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Mike Judge
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Director, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Actor, Presented by, Show Creator
Born:
October 17, 1963 in Guayasquil, Ecuador
Biography:A former engineer, "Mike Judge" achieved animation renown for his dead-on idiot savant satire of American suburban teen culture in the MTV phenomenon Beavis and Butt-Head.

Born in Ecuador and raised in Albuquerque, NM, Judge got a degree in physics at U.C. San Diego. Relocating to Texas, Judge worked as an engineer and also tried to forge a career as a musician, but found that animation was his preferred calling. After a Dallas animation festival, Judge's 1991 short "Office Space" was picked up by Comedy Central. His 1992 short Frog Baseball, featuring two sadistic teen cretins voiced by Judge, subsequently led to a 1993 MTV animated series revolving around the heavy metal-loving adolescents Beavis and Butthead.

Anchored by the pair's witty critiques of music videos ("this blows, huh-huh-huh"), Beavis and Butt-Head attracted devout fans with its astutely low-brow take on the teen boy culture of... Full Biography

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Director Mike Judge, left, on the set of "Extract"
"The Goode Family" (Wednesday, May 27, at 9 p.m. on ABC)A new animated comedy from Mike Judge ("King...
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Mike Judge at the "Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams" Premiere
Mike Judge at the "Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams" Premiere
Mike Judge at the "Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams" Premiere
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