Dave Willis

Dave Willis
Willis at the 2008 DragonCon
Born	David Willis (1970-05-01) May 1, 1970 Wichita Falls, Texas, U.S.
Residence	Atlanta, Georgia
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Wake Forest University
Occupation	Voice actor, writer, producer, director, musician
Years active	1995–present
Known for	Aqua Teen Hunger Force Squidbillies Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell
Home town	Conyers, Georgia
Children	2

David Willis (born May 1, 1970) is an American voice actor, writer, producer and musician who is widely known for his work in animation, particularly his long association with Adult Swim for whom he created the series Aqua Teen Hunger Force, and Squidbillies and worked on other programs like Space Ghost Coast to Coast.^[1] Willis is also known for voicing the character Barry Dylan in the FXX series Archer.

Career

Dave Willis has worked on various Adult Swim shows that are created primarily by Williams Street, an animation-centered, Atlanta-based production division of Cartoon Network. He first got hired for Williams Street (then Ghost Planet Industries) as a writer for Cartoon Planet in 1995 and then as a writer for Space Ghost Coast to Coast (SGC2C for short) soon after. In early 2000 he helped write and produce the two Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak specials.

He was working on Space Ghost Coast to Coast where he first met Matt Maiellaro, with whom Willis would later create many independent short films and eventually create the popular Adult Swim cartoon Aqua Teen Hunger Force. Aqua Teen Hunger Force first premiered unannounced in the early hours of December 30, 2000 and later officially debuted on Adult Swim in the Fall of 2001. In 2005, he co-created the show Squidbillies. His works mostly fall into the genre of surreal humor.

In 2010 Dave Willis created Cheyenne Cinnamon and the Fantabulous Unicorn of Sugar Town Candy Fudge, a new television pilot for Adult Swim. The pilot aired on March 29, 2010, and was not picked up for a full series. In 2010 Willis co-wrote "New Kidney in Town", an episode of Family Guy.

Personal life

Willis was born in Wichita Falls, Texas and was raised mostly in Conyers, Georgia. Willis graduated from Wake Forest University and was station manager at Wake Radio. He resides in Atlanta with his wife and two children.

Filmography

See also

• Aqua Teen Hunger Force

References

External links

• Dave Willis on IMDb
• Interview with Dave Willis on public radio program The Sound of Young America
• Dave Willis on Twitter
  
• The Swimcast – interview with Dave Willis, 2008-12-12
• The Swimcast – interview with Dave Willis, 2011-5-12