--- name: "Justin Roiland" canonical: "https://film.one/person/justin-roiland" roles: ["Producer","Director"] born: "21 February 1980" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "producer" average_over: 0 updated: "2026-09-17T22:01:22.134581+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Justin Roiland Producer and director. Born 21 February 1980 in Stockton, California, USA. ## Details - **Work:** Producer, Director - **Born:** 21 February 1980, Stockton, California, USA - **Also known as:** Mark Justin Roiland, جستن رويلند - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Roiland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6318075, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1551598/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1245733 ## Streaming the US now - **Disney+:** [*Rick and Morty*](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md) (78) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Fi1m on Justin Roiland > Justin Roiland's contribution to animation is a way of talking: the belch halfway through a sentence, the fluffed line left in. It made *Rick and Morty* sound like nothing else on television, and it turns out to be a narrower gift than the programme's early brilliance suggested. Rick Sanchez belches in the middle of a word and carries on as if nothing happened. Morty stammers, gets two syllables in, and is talked over. For most of *Rick and Morty* (2013) both voices came out of Justin Roiland, and the rhythm of the programme, two people never letting each other finish, was the rhythm of one man riffing against himself in a booth. He kept the takes that went wrong. "My big thing is outtakes as 'in-takes'," he told an interviewer in 2017, and you can hear it: the slur, the false start, the sentence that gives up halfway. He came to it through the Channel 101 short-film festival in Los Angeles, where he had been making shorts from 2004 and where he met Dan Harmon. One of those shorts, *The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti* (2006), already had the premise and the voices; *Rick and Morty* arrived in December 2013 as the cleaned-up version, with Roiland co-creating, writing, directing episodes and voicing both leads. In 2020 he and others made *Solar Opposites*, in which he wrote and voiced Korvo, another alien with no patience for anyone slower than himself. His association with both series ended in 2023, and in the later seasons of *Rick and Morty* Rick and Morty are voiced by Ian Cardoni and Harry Belden. What works is the naturalism. Most animated comedy is recorded clean and cut to the beat; Roiland's people sound like they are actually in the garage, drunk, interrupting. We laughed at Rick more than we have laughed at almost anything drawn, in those first two seasons, and it was the voice that did it: a genius running over the ends of everyone else's sentences because he has already worked out what they were going to say. What works less well is that the trick does not go very far. The criticism that he has a small number of core voices and rings changes on them is fair, and it gets fairer the longer you listen. Rick and Korvo are cousins. By the later seasons of *Rick and Morty*, which we found patchier and fonder of their own reflection, we caught ourselves listening to one performer doing two people rather than to two people. Harmon is the collaborator who matters. The structure, the sitcom bones under the sci-fi, the family in the kitchen that gives Rick's contempt something to land on: those are shared work, and the show is at its best when the writing holds the voice to a story rather than letting it wander. The programme went on without him, and we noticed for an episode and then stopped. That is a compliment to Cardoni and Belden. It says rather more about how much of Rick was always on the page. ## Biography Justin Roiland is an American voice actor, animator, writer and producer. He co-created the Adult Swim series *Rick and Morty* (2013) with Dan Harmon and voiced the protagonists Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith until 2022. He has provided voices for characters in *Adventure Time* (2010), *Gravity Falls* (2012), *Fish Hooks* (2010) and *Solar Opposites* (2020). Adult Swim and Hulu ended their association with him in 2023. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, nytimes.