Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian-American voice actor and former stand-up comedian. He has provided the voice for several characters. He is a very well known impressionist, with one of his many impressions being that of Orson Welles.
LaMarche has also won two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for his work in Futurama; one for his work as Lrrr and his Orson Welles impression in "Lrrreconcilable Ndndifferences" (in 2011), and another Emmy the following year for the Futurama episode "The Silence of the Clamps" (in 2012).
Aside from Futurama, he is best known for his roles of The Brain and Squit from Animaniacs as well as reprising the former in the spin-off show, Pinky and the Brain, and has provided voices for Egon Spengler on The Real Ghostbusters, Dizzy Devil on Tiny Toon Adventures, many characters in Matt Groening's latest series Disenchantment, Chef Quimby and other characters in the second season of Inspector Gadget, and Big Bob Pataki in Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!. He has also done voice work for various characters in The Simpsons.
Characters Voiced[]
- Kif Kroker
- Calculon
- Bont the Viscous
- Merg
- Raoul
- Walt
- Donbot
- Francis "Clamps" X. Clampazzo
- Hedonismbot
- Dandy Jim
- Destructor
- Joseph "Fishy Joe" Gilman
- The Scary Door
- "Anthology of Interest I" Narrator
- "Anthology of Interest II" Narrator
- Dr. Perceptron
- Big Brain
- Horrible Gelatinous Blob
- Hyper-Chicken
- Neutral President
- George Washington's Head
- Victor
- Lrrr
- Morbo
- iHawk
- Leroy
- George Michael's Head
- Luciano Pavarotti's head
- Harry Truman
- Donkey Kong
- Mario
- Betsy
- Pharaoh Hermenthotip
- Melllvar
- Headless Body of Spiro Agnew
- Evil Lincoln
- Theodore Roosevelt's Head
- Cartridge Unit
- Charles de Gaulle's Head
- Waltazar
- Sick Vending Machine Robot
- Farnsworth's Killbots
- Abraham Lincoln's Head
- Orson Welles' Head