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.

Known For: Creator

Born: Portland, Oregon, USA, 1954-02-15

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1969	The Story	Himself	50
2	1970	The Salmon Street Saga		0
3	1972	Drugs: Killers or Dillers?		0
4	1991	Frank Zappa: Peefeeyatko	Self	0
5	1992	The Rock Bottom Remainders	Self	100
6	1992	The Magical World of Chuck Jones	Self	80
7	1993	The Revenge of the Dead Indians	Himself	0
8	1994	An American Dissident: un tributo a Frank Zappa	Self (archive footage)	0
9	1997	The Artist Formerly Known As Captain Beefheart	Himself	0
10	1999	Yesterday's Tomorrows	Self	100
11	1999	Olive, The Other Reindeer	Arturo (voice)	68
12	2000	The Simpsons: America's First Family	Self	0
13	2000	Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation	Self	68
14	2000	The Beatles Revolution	Self	0
15	2000	The Making of Olive, The Other Reindeer	Self	60
16	2004	Comic Book: The Movie	Matt Groening	58
17	2004	Hair High	Will (voice)	64
18	2006	Tales of the Rat Fink	Finkster (voice)	53
19	2006	The Devil and Daniel Johnston	Self	77
20	2007	Bob & Doug McKenzie's Two-Four Anniversary	Himself	60
21	2008	The Seventh Python	Self	0
22	2009	20 years of Simpsons	Self - Simpsons Creator	0
23	2010	The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!	Self	67
24	2011	Comic-Con Episode IV: A Fan's Hope	Self	69
25	2013	The One and Only June Foray	Self	0
26	2014	I Know That Voice	Self	71
27	2014	Sex and Broadcasting	Self	64
28	2015	Theory of Obscurity: A Film About the Residents	Himself	67
29	2015	I Thought I Told You To Shut Up!!	Himself	50
30	2015	A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman	Self - Creator of 'The Simpsons'	70
31	2021	Emily @ the Edge of Chaos	Aldo Leopold (voice)	0
32	2021	Classic Albums: Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention - Freak Out!	Self	86
33		Dreadtown: The Steel Pulse Story	Self	0
34	2022	It Came From Aquarius Records	Himself	80

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1989	Prisoners of Gravity	Self	57
2	1989	The Simpsons	Matt Groening (voice)	80
3	1993	Late Night with Conan O'Brien	Self - Guest	72
4	1994	Space Ghost Coast to Coast		78
5	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
6	1997	Classic Albums	Self	77
7	1999	Futurama	Self (voice)	84
8	2001	Richard & Judy	Self	29
9	2011	Portlandia	Matt Groening	69
10	2013	The '80s: The Decade That Made Us	Self - Creator: The Simpsons	64
11	2013	Da Suisa	(Archivo)	60

Matt Groening

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