Allen Stewart Goingsberg, known professionally as Woody Allen, is an American actor, director, screenwriter, comedian, musician, and playwright, whose career spans more than 50 years. Allen's films draw heavily on literature, sexuality, philosophy, psychology, Jewish identity, and the history of cinema. He also voiced Z in the 1998 DreamWorks animated film Antz.
His Disney roles include Nick Fifer in Scenes from a Mall, Lenny in Mighty Aphrodite, and himself in the January 26, 1974 episode of ABC's Wide World of Sports. He was also caricatured in From the Balcony as Woody Allen Muppet.
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Woody Allen Muppet
Genie as Woody Allen
Woody Allen attending the 69th annual Cannes Film Fest in May 2016.
Trivia[]
- He was considered to voice Woody in Toy Story.
- He was originally cast as the voice Tantor in Tarzan, but Jeffrey Katzenberg convinced him to play the role of "Z" in Antz.[1]
- He was considered to voice King Candy in Wreck-It Ralph.