Seth Macfarlane's First Cartoons That Became Family Guy

Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (Born October 26, 1973) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for creating his hit TV shows, Family Guy, American Dad!, and The Cleveland Show as well as existence the creator of famous hit movies Ted and Ted 2.

Contents

• 1 Biography
  • i.1 Early on Life
  • 1.2 Television set Career
    • 1.2.1 Hannah-Barbera
    • 1.2.2 Family unit Guy
    • 1.2.3 American Dad
    • i.2.iv The Cleveland Show
    • 1.2.5 Bordertown
    • i.ii.half-dozen The Orville
• 2 Filmography
  • 2.one Creations
• 3 Characters
  • 3.1 Main Roles
  • 3.two Recurring Roles
  • 3.3 Old Roles

Biography

Early on Life

MacFarlane was born and raised in Kent, Connecticut. His parents, Ronald Milton MacFarlane and Ann Perry (née Sager), were born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. MacFarlane'south younger sis Rachael is also a voice actress. He has roots in New England going back to the 1600s, and is a descendant of Mayflower passenger William Brewster. MacFarlane's parents met in 1970, when they both lived and worked in Boston, Massachusetts, and married later that twelvemonth. The couple moved to Kent in 1972, where Ann began working in the Admissions Office at Due south Kent Schoolhouse. She subsequently worked in the Higher Guidance and Admissions Offices at the Kent Schoolhouse, a selective college preparatory school, where Ronald was a instructor.

During his childhood, MacFarlane developed an interest in illustration and began drawing cartoon characters Fred Flintstone and Woody Woodpecker, as early as two years old. Past the age of 5, MacFarlane knew that he would want to pursue a career in animation, and began past creating flip books, later his parents plant a book on the subject for him. Iv years later, aged nine, MacFarlane began publishing a weekly comic strip titled "Walter Crouton" for The Kent Good Times Dispatch, the local newspaper in Kent, Connecticut, which paid him five dollars per week. In 1 anecdote from the time, MacFarlane said in an Oct 2011 interview that as a child he was always "weirdly fascinated by the Communion anniversary". He created a strip with a graphic symbol kneeling at the chantry taking Communion and request "Tin can I take fries with that?" The paper printed it and he got an "angry letter" from the local priest; it led to "sort of a lilliputian mini-controversy" in the boondocks.

MacFarlane received his loftier school diploma in 1991 from the Kent School. While there, he continued experimenting with animation, and his parents gave him an viii mm photographic camera. MacFarlane went on to report film, video, and animation at the Rhode Isle School of Design (RISD), where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts caste. As a student, he had intended to work for Disney but changed his listen after graduating.

At RISD MacFarlane created a series of independent films, meeting future Family Guy cast member Mike Henry, whose brother Patrick was MacFarlane'due south classmate. During his fourth dimension at RISD, he performed stand-up comedy. In his senior year he fabricated a thesis picture show titled The Life of Larry, which became the inspiration for Family Guy. A professor submitted his film to the animation studio Hanna-Barbera, where he was afterwards hired.

Boob tube Career

Hannah-Barbera

MacFarlane was recruited during the senior motion-picture show festival by development executive Ellen Cockrill and President Fred Seibert. He went to piece of work at Hanna-Barbera (so Hanna-Barbera Cartoons) based on the writing content of The Life of Larry, rather than on cartooning ability. He was 1 of only a few people hired by the company solely based on writing talent. He worked as an animator and writer for Cartoon Network's Cartoon Cartoons series. In 1996, MacFarlane created a sequel to The Life of Larry entitled Larry & Steve, which features a heart-anile character named Larry and an intellectual canis familiaris, Steve. The brusque was broadcast as 1 of Drawing Network's World Premiere Toons. He described the atmosphere at Hanna-Barbera every bit resembling an "old-fashioned Hollywood structure, where y'all move from one show to some other or you leap from a writing job on one bear witness to a storyboard task on another". MacFarlane worked on iv tv series during his tenure at the studio: Dexter's Laboratory, Moo-cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, and Johnny Bravo. Working as both a author and storyboard artist, MacFarlane spent the most fourth dimension on Johnny Bravo. He found it easier to develop his own style at Johnny Bravo through the show's procedure of scriptwriting, which Dexter's Laboratory, Cow and Craven, and I Am Weasel did not use. As a role of the Johnny Bravo coiffure, MacFarlane met actors and voiceover artists such as Adam West and Jack Sheldon of School Rock! fame. Meeting these individuals later became meaning to the product and success of his Family unit Guy series.

