Ed O'Neill voices Dory's curmudgeonly new sidekick in Andrew Stanton's follow-up to 'Finding Nemo ... most prominently a curmudgeonly octopus named Hank, voiced by Ed O’Neill.

A tricky aspect of the design was Hank’s mouth. “An octopus’ mouth is underneath it, but you never see it and it didn’t work in the Dory world,” character supervisor Jeremie Talbot said ...

Ed O'Neill talks 'Finding Dory' Ed O'Neill talks voicing Hank the octopus in 'Finding Dory' Ed O'Neill talks voicing Hank the Octopus in 'Finding Dory' ...

I know, Dory is the star of the new movie Finding Dory. But Hank the cephalopod is the one who stole our hearts — with all seven of his tentacles. So we’re honoring him in cake form.

But Finding Dory doesn’t depend on the side characters ... The best and most significant cast addition is Ed O’Neill as Hank, a tired and cranky octopus who just wants to get transferred ...

But technical problems were harder to sidestep, like designing Dory’s sidekick, Hank, an octopus with seven tentacles. Jason Deamer, the character director for “Finding Dory,” noted that ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Ed O'Neill voices Hank in "Finding Dory," a mimic octopus that lost a tentacle (technically making him a septopus). The mimic octopus is a real creature ...

Imagineering “plussed up” the venerable attraction by extending some rockwork above the water line to give the Hank static figure a place to hang out. The “Finding Dory” octopus will be ...

Is there anyone out there who didn't love Dory when she first splashed onto ... and Lindsey Collins, producer. Hank, the octopus, is the first kind of animation that Pixar's ever done.

In "Finding Dory," Dory is on a quest to find her long-forgotten parents and never lets her disability get in her way, even when her friends lose faith -- like Hank the octopus, who calls it "too ...