All 10 Family Guy Characters Voiced By Patrick Stewart

Patrick Stewart has a long and storied history with Family Guy, with the actor returning time and again to play roles old and new. As one of Seth MacFarlane’s most frequent collaborators, Stewart has lent his signature British accent to 10 Family Guy characters over the years. Perhaps unsurprisingly, all of Patrick Stewart’s personas have the same voice, which is where much of the comedy comes from. However, his delivery in each of his episodes also displays the actor’s impeccable comedic timing and sense of humor.

Stewart is most renowned for his live-action dramatic roles, such as Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Captain Jean-Luc Picard and X-Men‘s Professor Charles Xavier. The English actor has built up an impressive portfolio during his decades-long career and has shared his talents and experience to help create some of the best episodes of Family Guy. While some of Stewart’s Family Guy characters are clever references to his acting past, many are just fun cameos with no real explanation.

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10 “Patrick Stewart As A Water Bear”

This is one of Patrick Stewart’s most unusual Family Guy roles

Patrick Stewart isn’t beyond showing up for a non-sequitur. In Family Guy season 17, episode 4, “Big Trouble in Little Quahog,” Brian and Stewie shrink down and get lost among the fibers of Stewie’s bedroom carpet. They’re greeted by a cohort of tardigrades, also known as water bears, one of which introduces himself as, “Patrick Stewart, as a water bear.” The character certainly lives up to his name, as he is just the actor in tardigrade form. He doesn’t have much more dialogue beyond yelling out his own name again later in the episode.

9 Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Family Guy allowed Patrick Stewart to reprise the role of his famous Star Trek character

Family Guy‘s hilarious cutaway gags have become a major hallmark of the show, and many of them can be completely unrelated to the episode’s main story. While certain cutaways are completely random, others reference pre-existing shows and movies. As a known Star Trek fan, Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane has parodied the franchise countless times. This trend meant that Stewart briefly voices his character from Star Trek: The Next Generation in Family Guy season 4, episode 11, “Peter’s Got Woods.” The sequence is only brief, but also rewarding for Star Trek fans as well as being comical.

8 Patrick Stewart

The actor has also played a fictionalized version of himself in Family Guy

For all of Patrick Stewart’s outlandish Family Guy roles, one of his most memorable appearances on the show involves him playing himself. Family Guy season 7, episode 11, “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven” shows Stewie essentially abducting the entire cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation and spending the day with them. Stewart, along with the rest of his Star Trek cast mates, portrays himself as especially antagonistic and hard to deal with for comic effect.

7 Melvin Shivelman In Woody Allen’s “Bananas Over Broadway”

This Patrick Stewart character only appears on the Family Guy DVDs

The extended cut of Family Guy season 7, episode 10, “FOX-y Lady,” which features only on the DVDs, shows Patrick Stewart in a role written by a fictional version of Woody Allen. The character was supposed to be played by the fake Allen himself within the world of Family Guy. Bananas Over Broadway is a parody of Allen’s 1994 movie, Bullets Over Broadway. Stewart’s Family Guy avatar is made to look like a poor imitation of Woody Allen due to the gag being a reference to questionable casting techniques.

6 Susie Swanson’s Internal Monologue

Susie’s lack of dialogue allows for this recurring Patrick Stewart joke

Patrick Stewart doesn’t tend to return to his Family Guy roles, but Susie Swanson is one of the exceptions. This is a rather unique role for Stewart as only the audience can hear his lines as Susie. The Swanson baby’s inner monologue makes a reappearance sporadically throughout Family Guy. It’s unclear whether the voice is canonically Susie’s or whether Patrick Stewart is interpreting for her. His first line as Susie is the fourth-wall-breaking, “This is Patrick Stewart, how are you liking the program so far?” However, later instances aren’t so meta.

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5 The Narrator

Patrick Stewart ends an episode of Family Guy as a faceless narrator

Family Guy season 12, episode 2, “Vestigial Peter,” features Patrick Stewart without the actor ever needing an animated body. Instead, he simply gives a brief account of what becomes of Peter’s vestigial twin once he leaves the Griffins. Stewart doesn’t introduce himself before his smattering of dialogue in the episode, but his recognizable voice makes it clear he has returned to the show in a minor capacity.

4 Peter Griffin

Stewart briefly takes over the portrayal of the show’s main character

The cutaways in Family Guy allow viewers to take a look into the musings of a great many of its characters, even for incidents that don’t actually happen. The show’s comedic device shows a reverie of Peter’s in Family Guy season 5, episode 14, “No Meals on Wheels” where he imagines what it would be like to swap vocal cords with Patrick Stewart in the wake of his new-found fortune. Seeing Patrick Stewart’s voice leaving Peter Griffin’s mouth is jarring at first, but it becomes fairly normal in a suspiciously short space of time.

3 Richard “Dick” Pump

This character is part of a Family Guy bait-and-switch

Dick Pump is surprisingly one of Stewart’s most fleshed-out original Family Guy characters, which isn’t saying much because little is known about him beyond his unfortunate name and unusual running style. Dick’s sole appearance comes in Family Guy season 9, episode 4, “Halloween on Spooner Street”, when he collects a package with his name on it that has been mistakenly delivered to Quagmire. As with the actor’s other Family Guy roles, Dick Pump sounds very similar to Patrick Stewart.

2 Avery Bullock

Bullock is a character from another Seth MacFarlane show

Patrick Stewart’s working relationship with Seth MacFarlane goes beyond the occasional Family Guy role. Stewart is part of the main cast of American Dad!, which is another of MacFarlane’s animated sitcoms. Stewart’s American Dad! character of Avery Bullock crosses over to Family Guy in season 6 episode 5, “Lois Kills Stewie (Part 2).” Ultimately, Bullock’s brief cameo in Family Guy is revealed to be part of a much larger simulation being run by Stewie, but it’s still a fun moment for American Dad! fans. Stewart lends his likeness as well as his voice to Bullock in both shows.

1 An Unnamed Talking Cat

The feline character claims to be an academic

Patrick Stewart isn’t against taking on more thankless roles, such as voicing a cat with no name. At first glance, the cat in the Family Guy season 9 opener, “And Then There Were Fewer,” appears to be a run-of-the-mill domestic pet, but it quickly transpires that the cat speaks perfect English and even holds the title of professor. The strangeness of the exchange perfectly captures the willingness of Patrick Stewart to take any Family Guy role he believes he can do justice, regardless of the character’s species.