He also did freelance work for Walt Disney Idiot box Animation, writing for Jungle Cubs, and for Nelvana, where he wrote for Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Through strict observation of writing elements such as story progression, grapheme stakes and plot points, MacFarlane constitute the work for Disney was, from a writing standpoint, very valuable in training for his career (particularly on Ace Ventura). MacFarlane also created and wrote a curt titled Zoomates for Frederator Studios' Oh Yeah! Cartoons on Nickelodeon. Executives at Fox saw both Larry shorts and negotiations soon began for a prime-fourth dimension animated series.

Family unit Guy

Although MacFarlane enjoyed working at Hanna-Barbera, he felt his existent calling was for prime-fourth dimension animation, which would allow a much edgier mode of humor. He offset pitched Family Guy to Fox during his tenure at Hanna-Barbera. A development executive for Hanna-Barbera, who was trying to become back into the prime-time business at the fourth dimension, introduced MacFarlane to Leslie Kolins and Mike Darnell, heads of the alternative one-act section at Fox. After the success of Male monarch of the Loma in 1997, MacFarlane called Kolins once again to inquire most a possible 2nd pitch for the series. The company offered the young writer a strange bargain: Play a joke on gave him a budget of US$50,000 to produce a pilot that could lead to a series (about episodes of animated prime-fourth dimension productions toll at to the lowest degree US$1 meg). Recalling the experience in an interview with The New York Times, MacFarlane stated, "I spent about six months with no slumber and no life, only drawing similar crazy in my kitchen and doing this pilot".

Later on six months, MacFarlane returned to Fox with a "very, very simply, crudely animated film – with just enough to get the tone of the bear witness across" to present to the executives, who loved the airplane pilot and ordered the serial immediately. In July 1998, the Fox Broadcast Company announced the purchase of Family Guy for a January 1999 debut. Family Guy was originally intended to be a serial of shorts on MADtv, much in the same way The Simpsons had begun on The Tracey Ullman Testify a decade earlier. Negotiations for the show'south MADtv connectedness fell through early as a result of monetary concerns. At age 24, MacFarlane was television'due south youngest executive producer.

Family unit Guy first aired January 31, 1999. MacFarlane'southward piece of work in animating Family unit Guy has been influenced by Jackie Gleason and Hanna-Barbera along with examples from The Simpsons and All in the Family. In addition to writing three episodes, "Death Has a Shadow", "Family Guy Viewer Mail 1" and "North by North Quahog", MacFarlane voices Family Guy's main male characters – Peter Griffin, Stewie Griffin, Brian Griffin, and Glenn Quagmire as well as Tom Tucker, his son Jake Tucker, and boosted characters. Bolstered past high DVD sales and established fan loyalty, Family Guy developed into a U.s.$i-billion franchise. On May iv, 2008, subsequently approximately two and a half years of negotiations, MacFarlane reached a US$100-million agreement with Fob to keep Family Guy and American Dad! until 2012. The understanding makes him the earth's highest paid television writer.

MacFarlane's success with Family unit Guy has opened doors to other ventures relating to the show. On April 26, 2005, he and composer Walter Murphy created Family Guy: Live in Vegas. The soundtrack features a Broadway show tune theme, and MacFarlane voiced Stewie in the rail "Stewie'southward Sexy Party". A fan of Broadway musicals, MacFarlane comments on using musicals as a component to Family Guy:

I dear the lush orchestration and old-fashioned melody writing ... information technology merely gets yous excited, that kind of music", he said. "It'south very optimistic. And it's fun. The one thing that'due south missing for me from popular music today is fun. Guys like [Bing] Crosby, or [Frank] Sinatra, or Dean Martin, or Mel Tormé [...] these are guys who sounded similar they were having a not bad time.

In addition, a Family Guy video game was released in 2006. Ii years afterward, in August 2007, he airtight a digital content product deal with AdSense. MacFarlane takes cast members on the route to vox characters in forepart of live audiences. Family Guy Live provides fans with the opportunity to hear future scripts. In mid-2007, Chicago fans had the opportunity to hear the then upcoming sixth-flavour premiere "Blue Harvest". Shows have been played in Montreal, New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles.

MacFarlane at a Rhode Isle School of Design reception on June 1, 2007 On July 22, 2007, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, MacFarlane announced that he may get-go working on a characteristic film, although "nothing's official". In September 2007, Ricky Blitt gave Idiot box.com an interview confirming that he had already started working on the script. So in TV Week on July 18, 2008, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a theatrically released Family unit Guy feature picture onetime "inside the next year". He came up with an idea for the story, "something that you could not practise on the evidence, which [to him] is the only reason to do a movie". He after went on to say he imagines the moving-picture show to be "an sometime-mode musical with dialogue" similar to The Sound of Music, saying that he would "actually be trying to capture, musically, that feel". On October thirteen, 2011, MacFarlane confirmed that a deal for a Family Guy film had been fabricated, and that it would be written past himself and serial co-producer Ricky Blitt. On November thirty, 2012, MacFarlane confirmed plans to produce a Family unit Guy moving-picture show.

