Phil LaMarr
Phil LaMarr at the San Diego Comic-Con International in July 2010.
Born	Phillip LaMarr (1967-01-24) January 24, 1967 (age 45) Los Angeles, California, United States
Occupation	Actor, Voice actor, Stand up comedian
Years active	1983–present
Website
http://website.mac.com/phillamarr

Phillip "Phil" LaMarr (born January 24, 1967) is an American actor, comedian and voice actor. One of the original cast members on the sketch comedy series MADtv, he is also known for his small, but memorable role as Marvin in Pulp Fiction. He has an extensive voice acting career, with major roles spanning animated series Futurama, Static Shock, Samurai Jack, Justice League and Justice League Unlimited, and Transformers Animated, and video games Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4, the Jak and Daxter series, Darksiders, Final Fantasy XII, inFAMOUS, Dead Island and the Mercenaries series.

Early life[link]

LaMarr was born in Los Angeles, California. He is a graduate of Harvard High School in North Hollywood, and Yale University, where he helped found the improv comedy group Purple Crayon. One of his biggest roles at Yale was the title character in the British comedy Trevor. After graduating in 1989, LaMarr became a member of the award-winning sketch and improv comedy group The Groundlings. He also studied improv at The Second City and at the ImprovOlympic in Chicago with Del Close. He has also improvised with Cold Tofu and Off the Wall. His early film jobs arose from connections from his improv and college years. For example, LaMarr appeared in the film It's Pat (1994), written by friends from the Groundlings, and he appeared in Bio-Dome because the director was a friend from college. However, his big break came in a small but memorable role in Pulp Fiction as Marvin (he would later reprise the role in a MADtv sketch parodying the film).

Career[link]

[edit] MADtv

LaMarr, unlike most of the other original nine cast members of MADtv, had extensive television and film jobs experience when he joined the show. Even before college, he had voiced a character on the Mister T cartoon show.

Some of the recurring characters LaMarr performed on MADtv were Desperation Lee ("Funky Walker Dirty Talker"), Jaq the UBS Guy, "sexy player" Rick, talentless R&B singer Savante and Rocket Revengers star Lieutenant Abraham Jefferson (a.k.a. Lincoln Willis).

LaMarr has done impressions of celebrities such as Sammy Davis, Jr., Tommy Davidson, Louis Farrakhan, Michael Jackson, Vernon Jordan, Martin Lawrence, Spike Lee, Sidney Poitier, Colin Powell, Prince, Bill Maher, Ben Vereen, Chris Tucker, Michael Winslow, Rick James, Billy Crystal, Bobby Brown, Bernard Shaw, Sinbad, Kanye West, Don King, Johnnie Cochran, Nat King Cole, Sherman Hemsley, Chris Rock, Ice-T, and Ray Charles. He has done impressions of Moe Howard from The Three Stooges while playing an African-American version of the character.

LaMarr left MADtv at the end of the fifth season (2000).

Sometimes, LaMarr fills in for Greg Proops on the Odd News small, 4 minute section on Yahoo.com. It features odd, but true recent news.

Other television projects[link]

LaMarr's television credits include a starring role on Justice League and Justice League Unlimited as Green Lantern, a major role as Hermes Conrad and various other characters on Futurama, the title roles on Static Shock and Samurai Jack, and guest starring roles on Cold Case, Eve, Reno 911!, the British version of Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Without a Trace, Invader Zim, The Bernie Mac Show, NYPD Blue, Living Single, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Murphy Brown, and Family Guy. In season three of Mind of Mencia, he played the ghost of Johnnie Cochran. LaMarr reprised his role as Hermes Conrad in the Futurama movies Bender's Big Score, The Beast with a Billion Backs, Bender's Game, and Into the Wild Green Yonder. He also voices Wilt and other recurring characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Carver Descartes on The Weekenders, and several characters in the critically acclaimed Afro Samurai. He additionally voices Jazz, Omega Supreme, Oil Slick, and Jetstorm on Transformers Animated. LaMarr played both Gambit and Trask in the animated TV show Wolverine and the X-Men. LaMarr portrayed Nautolan Jedi Master Kit Fisto in Star Wars : The Clone Wars on Cartoon Network; he also played Amit Noloff, a one time character, and a Tactical Droid. He also had a major role in Class of 3000 as Philly Phil. LaMarr will voice JARVIS and Wonder Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes. and Big Time Rush as Hawk.^[1]

Film and theatre projects[link]

LaMarr's stage credits include The Tempest, As You Like It, Guys and Dolls, Asylum, South Coast Repertory's Make the Break and the Sacred Fools Theater Company's inaugural production of The Fatty Arbuckle Spookhouse Revue.

On the big screen, LaMarr is most well known as Marvin from Pulp Fiction. He has appeared in Kill the Man, Free Enterprise, Cherish, and Manna from Heaven. He appeared in Speaking of Sex with Bill Murray and Catherine O'Hara, and Back by Midnight with Kirstie Alley, Rodney Dangerfield, and Randy Quaid.

LaMarr's recent film appearances include Fronterz (2004) and Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman (2005). As of April 2006, LaMarr is filming Cook-Off!, in which he will appear as Rev. Thaddeus Briggs, Esq.

LaMarr made a cameo appearance in the Will Ferrell film Step Brothers in which he is viewing a house for sale with his wife.

LaMarr also was in the Yum Corp Sexual Harassment training videos.

LaMarr is playing Cowboy Curtis in the Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show which begins performances Oct. 26th at the newly named Stephen Sondheim Theater. He played the role when the show was recently revived in Los Angeles. The character was originally portrayed on television by Laurence Fishburne. The Broadway production of The Pee-wee Herman Show was recently taped for special to be aired on HBO in April.

