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Maurice LaMarche
Age: 51
Height: 6'
Birth Place: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Born: Mar. 30th, 1958
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Maurice LaMarche's Main TV Roles
NOTE: Complete List of Works can be found at
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BIOGRAPHY: [no bio found]
TRIVIA:
- In 1984, he auditioned for the role of David Addison in _"Moonlighting" (1985)_ (qv), and came close to getting the part. He got three callbacks but was eliminated just before the screen-test phase.
- Comes from a TV background. His father, Guy LaMarche, was a local TV newscaster, first in 1961 in Timmins, Ontario, Canada, then in from 1962 to 1963 in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. During the senior LaMarche's short tenure at the Ottawa TV station, his fellow on-camera newscasters were a young Peter Jennings and Alex Trebek. Forty years later, in 2003, Maurice LaMarche was part of an answer on Trebek's game show, Jeopardy, when the question was, "What is The Brain?". Trebek and Maurice LaMarche have never met.
- Also does a variety of other voices besides 'Orson Welles' (qv). He has done the voice of Yosemite Sam in most recent Warner Bros. productions and did a dead-on 'Alec Baldwin' (qv) impression for _Team America: World Police (2004)_ (qv).
- Has played 'Orson Welles' (qv) three times, and arguably a forth time. The Brain's voice was based on 'Orson Welles' (qv). He voiced 'Orson Welles' (qv) on an episode of _"The Critic" (1994)_ (qv), in which Welles reads the video will of Jay's parents, and he provided his voice in _Ed Wood (1994)_ (qv). He portrayed Welles again in a segment on The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror XVII in 2006. He also provided voices for the _"Transformers" (1984)_ (qv) series, the film of which was Welles' last performance.
- Was granted a private audience with The Dalai Lama, based on the eloquence of a note he passed to the Buddhist leader's secretary on a flight from Los Angeles to Vancouver in April of 2004 as His Holiness was about start his Canadian tour. The note described his struggle with the anger and rage he'd carried for 17 years at his father's murderer, and he asked for His Holiness' help. He was ushered to The Dalai Lama's seat, where they spoke for ten minutes. LaMarche has spoken publicly of it as a defining moment in his life.
- Voice of Egon Spengler in _"The Real Ghost Busters" (1986)_ (qv), which he reprised for _"Extreme Ghostbusters" (1997)_ (qv) in the late 1990s. He claims that the producers asked him not to impersonate 'Harold Ramis' (qv) (the live action Egon of the films), but he did so anyway and got the job. He and 'Frank Welker' were the only two Ghostbuster voice actors to stay with the series throughout its entire run ('Arsenio Hall' (qv) and the late 'Lorenzo Music' were replaced by 'Buster Jones' (qv) and 'Dave Coulier' (qv), respectively).
- Went to elementary school with 'Mike Myers (I)' (qv) in Toronto, Canada. Although they were four grades apart, they both have brothers named Paul who were best friends and in the same class in their fourth grade year.
- Used to smoke Cuban cigars voraciously, as he believed they gave his voice the depth needed to play 'Orson Welles' (qv). However, he quit and has been completely smoke-free since July 17, 2007.
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