity, 1995.

Nonfiction:

(With others) Beavis and Butthead's Ensucklopedia, MTV/Pocket Books, 1994.

(Creator) Larry Doyle, This Sucks, Change It!: Giant Inactivity Book with Handy Remote Control, MTV/Pocket books/Melcher Media, 1995.

(With Joe Stillman) Beavis and Butthead Do America: The Official Script Book, MTV/Pocket Books, 1996.

(Creator) Larry Doyle, Huh Huh for Hollywood, MTV/Pocket Books, 1996.

(Creator) Kristofer Brown, Travel Log: HuhHuh, MTV/Pocket Books, 1997.

(As Hank Hill) The Boy Ain't Right, Regan Books, 1998.

(Cocreator, with Greg Daniels) John Altschuler, Dale's I'm O.K., You're Y2K: A Survival Guide for the New Millennium and for the One After That, HarperCollinsEntertainment, 1999.

(Cocreator, with Daniels) John Altschuler (as Hank Hill), WD40 for the Soul: A Guide for Fixing Everything, TV Books, 1999.

Also wrote (with Sam Johnson and Chris Marcil) This Book Sucks.

OTHER SOURCES

Books:

Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 20, Gale Research, 1997.

Contemporary Authors, Volume 156, Gale, pp. 24448.

Periodicals:

Ann Arbor News, April 7, 1996, p. C3; December 30, 1996, p. B4.

Chicago Tribune, December 20, 1996.

Detroit Free Press, December 17, 1996, pp. C1, C6.

Entertainment Weekly, September 24, 1993, pp. 4244; December 20, 1996, pp. 54, 56; January 17, 1997, p. 52; March 5, 1999, p. 52.

Los Angeles Times, March 26, 1996, p. F2; December 20, 1996, p. F7.

National Review, May 2, 1994, pp.6062.

New Yorker, February 28, 1994, pp. 9698.

New York Times, October 17, 1993, p. II33; December 20, 1996.

People Weekly, October 4, 1993, pp. 14647.

Playboy, January, 1997, pp. 16870.

Rolling Stone, August 19, 1993, pp. 4350, 87; March 24, 1994, pp. 3840, 42, 45.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 20, 1996, p. C3.

Time, January 20, 1997, p. 70.

Variety, December 13, 1996.

Washington Post, October 10, 1993, p. G1.

Wild Cartoon Kingdom, number 3, 1994.

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