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Gilbert Jeremy Gottfried was an American actor, voice actor, and stand-up comedian, who was best known for his unmistakable exaggerated loud, shrill nasally voice.

Gottfried's most prominent Disney role was as the voice of Iago in the Aladdin film trilogy and TV series. He also appeared in Episode 207 of Muppets Tonight, alongside Dennis Quaid, guest-starred in an episode of Hannah Montana, and played Mike McNasty in Adventures in Wonderland. Additionally, he voiced Two-Bits in Bonkers, the Woodpecker in Timon & Pumbaa, Minister Clion in the Hercules TV series, himself in The Replacements, and another parrot in Beverly Hills Family Robinson.

Outside of Disney, Gottfried was well-known for his voice roles as Digit in the 2002 PBS Kids show Cyberchase and the Aflac Duck mascot in several TV commercials until March 2011, when he was fired for telling jokes about the tsunami/earthquake in Japan on his Twitter account. He also played Igor Peabody in the Problem Child film trilogy and voiced him in the animated series of the same name, Kraang Subprime in Nickelodeon's 2012 series of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and portrayed Abraham Lincoln (cameo) in the 2014 Western comedy film A Million Ways to Die in the West. His other film credits included Beverly Hills Cop II, Thumbelina, Look Who's Talking Too, and Dr. Dolittle. Additionally, he worked on live-action and animated television shows, such as Duckman, Wings, Superman: The Animated Series, The Fairly OddParents, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and Anger Management.

Gottfried was also a semi-regular on the NBC game show Hollywood Squares. In one memorable episode, the contestants had a difficult time trying to capture his square in the very first game of the day for a five-square win, as he responded at their failed attempts with, "You fool!" He was finally captured on a question regarding what two words combine to form the word "smog". After a bluff answer of "smelly fog", he correctly answered with "smoke" and "fog", to which the contestant in control correctly agreed with him and won the game, just as time ran out.

On April 12, 2022, at the age of 67, Gottfried died in the New York City borough of Manhattan from recurrent ventricular tachycardia that was complicated by type II myotonic dystrophy.

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