Despite its popularity, Family Guy has oftentimes been criticized. The Parents Television receiver Council frequently criticizes the show for its content, one time organized a alphabetic character-writing campaign aimed at removing it from Fox's lineup, and has filed complaints with the Federal Communications Committee alleging that some episodes of the show contained indecent content. MacFarlane has responded to the PTC's criticism by proverb, amid other things, "That'due south like getting hate mail from Hitler. They're literally terrible human beings."

Family Guy has been cancelled twice, although strong fan support and DVD sales have caused Fox to reconsider. MacFarlane mentioned how these cancellations afflicted the lineup of writers each time Fox approved the bear witness. "Ane of the positive aspects of Family unit Guy constantly being pulled off [the air] is that we were e'er having to restaff writers".

During the sixth season, episodes of Family Guy and American Dad! were delayed from regular broadcast due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike (which MacFarlane participated in to support the writers while Fox aired 3 Family unit Guy episodes without MacFarlane'southward permission). On February 12, 2008, the strike ended, and the series resumed ambulation regularly, outset with "Back to the Wood".

American Dad

MacFarlane has a 2nd long-running, successful developed animated series in American Dad! which has been in production since early 2005. To date, American Dad! is MacFarlane'southward only animated series never to have suffered an official cancellation, though information technology did undergo a network relocation from Fox to TBS on October twenty, 2014, following the show's 11th season. TBS announced on July 16, 2013, that they had picked up the series for a 15-episode 12th season. Reportedly, the purpose of the network relocation was originally to make room for new animated broadcasts on Trick'southward at present-defunct "Animation Domination" lineup. Information technology was reported that the relocation of American Dad! immune room for other shows, such as Mulaney and some other animated series from Seth MacFarlane called Bordertown. Bordertown ran during the 2015–16 television season.

While MacFarlane regularly does extensive voice acting piece of work for American Dad!, he has left much of the prove's creative direction up to Weitzman and Barker. MacFarlane has credited this motion with helping to give the series its own distinct voice and identity. Though, as announced on November 4, 2013, Barker departed American Dad! afterwards 10 seasons of serving as the show's producer/co-showrunner, resulting from artistic differences as product for flavor 11 on TBS commenced.

American Dad! was first shown after Super Bowl XXXIX on February 6th, 2006, debuting with the episode "American Dad!", which MacFarlane co-wrote. This February 6th, 2005 series premiere was somewhat of an early sneak preview equally the plan would not begin ambulation regularly every bit part of Fox's Animation Domination until May one, 2005. Because of atypical scheduling of the testify's get-go seven episodes, American Dad! has a controversial season number discrepancy in which many are divided as to how many seasons the program has had. Beyond division between media journalists and fans, there has been conflicting reports equally to what flavour the prove is in even between American Dad! creators and the bear witness's official website—both from its original Play tricks website and at present from TBS website. At Comic-Con 2013 on July 20, American Dad! co-creator Mike Barker hinted that an American Dad! picture show—centering on the Roger character and set from his birth planet—is in the works and partially written. What with Barker's deviation from the serial even so, it is unclear if whatsoever of these plans have been scrapped or modified in whatsoever way.

MacFarlane has described the initial seasons of American Dad! as being like to All in the Family, likening title grapheme Stan Smith'due south originally bigoted persona to Archie Bunker. MacFarlane has also stated that his inspiration to create American Dad! derived from his and Weitzman's exasperation with George W. Bush's policies equally one-time U.s. President. After the early couple of seasons nonetheless, the series discontinued using these elements of political satire and began to serve upwards its own make of amusement and humor. MacFarlane was described as having difficulty agreement the series in its early going; yet, he heavily warmed upward to the series after its early on seasons once he felt the show truly came into its ain. His fellow co-creators have sensed this through MacFarlane's profoundly increased attending to the series later on its early on seasons. MacFarlane has also revealed he is an American Dad! fan himself. He has taken note of the positive reaction to the "Roger" character by fans via his Twitter.

The show focuses on the Smith family unit: Stan Smith, the endangering, dog-eat-dog, rash and inconsiderate head of the household. He has an exaggeratedly big chin and masculine manner about him. As the family unit's breadwinner, he works as a CIA officeholder and was initially portrayed in the series as an one-time-fashioned conservative bigot but has since grown out of these traits (the show is known for its story arc elements and other distinguishing plot techniques); Stan's paradoxically moralistic yet simultaneously inappropriate, corrupt wife, Francine; and their two children, new-age hippie daughter Hayley and nerdy son Steve. Accompanying the Smith family are 3 boosted chief characters, two of which belong to not-human species: zany, shocking, blithely cruel and rascally alien Roger, who's full of disguises/alter egos and has few if any limits on his behaviors. He was rescued by Stan from Expanse 51; Klaus, the human being-in-a-fish-body pet. Klaus's unenviable situation came about from the encephalon of an E German Olympic skier existence shrunk and transplanted into a fish body; and Jeff Fischer, Hayley'southward boyfriend turned "whipped" husband, known for his infatuation with Hayley's mom, Francine. Together, the Smiths and their three housemates run what is only at a beginning glance the typical center-course American lifestyle, but is anything but.

