John Ratzenberger

I have a soft spot for John Ratzenberger because he perfected something deceptively hard: being reliably, unobtrusively great. Cliff Clavin on Cheers could have been a one-joke barfly, yet he sustained the know-it-all mailman for over a decade and earned two Emmy nominations doing it. His long second act as a voice actor proves the point — a voice so trustworthy that studios kept calling. Born in working-class Bridgeport, he carries an everyman authenticity that cannot be taught. He will never headline a retrospective, but for me, character actors like him are the load-bearing walls of American comedy.

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Name (English)

John Ratzenberger

Name (Japanese)

ジョン・ラッツェンバーガー

Reading

じょん・らっつぇんばーがー

Born

April 6, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States

Height

177 cm

Occupation

voice actor / stage actor / film actor / television actor / screenwriter

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

University

Sacred Heart University

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttp://nutsandboltsfoundation.org/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ratzenberger
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B8%E3%83%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A7%E3%83%B3%E3%83%90%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q374093

Tags

• Connecticut
• voice actor
• stage actor
• film actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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