It's hard to imagine Opie taking on any responsibility with flying colors, but his voice actor, Mark Hentemann, is the very opposite. The prolific entertainment veteran has not only provided voices in all of Seth MacFarlane's animated projects, including "Family Guy," "American Dad," and "The Cleveland Show," but has also taken on important production roles. On "Family Guy," Hentemann has had his hands in several parts of the process, from acting as a story editor to a writer to an executive producer, a role he continues to hold onto to this day. His work on the show has been recognized over the years, with two Primetime Emmy nominations, his first being for the fan-favorite "Star Wars" parody episode "Blue Harvest."
Having been with "Family Guy" for so long, what Hentemann cares most about is how fans continue to embrace the series. In a 2011 interview at San Diego Comic-Con, Hentemann describes an incident that occurred after the show came back on the air following its second cancellation. "I still remember we had maybe a year in after we had gotten canceled after we had come back," he shares. "They had set up for us to read a script on stage in LA ... and I was like, 'there are going to be like 100 people there, who's going to watch a table read?' And we got there and the line was around the corner."
