David Herman

David Herman (born February 20, 1967) is an American actor, voice artist, and comedian. He was an original cast member on MADtv and played Michael Bolton in Office Space.[1] He is known for his voice-work in Bob's Burgers, Futurama, King of the Hill, OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, and Roy Horn in Father of the Pride.

For other people with similar names, see David Herman (disambiguation).

David Herman
Born	(1967-02-20) February 20, 1967 New York City, New York, U.S.
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actor, voice artist, comedian
Years active	1989–present
Spouse(s)	Christi Campbell (divorced)
Children	2

Early life

Herman was born into a Jewish family in New York City and raised in Washington Heights, Manhattan. He graduated from the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts in 1987, then attended the acting program at SUNY Purchase. Herman appeared in the films Born on the Fourth of July, Lost Angels, and Let It Be Me; but he is probably best known for his role as Michael Bolton in Mike Judge's Office Space. Earlier, Herman had joined the cast of John Leguizamo's House of Buggin' in 1994; however, that show was short-lived. When Fox decided to mount a sketch comedy show to replace House of Buggin', Herman was kept on as an original MADtv cast member.

Career

MADtv

Herman was one of nine original cast members of MADtv[1] when the series debuted in 1995. Unlike the other original repertory and featured players, he was one of the few cast members who came to the show with an established acting career. Herman's MADtv characters included Mike Lawson (Incredible Findings), Generation X anchorman Marsh (X News), and concerned father Joel Linder. Former castmate Artie Lange referred to Herman as "a brilliant, talented actor" and called him "one of my best friends in show business."

Herman lampooned celebrities and famous figures such as Don Adams (as Maxwell Smart from Get Smart), Tim Allen (as Tim "the Tool Man" Taylor from Home Improvement), Woody Allen, Nicolas Cage, Bill Clinton, Bob Dole, David Duchovny (as Fox Mulder from The X-Files), Larry Flynt, Tom Hanks (as Forrest Gump and as Jim Lovell from Apollo 13), Larry King, Kenny Kingston, Regis Philbin, Charles Nelson Reilly, John Ritter (as himself and as Jack Tripper from Three's Company), Joel Schumacher, Robert Shapiro, Pauly Shore, Brent Spiner, Patrick Stewart (as Jean-Luc Picard from Star Trek: The Next Generation), and Alex Trebek.

Herman stayed with the show until exiting six episodes into the third season. He wanted to leave the show to do other projects, but Fox would not let him out of his contract as they considered him too valuable to the show. So he got himself fired by screaming all his lines during read-through. While continuing his voice work on King of the Hill, he came across the script for Office Space, for which Hill creator Mike Judge had specifically written the Michael Bolton part with Herman in mind.[2]

Other television projects

Herman's television credits include guest-starring on the WB's Angel and Fox's action drama 24.[1]

Film projects

Although he is primarily a television actor, Herman has appeared in several films including Dude, Where's My Car? and Fun with Dick and Jane. Herman had a prominent role in the 1999 comedy Office Space, where he played a gangsta rap-loving nerd unfortunately named Michael Bolton who must endure questions about his relationship to the famous singer. In 2006, he appeared in another Mike Judge film, Idiocracy.[1]

