Gilbert Gottfried, the comedian and voice actor who played Aladdin in Disney’s Aladdin, has passed away.
He was 67 years old at the time.
Gottfried’s family confirmed his death on his official social media pages, citing a long illness as the cause of death.
Gilbert Gottfried had one of the most recognizable voices in modern American entertainment: screechy, joyfully unpleasant, and unmistakably New York.
His disembodied calling card and professional signature were his voice.
But behind the scenes, he didn’t say it quite like that.
The tributes that came in Tuesday afternoon, however, revealed a side of him that may have been concealed from the wider public or camouflaged by his fervor for off-color social satire.
In a statement, Gottfried’s podcast co-host Frank Santopadre said Gottfried could be brash, surprising, and frequently insulting, but that the man behind the jokes was everything but.
Howard Stern, the radio shock jock, once played a clip of Gottfried’s voicemail message.
Did Gilbert Gottfried win Oscars?
Gilbert Gottfried did not win any award at the Oscars personally before his death.
The voice on the other end of the telephone was almost indistinguishable.
