Lou Ferrigno helped voice the Hulk in the Avengers!

Lou Ferrigno, the bodybuilder, played the post-transformed green monster in "The Incredible Hulk" television show from 1978-to-1982. He was so muscular that there was no need for CGI to portray the green beast. Ferrigno was called upon to help voice the new Hulk in "The Avengers." Oddly, he did not voice his own television character, but did lend his voice to previous Marvel "Hulk" movies in 2003 and 2008. Oscar-winning sound editor Christopher Boyes, who crafted the voice of the "Avengers" Hulk, recently explained, "Initially for Hulk, I started using all sorts of animal vocals and tried to create this larger-than-life, territorial rage... And so the feedback coming back from Joss [Whedon] was that it was too much of a monster, too much of a creature. He really wanted to lead with the notion that this is a superhuman, but human in rage." Boyes goes onto explain that he showed Whedon a bunch of examples that he experimented with, and the one he liked the most "turned out to be [a combination of] Mark Ruffalo, some Lou Ferrigno and a little bit of me and two people from New Zealand. So I led with that." The 6-foot-5-inch actor, now 60 years old, has worked steadily in film and television over the years.