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Rick and Morty* (2013), Fi1m 78, as Rick Sanchez / Morty Smith (voice) — [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md) ## Complete filmography (100) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *King Star King* (2023), Hank Waffles, Writer - *Koala Man* (2023), series, as Chad Wagon (voice), Executive Producer - *The Paloni Show! Halloween Special!* (2022), as Leroy Peloni (voice), Executive Producer - *Vindicators 2* (2022), series, as Noob Noob (voice) - *The Boys Presents: Diabolical* (2022), series, Papers / Narrator’s Dad / Picante’s Dad (voice), Writer - *A Very Merry Rickmas Yule Log* (2021), as Producer - *Space Jam: A New Legacy* (2021), as Rick Sanchez / Morty Smith (voice) - *INVINCIBLE* (2021), series, as Doug Cheston / Punk Kid (voice) - *Solar Opposites* (2020), series, Korvo (voice), Executive Producer, Writer, Creator - *All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite* (2019), series, as Rick Sanchez (voice) / Morty Smith (voice) - *Invader Zim: Enter the Florpus* (2019), as Foodio 3000 / Weird Alien #1 / Excited Audience Member (voice) - *Smallfoot* (2018), as Garry (voice) - *Blark and Son* (2018), series, as Junior (voice) - *Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity* (2018), as Char (voice) - *Hot Streets* (2018), series, as Chubbie Webbers (voice) - *Mystery Science Theater 3000* (2017), series, Gizmonic Institute Emergency Announcer (voice), Writer - *Gravity Falls: Between the Pines* (2016), as Blendin (Voice) - *Animals.* (2016), series, as H&M (voice) - *Future-Worm!* (2016), series, as General Couponocus (voice), Professor Gigglesnorp (voice) / General Couponocus (voice), Homework Android (voice), Professor Gigglesnorp (voice), Mr. Clock Face (voice), General Couponocus (voice) / Commandant Giflington (voice) - *Krampus* (2015), as Clumpy (voice) - *Pig Goat Banana Cricket* (2015), series, as Psychopath Giraffe (voice), Radical Rick (voice), Psychopath Giraffe / Radical Rick (voice) - *Star vs. the Forces of Evil* (2015), series, as Doop-Doop (voice) - *The Cyanide & Happiness Show* (2014), series, as Boss (voice) - *Rick and Morty* (2013), series, Rick Sanchez / Morty Smith (voice), Executive Producer, Director, Writer, Creator — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md) - *The Animated Tales of GWAR* (2013), as Little Boy - *The Littlest Sketch Show* (2013), series, as Husband - *Uncle Grandpa* (2013), series, as Additional Voices (voice) - *Out There* (2013), series, as Chris Novak - *Super F*ckers* (2012), series, as Orange Lightning (voice) / Vortex (voice) - *Icons of Teen* (2012), series, as Teenage Dumbledore - *Little Dipper* (2012), Little Dipper (voice), Director - *Princess Kazoo's Kartoon Show* (2012), series, as The Simptsons - *Gravity Falls* (2012), series, as Additional Voices (voice), Bobby Renzobbi (voice) / Additional Voices (voice), Bobby Renzobbi (voice), Blendin Blandin (voice) — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/tv/gravity-falls.md) - *Fred & Vinnie* (2011), as Pizza Delivery Guy - *Fish Hooks* (2010), series, Oscar (voice), Story - *Adventure Time* (2010), series, as Lemonpink (voice), Earl of Lemongrab (voice), Earl of Lemongrab (voice) / Lemongrab 2 (voice), Earl of Lemongrab (voice) / Starfish Martian (voice), Lemonpink (voice) / Gummy Fish (voice) - *Santa Buddies* (2009), as Chihuahua (uncredited) - *Community* (2009), series, as Ice Cube Head (voice) — Fi1m 83, [page](https://film.one/tv/community.md) - *Everything* (2009), series, Director - *The Vacationaires* (2009), series, as Travel Agent - *Adventures in Advertising* (2009), series, as Huggin's Diaper (voice) - *Marooned?* (2009), as Cadet Moore - *The Mountain* (2008), series, Batman / Phillip Panda / Jojo the Elephant / Wake Johnson, Mogul Jones / Wake Johnson, Mogul Jones, Creator, Writer, Executive Producer - *Shitbuster* (2008), series, as Superfan - *The Adventures of Lisa and Friends* (2008), series, Other - *The Pop* (2008), series, as Pappy - *Planners* (2008), series, as Planbot (voice) - *Tales from Railroad Times* (2008), series, as Train (voice) / Theodore Ward (voice), Theodore Ward (voice), Other, Sound - *Water and Power* (2008), series, as Justin - *Mattress Guy* (2008), series, as Mattress Guy (voice) - *The Bed & Breakfast Club* (2008), series, as Luke - *Fantastimart* (2007), series, Billy The Bull (voice) / White Kid (voice), Producer, Writer, Director - *The Forgotten Classics* (2007), series, as Jewish Redneck - *Eat My Shit* (2007), series, as Little Kid (voice) - *The Carebears* (2007), as Thanks - *My Friend Mike* (2007), series, as Robot / Mike / Dirk Peters, Sound - *Yo Gabba Gabba!