Phil Hendrie
| Phil Hendrie | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Philip Stephen Hendrie September 1, 1952 Arcadia, California, U.S. |
| Occupation | Radio Personality, Actor, Voice-over Artist, Entrepreneur |
| Years active | 1973–present |
| Known for | Radio satire |
| Notable work | The Phil Hendrie Show |
| Home town | Arcadia, California |
| Website | PhilHendrieShow.com |
Philip Stephen "Phil" Hendrie (born September 1, 1952) is an American radio personality, actor, and voiceover artist. He is widely known for his voiceover talent throughout the radio and film industry. He 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 Hendrie and callers to the show.
Hendrie has also done acting, notably a recurring role on the drama The Unit and as multiple characters on the animated comedies Futurama and King of the Hill.
Hendrie was born and raised in Arcadia, California. In 1958 when Hendrie was five years old, his family took a road trip to visit relatives in Toronto, Canada. They listened to the radio the whole way. He knew then he wanted to work in radio one day. He was one of four children in an upper-middle-class Catholic family and an altar boy at Arcadia's Holy Angels Church.
Hendrie's father was a salesman who came to Los Angeles in 1950 after serving in the Canadian army during World War II. When Hendrie was 12 years old, listening to radio was his escape. He was a huge fan of the Top 40 D.J. "Emperor" Bob Hudson and once rode his bike to radio station KRLA in Pasadena to meet him.
When he was 13 years old, Hendrie's parents divorced. His father moved to Europe and married a woman who had four kids. Hendrie's family home was repossessed, forcing them to move into a small rented apartment where he slept on the couch during his high school years. After graduating from high school, Hendrie attended Pasadena City College to earn an English degree. After one year at college, he left for Orlando, Florida, in the mid 1970s. He got a job in construction working on the build-out of Disney World.
Hendrie made a demo tape and got his first DJ job at WBJW in Winter Park, a city just outside Orlando, in 1971 at age 19. In 1978, he left WBJW to do evenings at WNOE-FM in the French Quarter of New Orleans. He would go on from there to spin records up until 1988 in Miami, San Diego, Los Angeles, Utica and Fresno.
In 1989, Phil returned to the Los Angeles area to debut as a weekend talk show host on KFI, a news/talk station.
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