Allen Kelsey Grammer is an American actor, comedian, singer, producer, director, writer, and activist, who is best known for his role as Dr. Frasier Crane on the NBC sitcoms Cheers, Wings, and Frasier. He is also well-known for his voice roles as Sideshow Bob on the popular Fox animated sitcom The Simpsons, Vladimir in Don Bluth's 1997 film Anastasia, Zozi in the 1999 spin-off film Bartok the Magnificent, and Hunter in Warner Animation Group's 2016 film, Storks.
For Disney, he voiced Johnny H. Watson in the 1993 Walt Disney Pictures, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Stinky Pete in the 1999 Disney/Pixar film, Toy Story 2, and reprised this role in the video game of the same name. He also voiced Doctor Frankenollie in the Mickey Mouse short Runaway Brain, Dr. Ivan Krank in the Teacher's Pet movie, and was the Narrator in Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas. He also reprised his role as Frasier in The Magical World of Disney television specials Mickey's 60th Birthday and Disneyland's 35th Anniversary Celebration. He also currently voiced Henry J. Waternoose III and Thorny in Toy Story 5 (since the death of the James Coburn and Alex Rocco) and Turning Red 3 (2028)
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- He was originally going to voice Henry J. Waternoose in the 2013 Pixar film Monsters University, replacing James Coburn (who had died in 2002), but the character was dropped from the film afterwards for unknown reasons, only making a cameo in a picture.
- Grammer was at one point considered for the role of Jafar in Aladdin, but the role eventually went to Jonathan Freeman.[1]