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Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, commonly referred to in-show as either Professor Farnsworth or simply Professor, is a fictional character in the American animated television series Futurama. The mad scientist proprietor of the Planet Express delivery service for whom the main characters work, he is the great (×30) grandnephew of series ...
Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth (voiced by Billy West) – Professor Farnsworth, also known simply as "the Professor", is Fry's distant nephew, and technically descendant. [21] Farnsworth founds Planet Express Inc. to fund his work as a mad scientist. Although he is depicted as a brilliant scientist and inventor, at more than 160 years old he is ...
William Richard Werstine [1] [4] (born April 16, 1952), [5] [2] known professionally as Billy West, is an American voice actor, musician and radio personality.His voice roles include Bugs Bunny in the 1996 film Space Jam and several subsequent projects, the title characters of Doug and The Ren & Stimpy Show, and the Futurama characters Philip J. Fry, Professor Farnsworth, Dr. Zoidberg, Zapp ...
The real-life Gore has said that Futurama is his favorite show. His daughter, Kristin Gore , was a writer for the show in its later seasons. [ 50 ] [ 52 ] Gore has also voiced the cartoon version of himself in "A Terrifying Message from Al Gore", the promotional video for An Inconvenient Truth along with John DiMaggio , the voice of Bender ...
In 1999 he gave his voice to Professor Farnsworth from Futurama for the first five seasons of the show, until he was replaced by Mino Caprio in the second run of the show. Retirement and death [ edit ]
Professor Hubert Farnsworth is the distant nephew of Philip J. Fry and his only living family member in the 31st century aside from Cubert and Igner. He runs a small delivery service to fund his scientific research and gives Fry, Leela, and Bender jobs. Although the professor is an accomplished scientist, he is often cruel and senile.
Farnsworth, who was most likely a Puritan beforehand, became a Catholic. He changed his name to Claude Mathias Phaneuf and was granted land to start a new life. "Talk about being saved," Meloni ...
The crew sneak in with Fry dressed up as Farnsworth, with Cubert on his back posing as a hump to make him look "old", carrying a jar full of Cubert's blood as a DNA sample. They locate the professor, who is unconscious and hooked to a life-support system. The robots discover the crew, who then race back to the Planet Express Ship, Farnsworth in ...