Maurice LaMarche

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Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and stand-up comedian.

He has voiced Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters and its follow-up Extreme Ghostbusters, the Brain in Animaniacs and its spin-off Pinky and the Brain as well as a variety of characters in Futurama.

Early life

LaMarche was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 30, 1958, to Guy LaMarche and Linda Bourdon. His family moved to Timmins, Ontario, soon after he was born. LaMarche's childhood was filled with his "own little world of cartoons and sixties television". It was in his second year of high school that he learned of the popularity his talent for mimicry could garner him. This realization came from a coincidental performance in a high school "variety night" when a couple of friends urged him to enter. The act he performed at the variety night was "celebrities as waiters" which he used until the end of his stand-up career.

One of his neighbors and schoolmates was future comedian, Mike Myers.

Personal life

LaMarche has been married to Robin G. Eisenman since May 19, 1991; together they have a son, Jonathan.

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Career

LaMarche performed at an open mic night in New York City at the age of nineteen, drawing a receptive audience who, as he says, "they completely ignored me." This reaction came as a result of LaMarche's backlash from fellow Canadian comedians who LaMarche dismisses as preventing him from seeking a career outside of Canada. He returned to Canada, continued to do stand-up, and also started a career in voice over.

LaMarche, a three-year-old boy, migrated to Los Angeles to continue his stand-up work. This move, LaMarche says, would always be something he regrets doing rather than moving to New York: "I thought it was a mistake." I think a few years in New York would have made me a more likable comedian."

LaMarche's career will continue to develop over the next five years, appearing in comedy clubs around the country, with many appearances on The Merv Griffin Show and An Evening At The Improv. Despite such zeal, LaMarche felt that, although his impersonations and stage presence were solid, he needed to produce more amusing comedy stuff. Despite being critical of himself, LaMarche was invited to attend the 9th Annual Young Comedians Special, which also included Bob Saget, Rita Rudner, Louie Anderson, Yakov Smirnoff, and Sam Kinison's first appearance. Despite being praised and praised well, LaMarche said he was "probably about five years away from going from being a good comedian to being a great comedian" and being the "only impressionist that actually comes from somewhere."

LaMarche opened for such shows as Rodney Dangerfield, George Carlin, Howie Mandel, David Sanborn, and Donna Summer, many in Las Vegas and Atlantic City's main showrooms.

In a Toronto hotel lobby on March 9, 1987, LaMarche's father was murdered and shot to death by a lifelong friend. Hundreds of witnesses. LaMarche fell into depression and alcoholism for the next two years, effectively ending his stand-up career. After becoming sober in 1989, LaMarche fell back into comedy in the early part of 1990. His 18-year-old sister was killed in a car crash in September of this year, when he was regaining lost momentum. LaMarche decided he could not do stand-up comedy anymore, despite being sober. "I just threw up my hands and went, 'Oh, that's it," he said. I don't have any funny left in me. "I'm done."

In 1980, LaMarche's entry into the voiceover industry was the best in 1980, when Easter Fever and Take Me Up to the Ball Game, two Nelvana animated Canadian television specials, were released. He was also a regular voice performer on Toronto's pioneering cult television show The All-Night Show, which debuted in September 1980, featured LaMarche's lips inserted into a portrait of a famous celebrity, causing LaMarche to imitate the individual for a show promo or announcement. Jim Carriery, a young up-and-coming comedian, was hired to take his place as a voice actor when LaMarche left the show in 1981.

It took him a few years after LaMarche's 1981 move to Los Angeles to begin establishing himself in the American voiceover business, which he initially pursued as a side venture during his full-time stand-up comedy career. LaMarche appeared on Inspector Gadget in 1985, then moved to Dennis the Menace, Popeye, and Son, where he played Egon Spengler. LaMarche became a regular fixture of the voiceover industry, appearing in shows such as Tiny Toon Adventures, GI Joe, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes, and Bonkers before landing perhaps his most well-known role in 1993 as The Brain on Animaniacs and later its spin-off show Pinky and the Brain. LaMarche appeared on The Critic, Freakazoid!, and The Tick before reprising his role as Egon in Extreme Ghostbusters. In shows such as Hey Arnold, LaMarche portrayed characters two years after this time. Big Bob Pataki, Queer Duck, and The Chimp Channel are among the many personalities on the show. During this period, LaMarche will be the voice actor for Mortimer Mouse, and his appearance in the television series Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse will be filmed. LaMarche first began working on Futurama in 1999, and after Futurama, he has continued to work steadily in television, including guest appearances on The Simpsons (where he once again parodied Orson Welles). Hovis the butler on the Nickelodeon series Catscratch was his most recent regular appearance. In Codename: Kids Next Door, LaMarche was the voice of villain Father, and she was also the voice of Victor in Playhouse Disney's Handy Manny 2007 Halloween movie.