Voice acting

Herman is also known for his work as a voice actor in cartoons and video games, notably in Futurama, where he provides the voices of many recurring characters (including Scruffy, Planet Express's Sling Blade-esque janitor; Roberto, the mentally-deranged criminal robot obsessed with stabbing people; New New York City mayor, Mayor Poopenmeyer, and Professor Farnsworth's former student and current rival, Ogden Wernstrom), and King of the Hill, for which he voiced Anthony Page (the "twig boy" social worker from the pilot episode where Hank is accused of physically abusing his son, Bobby, and the season two episode "Junkie Business"), Eustis (one of Hank's childhood friends that Hank now sees as a wimp, because he was kicked out of the Order of the Straight Arrow as a child and now has a job as a patent lawyer), and other one-shot and incidental characters. Herman's other voice work includes parts on Family Guy, American Dad!, the short-lived CGI-animated sitcom Father of the Pride (in which he voices Roy Horn), and the Jak and Daxter video game series. Herman also starred as Ubuntu Goode (and other supporting voices) on Mike Judge's short-lived companion series to King of the Hill, The Goode Family. He also provides the voice for Mr. Frond (and other supporting voices) in Fox's Bob's Burgers, Mr. Gar, Brandon, and others on Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes, The Herald and various characters on Matt Groening's recent series for Netflix Disenchantment, self-absorbed and dangerously incompetent park ranger Steve Williams on Comedy Central's Brickleberry, and Kevin Crawford, a childish, yet semi-competent rookie cop on Netflix's Paradise, PD (coincidentally made by the same people behind Brickleberry).[1]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1989	Lost Angels	Carlo[1][3]
1989	Born on the Fourth of July	VA in Hospital[1][4]
1997	Kirk and Kerry	Dave[1][5]	Short film
1998	Gunshy	Dan[1][6]
1999	Olive, the Other Reindeer	Guard Shack Elf (voice)[1][6]
1999	Office Space	Michael Bolton[1][7]
2000	Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth	Mr. Lowelle Buchanan[1][8]
2000	Dude, Where's My Car?	Nelson[1][9]
2000	Table One	Norman[1][10]
2000	Monsignor Martinez	John Smith[1][11]
2005	The Lather Effect	Corey[1][12]
2005	Kicking & Screaming	Referee[1][13]
2005	Fun with Dick and Jane	Angry Caller (voice)[1][14]
2006	Idiocracy	Secretary of State[1][15]
2007	Bee Movie	Buzz, Bob Bumble, Pilot (voices)[1][16]
2007	Futurama: Bender's Big Score	Nudar Scruffy the Janitor Turanga Morris Terry Nude Bartender Additional Voices[1][17]	Direct-to-video
2008	Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs	Dr. Ogden Wernstrom Mayor Poopenmeyer Pazuzu Chu Fatbot Warden Vogel Three-Eyed Zebra Additional Voices[1][18]	Direct-to-video
2008	Futurama: Bender's Game	Larry / Larius Turanga Morris Scruffy the Janitor Dr. Ogden Wernstrom Roberto / King Roberto Additional Voices[1][19]	Direct-to-video
2009	Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder	Number 9 Man Scruffy the Janitor Michael Additional Voices[1][20]	Direct-to-video
2013	Bad Milo	Ralph (voice)[1][20]
2013	I Know That Voice	Himself[1][21]	Documentary
2016	Storks	Additional Voices
2017	Best Fiends: Boot Camp[22]	Roger (voice)	Short film
2017	Best Fiends: Visit Minutia[23]	Roger (voice)	Short film
2018	Best Fiends: Fort of Hard Knocks[24]	Gordon (voice)	Short film
2018	Best Fiends: Baby Slug's Big Day Out	Gordon (voice)	Short film
2019	98%	TBA	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1995	House of Buggin'	Various	Series regular
1995–1997	MADtv	Various	Series regular (seasons 1–3)
1997–2010	King of the Hill	Buckley, Eustis, Jimmy Witchard, Additional Voices	147 episodes
1999–2003, 2008–2013	Futurama	Scruffy the Janitor, Various Voices	Recurring role (seasons 1–4) Series regular (seasons 5–7)
2000	Angel	David Nabbit	3 episodes
2001	Primetime Glick	Various	2 episodes
2001–2003	Invader Zim	Additional Voices	7 episodes
2003	Life on Parole	Dave	Television film
2004	24	Dalton Furrelle	2 episodes
2004	Grounded for Life	Dave, J.J. Bodybuddy, Lomax	2 episodes
2004	Father of the Pride	Roy (voice)	Main role
2006–2017	American Dad!	Arboreus, Mr. Aids, Zach, Additional Voices	6 episodes
2008	Moral Orel	Principal Fakey, Additional Voices	Season 3
2008–2009	The Drinky Crow Show	Uncle Gabby, Captain Maak (voices)	Main role
2009	The Goode Family	Ubuntu Goode (voice)	Main role
2011–present	Bob's Burgers	Phillip Frond, Additional Voices	Recurring role
2011	Beavis and Butt-head	Additional Voices	4 episodes
2012	Family Guy	David Strathairn (voice)	Episode: "Tom Tucker: The Man and His Dream"
2012–2015	Brickleberry	Steve Williams, Additional Voices	Main role
2013	Lakewood Plaza Turbo	Mr. Gar (voice)	Pilot
2014–2016	TripTank	Various Voices	12 episodes
2014	The Simpsons	Scruffy the Janitor (voice)	Episode: "Simpsorama"
2015	Ridin' with Burgess	Duzenthal, Narrator (voices)	Pilot
2015	The Awesomes	Additional Voices	9 episodes
2016	Better Things	Richard	Episode: "Sam/Pilot"
2017–2019	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Mr. Gar, Brandon, Additional Voices	Main role
2017	Adventure Time	Randy, Additional Voices	Episode: "Ring of Fire"
2018–present	Disenchantment	The Herald, Jerry, Chazz, Guysbert (voices)
2018-present	Yu-Gi-Oh!: Game On	Clint Hadley, Various (voice)	English version
2018–present	Paradise PD	Kevin Crawford (voice)	Main role
2019-present	Bless the Harts	Chip Scoville (voice) and various	Recurring role
2020-present	Central Park	Various

