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Mike Judge
Judge at the Texas Film Hall of Fame awards ceremony, March 2008
Born	Michael Craig Judge October 17, 1962 (1962-10-17) (age 47) Guayaquil, Ecuador
Education	Bachelor of Science in physics, University of California, San Diego (1985)
Occupation	Animator, film director, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	1991 – present
Known for	Film: -Extract -Idiocracy -Office Space Television: -Beavis and Butt-Head -King of the Hill
Spouse(s)	Francesca Morocco (1989-?; divorced)
Children	-Julia Evelyn Judge -Lily Marie Judge -Charles Michael Judge

Michael Craig "Mike" Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American animator, film director and voice actor, best known as the creator and star of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997) King of the Hill (1997–2009) and The Goode Family (2009–).

He also wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006) and Extract (2009). Judge is also known for his role in the Spy Kids movie franchise.

He had been working on a new show, The Goode Family, on ABC,which was released in late 2009 and currently runs on Comedy Central.

Early life and education

Born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, Judge was raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he attended St. Pius X high school. He is the son of anthropologist Jim Judge and Margaret Blue, a librarian. Judge graduated with a Bachelor of Science in physics in 1985 from the University of California, San Diego.

Career

In 1991, Judge's short film "Office Space" (also known as the Milton series of shorts) was acquired by Comedy Central, following a Dallas animation festival.

In 1992, he developed Frog Baseball, a short film featuring the characters Beavis and Butt-Head, to be featured on Liquid Television, a 1990s animation showcase that appeared on MTV, another cable- and satellite-television channel. The short led to the creation of the Beavis and Butt-Head series on MTV, in which Judge voiced both title characters as well as the majority of supporting characters. Beavis and Butt-Head visited Wilson Middle School and attended Highland High School in their series, which are the names of schools in Albuquerque, Judge's hometown. The series ran from 1993 to 1997 and spawned the feature-length film, Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996).

In 1997, Judge created King of the Hill for the Fox broadcast-television network. Many of the show's characters were based on people he had known while living in Texas. Judge continued his voice acting, playing both Hank Hill and Boomhauer.

In 1999, he wrote and directed the live-action comedy film Office Space, which was based in part on the Milton series of cartoons he had created for the NBC broadcast-television network's Saturday Night Live. In the film, he made a cameo appearance as Stan (complete with hairpiece and fake mustache), the manager of Chotchkie's, a fictionalized parody of chain restaurants like Applebee's and TGI Friday's. The film, for which the budget was approximately US$10 million, grossed only $10.8 million in initial release.^[1] However, as of mid-2006, Office Space had sold nearly six million home-video copies.^[2]

Since fall 2003, Judge and fellow animator Don Hertzfeldt have run a very successful^{[citation needed]} animation festival, "The Animation Show." Judge created an appearance for Beavis and Butt-head featured in The Animation Show 2007.^{[citation needed]} "The Animation Show" tours the country every year, screening animated shorts from mostly independent animators.^{[citation needed]}

In 2005, Mike Judge was presented with the Austin Film Festival's Outstanding Television Writer Award by Johnny Hardwick.

Judge's film, Idiocracy (2006), a dystopian comedy starring Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph, was given a limited release theatrically by 20th Century Fox in September 2006, two years after production. The film was released without a trailer or substantial marketing campaign.^[3] In the U.S., the film was released to DVD in January 2007 and later aired on premium-television, multiplex channels: Cinemax in September 2007 and HBO in January 2008. Since then, it has gained a cult following.^[4]

He has made cameo appearances in numerous films, including the comedy Jackass Number Two (2006), in which he can be seen during the closing credits. An extended version can be seen in Jackass 2.5 (2007) which was a direct-to-video release. Judge also created a video clip of Beavis and Butt-Head ripping into Steve-O for his video Poke the Puss, where the two try imagining if they would like the video better if they were black. The clip aired as a part of Jackassworld.com: 24-Hour Takeover, a February 23, 2008, television special on MTV to coincide with the official launch of jackassworld.com.

Judge's comedy film Extract, in which he makes an uncredited appearance as 'Jim', a union organizer, was released on September 4, 2009.^[5][6]

His animated series "The Goode Family" which debuted on ABC and was canceled shortly thereafter,aired January 4, 2010 on Comedy Central as reruns to be evaluated for new episodes.

Personal life

Judge lives in Austin, Texas. He plays bass guitar, occasionally sitting in with a band.^[7]

Filmography

• The Honky Problem (director, actor, producer, animator) (1991)
• Office Space (Milton/SNL shorts) (director, actor, producer, animator, music) (1991)
• Frog Baseball (director, writer, producer, animator) (1992)
• Peace, Love and Understanding (director, writer, producer, animator) (1992)
• Beavis and Butt-head (creator, director, writer, actor, executive producer, character designer, creative consultant, creative supervisor, musical theme) (1993–1997)
• Airheads (the voices of Beavis and Butthead on the radio) (1994)
• Beavis and Butt-head Do America (director, writer, actor) (1996)
• The Simpsons ("Bart Star" episode) (1997)
• King of the Hill (creator, actor, executive producer) (1997–2009)
• Office Space (director, writer, actor) (1999)
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (played 'Kenny's Goodbye' as is credited) (1999)
• Serving Sara Motel manager
• Spy Kids (played 'Donnagon/Donnamight') (2001)
• Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (played 'Donnagon Giggles') (2002)
• Frasier (played 'Sexual harassment facilitator') (2003)
• Spy Kids 3D: Game Over (played 'Donnagon Giggles') (2003)
• Idiocracy (director, writer, story, producer) (2006)
• Jackass Number Two (cameo) (2006)
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force (2006) (one episode)
• The Animation Show - Beavis and Butt-head Introduction (animator) (2007)
• The Goode Family (creator, actor, executive producer) (2009)
• Extract (writer, director, producer) (2009)

References

External links

• Mike Judge at the Internet Movie Database
• Gladstone, Neil (December 19–26, 1996). "Mike Judge" (interview). Philadelphia City Paper. Accessed December 30, 2009.