LaMarr also appeared in Spider-Man 2 as one of the riders standing behind Spidey, as he was trying to save the subway train.

Video game voiceover work[link]

LaMarr did the English voice over work for Vamp, a villain of Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty and Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots. Additionally, LaMarr did the voice over work for the character Reddas from Square Enix's Final Fantasy XII as well as Ramza in the PSP version of Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions. He also did several voices, including Skelter, for Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines.

He also did the English voice acting for the parts of Sig and Count Veger in the Jak and Daxter video game series as well as voicing several characters in the game Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, as well as the voice of Gadon Thek in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic. As well as a featuring in the Sega CD game Make My Video C+C Music Factory, he also was the voice of Chris Jacobs in both Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and its sequel, Mercenaries 2: World in Flames. He plays the character John White in the PS3 titles Infamous 1 and 2. Also, he plays the character Dr. Ragland in the game Prototype.

He also was the voice of the grumpy Kane in the game The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, and Marty in the video game tie-in of Madagascar.

LaMarr also recently voiced the merchant "Vulgrim" in the new action/adventure hybrid Darksiders.

He reprised his role as Kit Fisto for the video game: Star Wars: The Clone Wars - Republic Heroes. LaMarr voiced Rick Grimes in the animation film of The Walking Dead.^[2]

He also voiced Sam B, one of the playable characters in Dead Island.

Webisode projects[link]

LaMarr is set to appear as a regular character in the forthcoming major webisode series Naught for Hire produced by Jeffrey Berman and Farscape's Ben Browder. His character, Mark One, is described to be that of an elevator with mood-swings. It is unclear whether or not he will be solely the voice of this character or if he will appear in person similarly to that of Max Headroom, a concept which Browder has pulled from before when writing for Farscape episode John Quixote, which used an elevator displaying a talking human interface on a screen within. ^[3] A date has not yet been set for the series' release.

Selected filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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Dana Snyder (born November 14, 1973) is an American stand-up comedian, actor, producer, voice artist, and comedian, best known for playing Master Shake on the Aqua Teen Hunger Force show, and the film Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters,^[2] both part of Cartoon Network's Adult Swim franchise.

Early life[link]

Snyder was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania^[3] on November 14, 1973 and grew up in Las Vegas, Nevada.^[4] He credits Don Rickles, Rip Taylor, and Phil Silvers as childhood influences.^[5] Snyder graduated from Las Vegas High School in 1992^[6] and he graduated with a BFA from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University, Missouri in 1996.^[7][8]

Career[link]

Voice acting[link]

Snyder was hired to voice Master Shake on Aqua Teen Hunger Force / Aqua Unit Patrol Squad 1,^[9] without auditioning, based solely on his speaking voice during a phone call to Dave Willis.^[10] Snyder also provided the voice of Gazpacho on Chowder, Todd and Benny Lee on the G4TV show Code Monkeys, "The Alchemist" on The Venture Bros., and Granny Cuyler on Squidbillies^[11]. He also lent a guest voice as Leonard in The Penguins of Madagascar and plays a teacher named "Mr. Baldwin" on the Disney series Fish Hooks.^[12][13] He played Alistair in Open Season 3.^[14][15] Snyder provided the voices of Sam as well as Cold Fusion Reactor Dad on the web series Suicide by Side.^[16][17] He also narrated the Adult Swim web series "Sipes Stories" that he co-produced with Andy Sipes.^[18]

Stage acting[link]

On April 15, 2010, Snyder and Dave Willis went on a multi-city^[19] tour called Dave & Dana: Stars of Aqua Teen!.^[20][21][22]

In June 2010, he came out as Max Bialystock in the Lyceum Theatre's production of Mel Brooks' The Producers in Arrow Rock, Missouri.^[23]

In February and March 2011, he again played Max Bialystock in The Producers at the Riverside Theatre in Vero Beach Florida.^[24]

Snyder has also come out in the Lyceum Theatre 2011 productions of Run For Your Wife,^[25] Damn Yankees, and The Sound of Music^[26] and has come out in other United States regional theaters, including Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and the Cleveland Playhouse.^[27]

Snyder was also a guest performer during several performances of the Atlanta-based burlesque revue "Dames Aflame" in 2010 and 2012.^[28]

Film and television[link]

Snyder has made guest appearances on ER,^[29] Brothers and Sisters,^[30] and Gary Unmarried.^[31][32]

Dana Snyder also appeared in Saul of the Mole Men^[33][34] and The Young Person's Guide to History.^[35]

Podcast[link]

Snyder co-hosts the Ken P.D. Snydecast with Ken "Plumey" Plume, which is a free podcast produced out of Plume's Fred Entertainment^[36]

The first episode of the show appeared on the internet on January 11, 2006.^[37] The show was initially produced out of IGN^[38] and is produced out of Fred Entertainment.^[39]

The show originally followed a "weekly" episode distribution ^[40] but has been more sporadic in later years.^[41]

In addition to Snyder and Plume, guests have included Doc Hammer, Paul Sabourin, and Jay Wade Edwards.^[42]

Personal life[link]

He married Christine "Sweety" Snyder (née Ciccone) in August 2005.^[43] His wife has made several appearances on his podcast. Snyder also has one brother.^{[citation needed]}

Filmography[link]

Television[link]

Video games[link]

As a producer[link]

As himself[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Dana Snyder at the Internet Movie Database
• Dana Snyder at the Notable Names Database
• Dana Snyder at Fanpop.com
• Dana Snyder interview, February 24, 2006
• Dana Snyder interview on The Swimcast: parts One and Two