Video games

Year	Title	Role
2001	Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy	Sculptor, Boggy Billy
2003	Futurama	Larry, Adoy, Ra-Ra the Sun King
2003	Jak II	Erol, Agent #2, Krimzon Guards
2004	Jak 3	Errol
2005	Jak X: Combat Racing	Razer, Ximon, Thugs
2006	Daxter	Ximon, Tik, Errol, Krimzon Guard, Miner
2018	OK K.O.! Let's Play Heroes	Mr. Gar, Brandon

Other

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2000	Zombie College	Scott (voice)	Web series

References

1. "David Herman". IMDb. Retrieved February 5, 2018.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
2. Hunt, Stacey Wilson (January 11, 2019). "The oral history of 'Office Space': Behind the scenes of the cult classic". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved February 3, 2019.
3. Lost Angels (1989), retrieved February 5, 2018CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
4. Born on the Fourth of July (1989), retrieved February 5, 2018
5. Jacobs, Azazel, Kirk and Kerry, Kirk Acevedo, David Herman, Kerry Johnson, retrieved February 5, 2018
6. Naughton, Maura (May 1999), Gunshy, Elizabeth Feaster, David Herman, Parker Posey, retrieved February 5, 2018
7. Judge, Mike (February 19, 1999), Office Space, Ron Livingston, Jennifer Aniston, David Herman, retrieved February 5, 2018
8. Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth (Video 2000), retrieved February 5, 2018
9. Leiner, Danny (December 15, 2000), Dude, Where's My Car?, Ashton Kutcher, Seann William Scott, Jennifer Garner, retrieved February 5, 2018
10. Table One (2000), retrieved February 5, 2018
11. Judge, Mike, Monsignor Martinez, Ivo Cutzarida, David Herman, Rene Rivera, retrieved February 5, 2018
12. Kelly, Sarah (June 26, 2006), The Lather Effect, Connie Britton, Sarah Clarke, Tate Donovan, retrieved February 5, 2018
13. Kicking & Screaming (2005), retrieved February 5, 2018
14. Parisot, Dean (December 21, 2005), Fun with Dick and Jane, Jim Carrey, Téa Leoni, Alec Baldwin, retrieved February 5, 2018
15. Judge, Mike (January 25, 2007), Idiocracy, Luke Wilson, Maya Rudolph, Dax Shepard, retrieved February 5, 2018
16. Bee Movie (2007), retrieved February 5, 2018
17. Carey-Hill, Dwayne (November 27, 2007), Futurama: Bender's Big Score, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, retrieved February 5, 2018
18. Avanzino, Peter (June 24, 2008), Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, retrieved February 5, 2018
19. Carey-Hill, Dwayne (November 4, 2008), Futurama: Bender's Game, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, retrieved February 5, 2018
20. Avanzino, Peter (February 24, 2009), Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder, Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, retrieved February 5, 2018
21. I Know That Voice (2013), retrieved February 5, 2018
22. Boot Camp - A Best Fiends Animation
23. Visit Minutia - A Best Fiends Animation
24. Fort of Hard Knocks - A Best Fiends Animation

External links

• David Herman on IMDb