* (2007), series, as Sea Queen (voice) - *Cautionary Tales of Swords* (2007), series, as Jazzman - *Kosbees* (2007), Executive Producer - *Mr. Sprinkles* (2007), Mr. Sprinkles (voice), Director - *Acceptable.tv* (2007), series, Kosbee (voice) / Mr. Sprinkles, Mister Sprinkles (voice), Consulting Producer, Producer, Animation Director, Director - *Mister Sprinkles* (2007), series, Mister Sprinkles (voice), Director, Executive Producer, Writer - *The Sarah Silverman Program* (2007), series, as Blonde Craig, Chant Leader - *Reporters* (2007), series, Little Timmy (girl) / Jerry, Jerry, Set Decoration, Editor, Writer, Director, Cinematography, Sound, Digital Effects Producer, Lighting Director, Creator - *Relative insanity* (2007), series, Executive Producer, Creator - *Tenacious D: Time Fixers* (2006), as Abe Lincoln - *The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti* (2006), series, Doc Smith (voice) / Mharti Mcdonalds (voice), Writer, Director, Background Designer, Animation, Creator - *The Real Animated Adventures of Doc and Mharti* (2006), Doc Smith / Mharti McDonhalds, Creator, Writer, Director - *Christmas World 2050* (2006), series, King Snyder / Reginald, Writer, Director, Creator - *Phone Sexxers* (2006), series, as Sebastian / Shard Face - *Magic Fantastic Animatic* (2006), series, (voice), Writer, Creator - *Puzzles* (2006), series, as Jeremy, Creator - *musium of soda* (2006), series, Acting - *Opportunity Knockers* (2006), series, as Banana Bandit - *Pretty President* (2006), series, as Conservative Columnist - *Unbelievable Tales* (2006), series, Little Dipper (voice), Director, Writer, Producer, Character Designer, Animation, Creator - *Classroom* (2006), series, as Jason / Wheelchair Escapee, Jason - *Losting* (2005), series, Acting - *The Call of Echo Mountain* (2005), series, as Tom Osterwoldt, Other - *Cookie Party* (2005), as Cookie (voice) - *Yacht Rock* (2005), series, as Christopher Cross - *Rock Gods of Rock* (2005), series, as Theme Song Vocals (voice), Geisha Referee, Music - *The Most Extraordinary Space Investigations* (2005), series, as Sampson, Editor, Creator - *Robot Chicken* (2005), series, as Booking Agent (voice) - *House of Cosbys* (2005), series, Curiosity Cosby (voice) / Data Analysis Cosby (voice), Data Analysis Cosby (voice), Preacher Cosby / Curiosity Cosby / Data Analysis Cosby (voice), Character Designer, Music, Art Designer, Sound, Director, Writer, Animation, Producer, Thanks, Creator - *Documentary: The Series* (2004), series, Documenter #2, Set Decoration, Graphic Designer, Cinematography, Costume Designer, Other, Producer, Makeup Artist, Camera Operator, Editor, Writer, Director, Costume Design, Creator - *PJ and Kid Spaceship* (2004), series, as PJ (voice) - *Tiger, Wizzard, and Suitcase* (2004), Creator - *Hilarious Jokes* (2004), series, Leroy Paloni (voice), Producer, Art Designer, Writer, Creator - *It's Twissleton* (2004), series, Peter (voice) / Susan (voice) / Commander Sparks (voice) /, Animation, Writer, Art Designer, Creator - *Laser Fart* (2004), series, as Hurtful Guy - *Friends and Lovers* (2004), series, Captain Zander, Producer, Writer, Director - *Cheap Seats* (2004), series, as Rhonda's Son - *Sockbaby* (2004), series, as Lungs (voice) - *Toro and Moro* (2004), series, Toro (voice) / Mr. Nanners (voice) / Customer #1 (voice), Executive Producer, Writer, Creator, Art Designer - *Aqua Teen Hunger Force* (2000), series, as Honest Abe Lincoln's Hot Links Mascot (voice) - *The Simpsons* (1989), series, as Rick Sanchez / Morty Smith (voice) — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) - *The Paloni Family Comedy Show!*, series, Leroy Peloni / Marty Paloni / Grandpa Joe Paloni (voice), Writer, Creator - *House of Cosbys*, Director, Editor - *Untitled Rick and Morty Film*, Original Series Creator ## Gallery - ![Justin Roiland](https://film.one/media/person/981144/gallery-1779cf44bc79.jpg) Justin Roiland — JustinRoiland, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/2010_Justin_Roiland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - 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