Seth MacFarlane provides the voices of Stan and Roger, basing Roger'due south voice on Paul Lynde (who played Uncle Arthur in Bewitched). His sis Rachael MacFarlane provides the voice of Hayley.

The Cleveland Evidence

MacFarlane developed a Family Guy spin-off called The Cleveland Bear witness, which focuses on the character of Cleveland Brownish and his family unit. The idea for the prove originated from a proffer by Family Guy author and phonation of Cleveland, Mike Henry. Fox ordered 26 episodes and the series first aired on September seventh, 2008.

Seth MacFarlane vocalism acted for Tim the Bear and Dr. Fist for the first ii seasons of the show, before quitting and having the characters be replaced by Jess Harnell and Bryan Cranston, respectively.

The Cleveland Show was pronounced, cancelled on April 17th, 2012, leaving it with a total of four seasons and 104 episodes. Shortly after discussion got out about the cancellation, Fox stated that they would be allowing the serial one concluding hour-long episode, to help the series "wrap upwardly nicely". This episode, entitled "Cleveland Moves Out", was released December 16th, 2012, just earlier the premiere of the Family Guy episode, "He's Bla-ack!", which featured Cleveland and Junior returning to the series as well as the introduction of Donna, Roberta, Rallo, and Rock Hudson to the recurring cast.

Bordertown

Bordertown is an irrelevant slice of shit that lasted for one season.

The Orville

On May iv, 2016, FOX picked upwards a sci-fi comedy-drama series called The Orville. The evidence is created, executive-produced, and starred in by MacFarlane. The bear witness is set up 400 years in the future aboard the Orville, a not-so-top-of-the-line exploratory ship in the Wedlock interstellar fleet.

The series premiered during the 2017–2018 flavor, on Sunday, September ten, 2017.

Filmography

Creations

• Family Guy
• American Dad!
• The Cleveland Show
• Ted
• A Million Ways to Die in the Due west
• Ted 2
• Bordertown
• The Orville

Characters

Main Roles

• Peter Griffin
• Stewie Griffin
• Brian Griffin
• Glenn Quagmire

Recurring Roles

• Carter Pewterschmidt
• Kevin Swanson
• Tom Tucker
• Jake Tucker
• Dr. Hartman
• Seamus Levine
• Ida Davis
• God
• Jesus Christ
• Vern and Johnny
• Jasper
• Arthur McArthur
• Kool-Assistance Guy

I-Time Roles

• Bill Clinton
• Tom Hanks
• Mike Brady
• Bigfoot
• Ensign Ricky
• Scooby Doo
• Wiley Coyote
• Henry Douglas
• Speed Racer
• Pops Racer
• Scoutmaster Samuel
• Ted Turner
• George Washington
• Elroy Jetson
• Charles Lindbergh
• Charleton Heston
• Rod Sterling
• Dr. Kevorkian
• Adolf Hitler
• Mike Wallace
• William Shatner
• Robert Kimble
• Albert Einstein
• Rufus Griffin
• Greg Gumbel
• Bryant Gumbel
• Mr. McCloud
• Antonio Monatti
• King Neptune
• The Devil
• Bing Crosby
• Walt Disney
• Bob Ross
• Magic Mollusk
• Ronald McDonald
• Phil
• Tony the Tiger
• Cat in the Hat
• Kurt Cobain
• Greg
• Marty
• Bob
• Jeremy
• Old Yeller
• Ulysses Due south. Griffin
• Robert E. Lee
• Thomas Edison
• Gary Miller
• Herb
• Toucan Sam
• Ricky
• Mike Tyson
• George Due west. Bush
• Al Gore
• Demond Wilson
• Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Father Sapienza
• Eddie the Eskimo
• Christopher Columbus
• Mr. Male
• Gulliermo
• Richard Nixon
• Mayor McCheese
• Jezeziah
• Tom Green
• Trevor
• Carson Daly
• Willie Tanner
• Agent Harris
• Vishnu
• Charles Epstein
• Nate Griffin
• Oasis Griffin
• Thomas Griffin
• Frosty the Snowman
• Simon
• Bamm Bamm Rubble
• Hugh Grant
• Rashad
• Woody Allen
• The Count

• Neville Galdenstock
• Chip Griffin
• Tim Tucker

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