Maurice LaMarche

Maurice LaMarche
Ask him to do his Shatner impression.
Years active at Hanna-Barbera	1987-1997
Years active at Williams Street	2001-2007
Years active at Warner Bros.	2004-2020
Characters played	Popeye Verminous Skumm Duke Nukem Pasha Peddler Apache Chief Fred Flintstone Blue Falcone Inch High Speed Buggy Doggie Daddy Batman Droopy Quick Draw McGraw Wally Gator Morocco Mole Cavey Jr. Magilla Gorilla Mr. Peebles Benny the Ball Dum Dum Shazzan Atom Ant

Maurice LaMarche, sometimes credited as Maurice La Marche, is a Canadian voice actor and comedian. His roles for Hanna-Barbera (H-B) include Popeye and Pasha Peddler. He took the daunting task of providing a plethora of classic HB characters in a post-Hanna-Barbera world with the satirical Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, and also brought back the late Vincent Price when called on to do Price's character and inspiration, Vincent Van Ghoul.

Roles

20th century

• Popeye and Son (1987)
  • Popeye
• Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures (1990)
  • Mr. Scanland ("The Birth of Rock & Roll or Too Hip for the Womb")
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers (1992-95)
  • Verminous Skumm
  • Duke Nukem
• Arabian Nights (1994)
  • M. Cyclops
• Cave Kids (1996)
  • Snowball ("Cave Kid Christmas")
• The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996-97)
  • Pasha Peddler
  • Deepak Singh ("Bloodlines," 1996)
  • Keeper ("The Bangalore Falcon," 1997)

21st century

• Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2001-07)
  • Apache Chief
  • Yogi Bear" ("Death by Chocolate," 2002)
  • Fred Flintstone
  • Blue Falcone
  • Stan Freezoid
  • Inch High
  • Hi-Riser ("SPF," 2004)
  • Vince ("Trio's Company," 2004)
  • Clem ("Trio's Company," 2004)
  • Overweight kid ("The Devlin Made Me Do It," 2004)
  • Spuzzmocker ("The Devlin Made Me Do It," 2004)
  • Speed Buggy ("High Speed Buggy Chase," 2004)
  • Doggie Daddy
  • Batman ("Peanut Puberty," 2004)
  • Droopy ("Droopy Botox", 2004)
  • Quick Draw McGraw ("Guitar Control," 2004)
  • Wally Gator ("Booty Noir," 2004)
  • Sheriff ("Booty Noir," 2004)
  • Morocco Mole ("Bird Girl of Guantanamole," 2005)
  • Cavey Jr. ("Evolutionary War," 2005)
  • Benny the Ball ("Mindless," 2005)
  • Dum Dum ("Mindless," 2005)
  • Magilla Gorilla
  • Mr. Peebles ("Free Magilla," 2005)
  • Mailman ("Free Magilla," 2005)
  • Shazzan ("Shazzan," 2006)
  • Atom Ant ("Incredible Hippo," 2006)
  • Employee ("Incredible Hippo," 2006)
  • Bird ("Grodin," 2006)
• What's New, Scooby-Doo?
  • Haze Ferlinguini ("The San Franpsycho," 2004)
  • Security guy ("The San Franpsycho," 2004)
• Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated (2010-2012)
  • Vincent Van Ghoul
  • Actor playing Professor Jantzen ("Nightfright," 2011)
  • Policeman ("Nightfright," 2011)
  • George Avocados's boss ("Theater of Doom," 2012)
• Big Top Scooby-Doo! (2012)
  • Archambault
  • Cap'n Fatty (uncredited)
• Scooby-Doo! and the Curse of the 13th Ghost (2019)
  • Vincent Van Ghoul
  • Bernie Alan
  • Vance Linklater
• Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?
  • Salesman ("The Internet on Haunted House Hill!," 2020)
  • Ghost of Charles M. Thraber ("The Internet on Haunted House Hill!," 2020)
  • Caretaker ("The Internet on Haunted House Hill!," 2020)

Other roles

LaMarche is known for several distinct roles in his career, with The Brain from Animaniacs and its spin-off, Pinky and the Brain, right at the top. His other popular roles include Egon Spengler on The Real Ghostbusters, Dizzy Devil on Tiny Toon Adventures, Yosemite Sam on several Looney Tunes-related series, Kif on Futurama, Lt. Gadget on Gadget and the Gadgetinis, Chief Burns on Transformers: Rescue Bots, and Grumpy on The 7D.

He also has the notable distinction of being the first actor to play Inspector Gadget as a live-action character (before Matthew Broderick) on The Super Mario Bros. Super Show. LaMarche would eventually portray Gadget in some animated iterations of the Inspector Gadget series (as mentioned above), after taking Don Adams's place when the latter retired in 2000. He voiced Chief Quimby in the second season of the original series, during which he replaced Dan Hennessey from the first season.

Where to find him

• He's on Facebook
• He's on Instagram
• He's on Twitter