Patrick Warburton
Patrick Warburton
Patrick John Warburtonis an American actor. In television, he is known for playing David Puddy on Seinfeld, the title role on The Tick, Johnny Johnson on NewsRadio, Agent T in "Men in Black II", Jeb Denton on Less than Perfect, and Jeff Bingham on Rules of Engagement. His voice roles include Kronk in The Emperor's New Groove and its sequels, paraplegic police officer Joe Swanson on Family Guy, and bodyguard Brock Samson on The Venture Bros...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth14 November 1964
CityPaterson, NJ
CountryUnited States of America
All I try to do is as earnestly and as acutely as I can, conceive a character and try to portray this character just honestly. If the humor is within the absurdity and the awfulness of situations, then let it be seen that way.
I thought he was an interesting central figure, central character, one who is definitely not your typical central character figure in a film, who's easy to like. He's not easy to like. It forces you to involve yourself with what's going on.
My only job as an actor is to try and understand the character and, to the best of my ability, bring this character to life.
Tick is a cartoon character, I don't know if you're familiar with him. This is the third step in his evolution. Comic book to cartoon to, now, live-action.
Even right now, I'm glad to be working.
Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
Well, not at the time, but I've certainly gone through times and years in this business, where I've been very angry, bitter, and resentful.
You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
I do believe that we have the opportunity to continue - I repeat myself over and over again with this - to redefine and reinvent ourselves and as long as we do that, then I think we've got some pretty good odds in our favor, because we're not always presenting the same thing.
Apparently I work for free, look at some of the independent films I've done.
I always wanted to do a Disney movie.