Jason Ritter surprised to hear his convicted father John’s voice on animated show (exclusive)

Jason Ritter is forever impressed with all the work that his late father John Ritter have done.

Talk to people recently at Poker face The Hollywood premiere on May 1, the 45-year-old actor says his father’s presence often feels thanks to his decades long career.

“It has been a couple of times” when he has seen TV and suddenly be surprised to see or hear his father on the screen, Jason said.

The Matlock The actor says to people, “There was a time where I was in a trailer and I tried to make this TV work, and it was all kinds of fuzzy, and the only channel that worked was to play a Litter king Episodes, and that was my father’s voice, and I hadn’t known that he had done it. ”

“And suddenly it was strange to hear his voice come from this character. So I looked at it,” says Jason.

John is credited like playing a character called Eugene Grandy, a music teacher at Tom Landry Middle School at the animated Sitcom.

“From Walton’s to Mary Tyler MooreHe bounced everywhere. Hawaii Five-O. MASH. – He has a good section on it. It’s fun to see, ”Jason tells People.

His father became famous for his role as Jack Tripper at ABC Sitcom Three companies by the end of the 1970s. Additional credits include 8 simple rules to meet my teenage daughter and 1996’s Oscar winning Seleblad.

Emmy and Golden Globe Award winning star died suddenly in September 2003 at 54.

His death was due to a “dissection of aorta”, a previously undetected deficiency in the main artery from the heart, his publishers said at that time. John’s family later sued two doctors for more than $ 67 million in damages in one Incorrect death attempt which began in 2008; But The doctors were cleared.

In an interview 2023 with Siriusxm’s Jess Cagle -ShowJason joked that his first functioning gig was ever bound to his father and fluttered his Nepo baby status.

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“Like a small child, when I might be 6 or something like that, my dad made this cartoon The real story of o Christmas tree“he said.” I will say, without hesitation, it was like A complete nepotism rental. I’ll admit it. He certainly got me the job. I tried to stay away from the latter. ”

When I looked back at the animated special, Jason said: “I have to play some acorns in The real story of o Christmas treeAnd he played my uncle Piney. It was fun because when I was growing up and I found that the recording again, I went, “Oh, they must have rushed up my voice to make it so high.” Both my mom and dad were like, ‘no, no. It was, yes … it was pretty loud. Jason, that was your voice. “