Phillip LaMarr (born January 24, 1967) is an American actor, comedian and screenwriter. LaMarr was one of the original featured cast members on the

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television series '' Mad TV''. His voice acting roles in animated series include John Stewart / Green Lantern in '' Justice League'' and ''

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'', Hermes Conrad in ''

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'', the title characters of '' Samurai Jack'' and '' Static Shock'', and Wilt in '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends''. He has also provided voices for video game franchises including ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Darksiders'', ''

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'', '' Infamous'', ''

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'', ''

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'', and ''

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''. He also played as Browntooth the Goblin rogue in a Critical Role One-Shot " The Goblins". In film, he played Marvin in '' Pulp Fiction''. He also appeared in '' Kill the Man'', ''

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'', '' Cherish'', and '' Manna from Heaven''.

Early life

LaMarr was born in

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. He is a graduate of the Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood and

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, where he helped found the improv comedy group

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. One of his biggest roles at Yale was the titular character in the British comedy ''Trevor''. After graduating in 1989, he became a member of the award-winning sketch and improv comedy group

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. He studied improv at

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and at the ImprovOlympic in

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with

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. He has also improvised with Cold Tofu and

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Career

''Mad TV''

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

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'' cartoon show. Some of the recurring characters LaMarr performed on ''Mad TV'' 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 the following celebrities: * Bobby Brown *

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* Johnnie Cochran * Nat King Cole * Billy Crystal (as Harry Burns from '' When Harry Met Sally...'') * Diddy * Tommy Davidson * Sammy Davis Jr. *

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* Sherman Hemsley (as

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from ''

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'') * Ice-T *

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* Vernon Jordan * Don King * Martin Lawrence *

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* Howard McNear (as Floyd Lawson from ''

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'') *

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* Bernard Shaw * Sinbad *

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* Ben Vereen *

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* Barry White *

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He has also done impressions of Moe Howard from

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while playing an African-American version of the character. LaMarr left ''Mad TV'' at the end of the fifth season (2000). Sometimes, LaMarr fills in for Greg Proops on the Odd News small, a 4-minute section on Yahoo.com. It features odd but true recent news. Since July 1, 2020, LaMarr has hosted NASA tv's "Ask the Astronomers live!" show.

Voice acting work

LaMarr's voice over credits include a starring role on '' Justice League'' and ''

'' as John Stewart/Green Lantern, a major role as Hermes Conrad and various other characters on ''

'', and the title roles on '' Samurai Jack'' and '' Static Shock''. Besides this he also voiced

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in '' Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law'' and Hector Con Carne in Evil Con Carne. LaMarr reprised his role as Hermes Conrad in the ''Futurama'' movies '' Bender's Big Score'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Into the Wild Green Yonder'', and upon the series return in 2010. He also voices Wilt and other recurring characters in '' Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends'', Carver Descartes on ''

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'', Philly Phil in ''

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'', and he portrayed the character Osmosis Jones in the television series '' Ozzy & Drix'' (replacing

). He was also Gabe Wallace, and other characters in '' Kaijudo: Rise of the Duel Masters''. He additionally voices

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, Oil Slick, and

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on '' Transformers Animated''. LaMarr portrayed Nautolan

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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 portrayed

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, and voiced other characters in '' Young Justice'', and he voiced Baxter Stockman in the 2012 ''

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''. He also lent his voice to the character of

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for ''

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''. LaMarr also provided voice talent to

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throughout the series of '' The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes''. He also portrayed Professor Thistlethorpe, a caterpillar, in Bojack Horseman. Through a tweet Jar Jar Binks actor,

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, implied that Lamarr had done the voice work for his character on the animated show ''The Clone Wars''. LaMarr provided the voice of Alphabittle the unicorn in the Netflix animated film '' My Little Pony: A New Generation''. LaMarr was also the voice of the US

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mascot "Swayzak" (unofficial name.)

