37 Facts About Phil Hendrie

Philip Stephen Hendrie is an American radio personality and actor.

Phil Hendrie is widely known for his voiceover talent throughout the radio and film industry.

Phil Hendrie came to prominence in the 1990s hosting The Phil Hendrie Show, a radio talk show where he portrayed both himself as a calm, rational host while simultaneously portraying any of several outrageous and offensive characters who would engage in debates with both Hendrie as well as actual listeners calling in to the show.

Phil Hendrie knew then he wanted to work in radio one day.

Phil Hendrie was one of four children in an upper-middle-class Catholic family and was an altar boy at Arcadia's Holy Angels Church.

Phil Hendrie's father was a Sales Executive who came to Los Angeles in 1950 after serving in the Canadian Army during World War II.

Phil Hendrie's father moved to Europe and married a woman who had four kids.

Phil Hendrie got a job in construction working on the build-out of Walt Disney World.

Phil Hendrie made a demo tape and got his first DJ job at WBJW in Winter Park, Florida a city just outside Orlando, in May of 1973.

Phil Hendrie would go on from there to spin records up until 1988 in Miami.

In late September 1990, Phil Hendrie introduced his first fictional on-air character on his radio talk show: Iraqi Raj Fahneen.

An entire cast of characters evolved, and in 18 months Phil Hendrie took the show to major market stations in Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Miami and eventually back to Los Angeles.

Phil Hendrie's popularity resulted in the radio show going national in 1999 via Premiere Radio Networks, a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications.

On February 23,2012, Phil Hendrie announced to his fans via Twitter and the show's website that February 25,2012, would be his last KFI show.

In 2014 Phil Hendrie announced he would be leaving over-air broadcasting for good.

Phil Hendrie then switched to an all-digital format of his show that was listenable online, airing Monday-Friday at 9am Pacific time, accessible from his website or via the smartphone application TuneIn.

From 1999 to 2009, Phil Hendrie voiced characters on the hit animated TV series King of the Hill.

Phil Hendrie voiced a variety of characters for several episodes of Futurama from 2000 to 2002 and played three characters on the 2009 feature-length video Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder.

From 2001 to 2002, Phil Hendrie appeared in the TV series Andy Richter Controls the Universe and in Judd Apatow's TV movie North Hollywood.

Phil Hendrie starred in a TV pilot he wrote and executive produced for NBC called Phil at the Gate the same year.

From 2006 to 2007, Phil Hendrie had a recurring role in David Mamet's series The Unit and appeared in five episodes.

Phil Hendrie was in the 2006 TV movie Three Strikes.

In 2008, Phil Hendrie played the New Jersey Nets coach in the comedy film Semi-Pro starring Will Ferrell.

Also that year, Phil Hendrie had parts in the TV movies Mike Birbiglia's Secret Public Journal and Giants of Radio.

Also out in 2012 was the film Last Call, in which Phil Hendrie was cast as the liquor company representative, Mulvahill.

In 2013, Phil Hendrie contributed voice work for the critically acclaimed Adult Swim show Rick and Morty.

In 2014, Phil Hendrie played a fictionalized version of himself in the TV series Maron, and narrated a segment of the Comedy Central program Drunk History on the show's episode featuring the story of the late Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye.

In 2015, Phil Hendrie joined F is for Family to play various background characters.

In 2016, Phil Hendrie was featured on Disney's animated series The 7D as a Park Ranger and as a Chef - the dialogue for both roles being entirely improvised by Phil Hendrie.

In 2019, Phil Hendrie rejoined the cast of Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell - created by Dave Willis and Casper Kelly - with the on-screen role of "Stan the Man".

Later that same year, Phil Hendrie played the role of Mr Grayson in the ABC sitcom The Conners.

Also in 2019, Phil Hendrie was set to play the lead as an "insane" grandparent in the CBS' multi-camera comedy, Our House, opposite of Katherine Heigl and Malcolm Barrett.

In 2020, Phil Hendrie performed the voice of Albert Einstein in the hit CBS sitcom, Young Sheldon and cast as Police Captain Entenille in a 2024 horror comedy film Destroy All Neighbors.

Phil Hendrie created his website in 1999 during his syndication deal with Premiere Radio Networks.

In 2012, Hendrie extended his brand to Pandora with a collection of comedy bits featuring such characters as Jay Santos, Chris Norton, Bobbie Dooley, David G Hall and Ted Bell.

In 2013, it was announced that Phil Hendrie partnered with LEG Digital and Courtside Media's Launchpad Digital Media to increase his growing digital fan base.

On June 17,2024, Phil Hendrie was announced by Museum of Broadcast Communications as an inductee into the Radio Hall of Fame for 2024.