Profile of Maurice LaMarche on Famous Like Me

Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor, born in Toronto.

His signature voice is an impersonation of Orson Welles. LaMarrche also provided the voice of the animated character The Brain in Pinky and the Brain, who is modeled after Welles; many Pinky and the Brain episodes are nods to Welles's career. "The Third Mouse" is based on The Third Man and in another episode the Brain stages a false alien invasion for television, in a deliberate attempt to achieve what Welles's radio adaptation of The War of the Worlds accomplished by accident.

LaMarche has voiced Welles himself on occasion. He dubbed over the voice of Vincent D'Onofrio's performance of Welles in the film Ed Wood and parodied Welles again in The Critic, in which a video will devolves into a commercial for Rosebud Frozen Peas. In Codename: Kids Next Door he is the voice of Father (Mr. Wigglestein) and in Nickelodeon's Catscratch he is the voice of the butler, Hovis.

LaMarche has also portrayed:

• Chief Quimby in Inspector Gadget
• Egon Spengler in the many incarnations of the Ghostbusters cartoons
• Numerous secondary characters in Futurama including Kif Kroker, Morbo, and Brainspawn
• Alec Baldwin for the 2004 feature film, Team America: World Police.
• Kellogg's Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam
• Xiaolin Showdown - Master Fung (Seasons 2-3) and many others
• Balto in the second and third Balto movies, released only on DVD and video

LaMarche joined the cast of The Transformers television series after the release of Transformers: The Movie. Oddly, LaMarche did not voice Unicron, a character whose voice was provided by Welles in the film.

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