Bill Fagerbakke

Infobox actor


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name = Bill Fagerbakke
birthdate = birth date and age|1957|10|4
location = Fontana, California flagicon|Californiaflagicon|USA
occupation = Actor / Voice actor / Television actor

William "Bill" Fagerbakke (born October 4, 1957 in Fontana, California) is an American actor. Fagerbakke, who stands at 6'6" (1.98 meters), played football and appeared on television in such roles as Assistant Coach "Dauber" Dybinski on "Coach", in movies, including "Funny Farm", and several on-and-off Broadway stage showsFact|date=September 2007. He had a role as the mentally retarded Tom Cullen in the 1994 mini-series "Stephen King's The Stand". In 1999, he had a recurring role on HBO's original series "Oz" as Officer Karl Metzger.

However, Fagerbakke is best known as the voice of Patrick Star on the "SpongeBob SquarePants" animated series and Flush Peacock in the films and series Scamper.

In 2007, he made a cameo appearance on the show "Heroes" as Steve Gustavson in the episodes "Run" and "Unexpected." Amongst his peers, Fagerbakke is known as a very serious method actor and has received critical acclaim as a thespian by the Screen Actors Guild and Juilliard School of Performing Arts for his roles as Shylock in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", Torvald in Ibsen's "A Doll's House", and most notably Dauber in "Coach". Fagerbakke was involved in several controversial plot lines in "Coach", including ' [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0543511 "Dauber's Blow-Out"] ' (Season 1, Episode 13) airing on June 7, 1989 which involved a zany mixup.

Fagerbakke attended Minico High School in Rupert, Idaho, the University of Idaho (B.A. in theater arts), and Southern Methodist University Fact|date=September 2007. He is a member of Delta Tau Delta International Fraternity Fact|date=September 2007 and currently owns a house in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Selected filmography

* "The Scamper Show" (2008) (voice) (TV series) Flush Peacock
* "Transformers Animated" (2008) Bulkhead (Transformers), Master Disaster
* "Finding Amanda" (2008) Larry
* "Shrieking Violet" (2007) Larchmont
* "Scamper 12" (2007) (voice) Flush Peacock
* "The Kid Animated Series" (2007) Ñoño
* "Scamper's Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring" (2006) (voice) Flush Peacock / Gimli
* "Scamper's Harry Potter & the Philosophers Stone" (2006) (voice) Flush Peacock / Neville Longass
* "Scamper 10" (2006) (voice) Flush Shitsu Peacock
* "Scamper 8" (2006) (voice) Flush Peacock
* "W.I.T.C.H. (TV series)" (2006) Gulch & Karl Deplerson ("V is for Victory")
* "Scamper 7" (2006) (voice) Flush Peacock
* "Scamper 6" (2006) (voice) Flush
* "The Legend of Frosty the Snowman" (2005) (voice) Frosty the Snowman
* "The Endless Summer (SpongeBob SquarePants short)" (2005) (voice) Patrick Star
* "The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper" (2005) "Ted the Polar Bear"
* "Callback (film)" (2005)
* "" (2004) (voice) Ralph
* "SpongeBob Squarepants B.C. (Before Comedy)" (2004) Caveman
* "The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie" (2004) (voice) Patrick Star
* "Quigley (film)" (2003)
* "Patrick the Snowman" (2002) (voice) Patrick Star
* "Ken Park" (2002)
* "" (2001) (voice)
* "Lloyd in Space" (2001) (TV series - Larry, Kurt)
* "The Ultimate Christmas Present" (2000)
* "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999) (voice) (TV Series) Patrick Star
* "The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy" (TV Series) Thud
* "" (Animated TV series - Sgt. Gossard (1999)
* "Under Wraps (film) (1997)
* "The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996 film)" (1996) (voice)
* "Jumanji (TV series)" (1996) (TV Series) Alan Perrish
* "Dumb and Dumber" (1995) (TV Series)
* "Gargoyles (TV series)" (Animated TV series - voice of Broadway) (1994)
* "The Stand" (1994) (TV Series)
* "Beethoven (TV series)" (1994) (TV Series)
* "Porco Rosso" (1992)
* "Loose Cannons" (1990)
* "Coach (TV series)" (1989) (TV Series)
* "Funny Farm (film)" (1988)
* "The Secret of My Succe$s" (1987)
* "Almost Partners" (1987)

* "Perfect Strangers" (1984)

External links

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