Maurice LaMarche



Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and occasional guest star on The Simpsons. LaMarche was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, but his family moved to Timmins, Ontario very soon after he was born.

At the age of 19, LaMarche took his high school act to an open mic night in New York,performing to a reaction in which, as he describes, "they just totally ignored me". Three years later, at the age of 22, Maurice moved straight to Los Angeles to further his stand up career. This move, LaMarche says, would always be something he regretted doing instead of moving to New York.

Voiceover acting
Maurice's first entrance into the voiceover industry was in 1979 in Easter Fever and Take Me Up To The Ballgame, two Canadian films. LaMarche didn't venture into voiceover acting again until years later as a part time job when he was doing standup.

Television
Maurice LaMarche began on Inspector Gadget and went on to Dennis the Menace, Popeye and Son and The Real Ghostbusters. After The Real Ghostbusters, LaMarche became a regular mainstay of the voiceover industry appearing in such shows as Talespin, Tiny Toon Adventures, GI Joe, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes: The Animated Series, Taz-Mania, Where's Waldo, The Little Mermaid, Batman: The Animated Series, and Bonkers before landing perhaps his most recognized role in 1993 as The Brain on Animaniacs (and later its spin-off show Pinky and the Brain). The stretch of two years after this saw LaMarche portray characters in such shows as Duckman, Hey Arnold!, Queer Duck, King of the Hill, and The Chimp Channel. It was at this time, 1999, that Maurice LaMarche began work on Futurama. Since Futurama LaMarche has continued to work steadily in television, including guest roles on The Simpsons.

Characters voiced

 * Provided the loud belch given by Jay Sherman and Eudora Welty in "A Star is Burns"
 * George C. Scott
 * Orson Welles
 * Billy (The Wife Aquatic)
 * Newscaster (Coca-Cola Advert)