Film and theatre projects

LaMarr's stage credits include '' The Tempest'', ''

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'', ''

Guys and Dolls ''Guys and Dolls'' is a musical with music and lyrics by Frank Loesser and book by Jo Swerling and Abe Burrows. It is based on " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown" (1933) and "Blood Pressure", which are two short stories by Damon Runyon, and also b ...

'', ''Asylum'', South Coast Repertory's ''Make the Break'' and the Sacred Fools Theater Company's inaugural production of ''The Fatty Arbuckle Spookhouse Revue''. LaMarr's second film role was that of the ill-fated Marvin from '' Pulp Fiction''. He has appeared in '' Kill the Man'', ''

'', '' Cherish'', and '' Manna from Heaven''. He appeared in ''Speaking of Sex'' starring

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and

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, and ''Back by Midnight'' with

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, and

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. LaMarr's recent film appearances include ''Fronterz'' (2004) and ''Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman'' (2005). As of April 2006, LaMarr is filming ''

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'', 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 played Cowboy Curtis in the Los Angeles and Broadway productions of '' The Pee-wee Herman Show''. The LA production ran from January 12 to February 7, 2010, at the Club Nokia @ LA Live. The New York show opened on November 11 and ended its limited engagement on January 2, 2011. The New York production was recorded for an HBO special that aired in March 2011. LaMarr also appeared in '' Spider-Man 2'' as one of the riders standing behind Spider-Man in the subway train as he was trying to save the train.

Video game voiceover work

LaMarr performed the

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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 voiced the characters Reddas from

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's ''

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'' as well as Ramza in the PSP version of '' Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions''. He also did several voices for '' Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines''. He also did the English voice acting for the parts of Sig and Count Veger in the ''

'' 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/The Beast in the PS3 titles '' Infamous'' and '' Infamous 2''. Also, he plays the character Dr. Bradley Ragland in the game ''

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''. 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 ''

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''. LaMarr also voiced the merchant "Vulgrim" in the action/adventure hybrid '' Darksiders''. He played the role of "Mr. Sunshine" in the 2008 crime game '' Saints Row 2'', and reprised his role in ''

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'' in 2013. 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''. He also voiced Sam B, one of the playable characters in ''

'', and recently made his debut in the ''

'' series in '' Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance'' as Phoebus, a character originally from '' The Hunchback of Notre Dame'' and voiced by

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. LaMarr returned to the ''

'' franchise as the voice of Kevin Washington in '' Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance''. He also provided the voice for multiple roles in

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, a marketing campaign audio-drama for '' Halo 5: Guardians''. LaMarr provided the voices of

and John Stewart (Green Lantern) in the 2013 superhero fighting video game '' Injustice: Gods Among Us'' and its 2017 sequel, '' Injustice 2.'' LaMarr, in addition, provided his voice for a number of audio logs in 2016 puzzle game, '' The Witness''. He also voiced Kotal Kahn in ''

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'' (2015) and ''

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'' (2019).

Webisode project

LaMarr had been announced to appear as a regular character in a webisode series, ''Naught for Hire'' produced by Jeffrey Berman and

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(''

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''), that has been in development since 2010. His character Mark One was 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 similar to that of Max Headroom, a concept which Browder has pulled from before when writing for ''Farscape'' episode "

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", which used an elevator displaying a talking human interface on a screen within.

Kickstarter

LaMarr is working on co-creating and voice-acting in a project titled '' Goblins Animated''. The Kickstarter launched on October 23, 2017, and finished on November 22, 2017. LaMarr is working with Ellipsis Stephens, Danielle Stephens, and Matt King to produce the cartoon. Voice actors on board are Billy West, Maurice LaMarche,

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and Steve Blum.

Filmography

Film

Television

Animated film

Animation

Video games

Web series

Audio plays

Awards and nominations

Notes

References

External links

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An Audio Interview with Phil LaMarr by SiDEBAR

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