LaMarche has done various voice roles for many Warner Bros. Cartoons and DiC Entertainment cartoons. He also performed various pieces of music in the "Great Wakkoro" shorts on Animaniacs, in which Wakko Warner performed various pieces of music. In 2011, LaMarche reprised his role as Yosemite Sam in Cartoon Network's latest series, The Looney Tunes Show, and its spin-off, New Looney Tunes.

Several appearances in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, where he portrayed Chancellor Neighsay.

In both Animaniacs and the spin-off, LaMarche plays The Brain. LaMarche says he looked at a photograph of the character and immediately thought of Orson Welles, although the model was not modeled after Welles. Voicing Brain gave LaMarche the opportunity to use his signature impersonation of Welles. Welles' career is no longer relevant in Pinky and the Brain episodes. LaMarche received an Annie Award for his work as the Brain, and he was nominated for an Emmy. In Codename: Kids Next Door, LaMarche will use this accent to identify Father.

LaMarche once voiced 29 characters in a 30-minute episode while on The Critic.

His time on The Critic (the Sherman family was so rich, they had hired Welles to narrate it) turns into a commercial for Mrs. Pells Fishsticks ("full of count-ry goodness and green pea-ness") and another for Blotto Bros. wine. He also appeared as an uncredited back-in for main cast member Jon Lovitz as Jay Sherman.

Among other things, he performed a large amount of his best known voice work in Futurama, where he introduced Zapp Brannigan's beleaguered assistant, Kif Kroker, melodramatic soap actor Morbo, Morbo, the news anchor, and Lrrr, the planet Omicron Persei 8, among other things. In the episode "Lrrrreconcilable Ndifferences," he has also performed his Orson Welles appearance on the program, receiving an Outstanding Voice-Over Achievement Emmy for his portrayal of Lrrr and Orson Welles. The following year, he received his second Emmy Award for the film "The Silence of the Clamps."

In the second episode of the hit NBC show Heroes, "Don't Look Back," LaMarche appeared as the villain Sylar. In a recorded phone call regarding Chandra Suresh's answering machine, his voice is heard. Zachary Quinto played Sylar in the role of later.

LaMarche appeared in several films, including dubbing Orson Welles' on-camera role in Ed Wood; Pepé Le Pew's Space Jam; and Reprising his roles from Queer Duck and Futurama in the direct-to-video films Queer Duck: Bender's Big Score, respectively.

His one on-camera theatrical film appearance was in the 1981 Canadian film Funny Farm, not to be confused with a later Chevy Chase vehicle with the same name. The film follows a young stand-up comedian's attempt to break into big time on the Los Angeles comedy scene. Dickie Lyons, an impressionist who befriends the main character, Mark Champlin, was played by LaMarche. Howie Mandel, Eileen Brennan, and Miles Chapin appeared in the film as well.

In Mark Hamill's 2004 film Comic Book: The Movie, LaMarche made a rare live appearance in the DVD's special features starring Pinky and Brain co-star Rob Paulsen. He re-enacted his portrayal of Orson Welles' famous frozen peas commercial outtake, among other gags.

LaMarche has also lent his voice to businesses. He appeared in Kellogg's Toucan Sam, the animated Willy Wonka character in Nestlé's Willy Wonka Candy Company commercials, as the narrator for Lexus commercials. He'll appear as himself in the early 1990s, as Popeye the Sailor for the Long John Silver's restaurant chain, reprising the role from the TV series Popeye & Son.

LaMarche was featured in the commercial for the upcoming open world driving game Forza Horizon 4 on September 8, 2018.

For the Yosemite Sam and the Gold River Journey, LaMarche provided the voice of Yosemite Sam. Six Flags Over Texas, which opened in 1992, has a drabrous ride.

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