Biography for
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Date of Birth

17 October 1962, Guayaquil, Ecuador

Birth Name

Michael Craig Judge

Height

5' 10" (1.78 m)

Spouse

Francesca Morocco

(February 1989 - ?) (divorced) 2 children

Trade Mark

His films usually center around a put-upon, likeable everyman-type responding to the extreme characters around him

His works frequently feature a bevy of extremely idiotic characters

Most of his films are set in Texas or elsewhere in the Southern United States

Trivia

Received a BS in physics from the University of California, San Diego.

He participated in Boy Scouts as a cub scout.

Raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Co-founded The Animation Show in 2003, a festival of animation that put animated short films into more movie theaters in North America than any other in history.

He created "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993) for MTV and "King of the Hill" (1997) for Fox. In late 1996 he was determined to get "King of the Hill" (1997) off the ground and bring "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993) to an end. This resulted in a struggle with both networks as he tried to convince them that they were two completely separate shows. Wanting to work on "King of the Hill" (1997) for Fox while not completely turning his back on MTV, he relented to allowing a series focusing on "Daria" (1997) but wanted to put the project in someone else's hands.

The characters of Mr. Tom Anderson (from "Beavis and Butt-Head" (1993)) and Hank Hill (from "King of the Hill" (1997)) are based, in part, on his experiences with his neighbors in Texas.

Played bass guitar for Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets, a Dallas based blues band, and for Doyle Bramhall, a Texas-based musician.

Speaks fluent Spanish.

He was inducted into the Texas Film Hall of Fame in March 2007 in Austin, Texas.

Has a child, Charles Judge (born April 4, 2007) with Katrina Bronson.

He has played the same character (Hank Hill) on four different television series: "King of the Hill" (1997), "The Simpsons" (1989), "The Cleveland Show" (2009) and "Family Guy" (1999).

Good friends with Seth MacFarlane.

Personal Quotes

They say it figures MTV would do such a vulgar, awful, horrible show and they completely miss that it's satirizing the people who watch MTV.

When the show started out, it was like all of a sudden we had to do 35 episodes and we had just a month and a half to write them, and it took me a while to realize that I was in charge.

When I was a kid it was like, who could be the coolest? Who could do the stupidest thing? And you knew it was a stupid thing to do, but you would do it just so you could be the coolest guy. And then you end up doing really cruel crap.

You ought to try being cruel to some people.

Why should every single character be an honor student who goes around helping others and never doing anything wrong? Is that like the rule or something?