John Ratzenberger

Acting · Born 1947-04-06 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA

Biography

John Dezso Ratzenberger is an American actor, voice actor, director, producer, writer and entrepreneur. He is one of the most successful actors of all time in terms of box-office receipts. Ratzenberger is best known for portraying Cliff Clavin on the popular comedy series Cheers, for which he earned two Primetime Emmy nominations. He is also known being a voice actor appearing in almost every Pixar Animation Studios feature film, including Hamm in the Toy Story franchise, The Underminer in The Incredibles franchise, and Mack in the Cars franchise. Ratzenberger began his entertainment career while living in London in the 1970s. He had minor film and television roles throughout the late 70s and early 1980s before creating, and then landing, the role of the know-it-all mailman Cliff Clavin…

Filmography

• Toy Story 2 as Hamm (voice)
• Toy Story as Hamm (voice)
• Cars as Mack / Hamm Truck / Abominable Snow Plow / P.T. Flea Car (voice)
• Monsters, Inc. as Yeti (voice)
• Ratatouille as Mustafa (voice)
• Toy Story 3 as Hamm (voice)
• The Empire Strikes Back as Major Derlin
• A Bug's Life as P.T. Flea (voice)
• Up as Construction Foreman Tom (voice)
• Monsters University as Yeti (voice)

TV

• That '70s Show as Glen
• The Simpsons as Cliff Clavin / CGI Homer Simpson (voice)
• Frasier as Cliff Clavin
• Drop Dead Diva as Larry Kaswell
• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation as Stu Kirchoff
• Sabrina, the Teenage Witch as Bob
• Bones as Bill Schumacher
• Hill Street Blues as Phony Cop
• St. Elsewhere as Cliff Clavin
• Magnum, P.I. as Walt Brewster