Phil LaMarr

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 Justice League/Justice League Unlimited, Futurama, Samurai Jack, Static Shock, and Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends, and video games Metal Gear Solid 2 and 4, and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, the Jak and Daxter series, Darksiders, Final Fantasy XII, inFAMOUS, Dead Island and the Mercenaries series.

Early life[]

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.

Career[]

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

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.

Voice acting work[]

LaMarr's voiceover credits include a starring role on Justice League/Justice League Unlimited as Green Lantern, a major role as Hermes Conrad and various other characters on Futurama, and the title roles on Samurai Jack and Static Shock. 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 regularly voices characters on Family Guy including weatherman Ollie Williams and the black judge. He also voices Wilt and other recurring characters in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, and Carver Descartes on The Weekenders. 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. He is the voice of Baxter Stockman in the current Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and voices JARVIS and Wonder Man in The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.

Film and theatre projects[]

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 ofThe 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 Sexwith 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[]

LaMarr performed 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 voiced the characters 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/The Beast 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.^[1]

He also voiced Sam B, one of the playable characters in Dead Island, and recently made his debut in the Kingdom Hearts series in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance as Phoebus, a character originally from The Hunchback of Notre Dame and voiced by Kevin Kline.

He recently returned to the Metal Gear franchise as the voice of Kevin Washington in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance.

Webisode projects[]

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.^[2] A date has not yet been set for the series' release.

Selected filmography[]

Year	Title	Role(s)	Notes
1983	Mister T	Woody	Voice only Animated series
1991	Murphy Brown	Ben Lawson	Television series
1992	Jake and the Fatman	Assistant	episode "There'll Be Some Changes Made"
1993	The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air	Edward	Television series
	Wings	Gil the Mechanic	Television series
	L.A. Law	Reporter #3	Television series
	Sex, Shock & Censorship	Butch Jones	Television series
	Mad About You	Marshall	Television series
1994	A Cool Like That Christmas	Harlan Sockman	Voice only Animated television film
	Hangin' with Mr. Cooper	Leonard Pickett	Television series
	The George Carlin Show	Bob Brown	Television series
	Pulp Fiction	Marvin	Got shot in the face
	It's Pat	Stage Manager
1995	Living Single	Joe	Television series
1995	Sawbones	Stanley Johnson	Television film
1995–2000	MADtv	Various Characters	Sketch comedy television series 112 episodes
1996	Bio-Dome	Assistant
1998	One Hand, Left	Narrator	Voice only Short film
	The Wild Thornberrys	Tuku	Voice only Animated series
	Zoomates	Warren Solicitor Guy #1	Voice only Animated short film
	Suicide, the Comedy	Erik
	The Thin Pink Line	Jimmy 'Licorice Whip' Wilson
	Free Enterprise	Eric
1999	Hey Arnold!	Jamie O	Voice only Animated series
	The Happy Prince	Second Pigeon New Mayor	Voice only Animated television film
	Kill the Man	Marky Marx
1999–Present	Futurama	Hermes Conrad Additional Voices	Voice only Animated series
1999–Present	Family Guy	Ollie Williams Judge Various characters	Voice only Animated series 52 episodes
2000	The Weekenders	Carver	Voice only Animated series
	Lost Cat	Lost Cat
	Evil Con Carne	Hector Con Carne	Voice only Animated series
	Eat Your Heart Out	Stage manager
	A Man Is Mostly Water	Testifier
2000–2001	Nikki	Richard	Television series
2000–2001	Yes, Dear	Steve	Television series
2000–2004	Static Shock	Virgil Ovid Hawkins/Static	Voice only Animated series
2001	Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty	Vamp	Voice only Video game
	NYPD Blue	Sidney Thompson	Television series
	Philly	Anthony	Television series
	Speaking of Sex	Joel Johnson, Jr.
	The Assistant	Burton Salt	Television series
2001–2004	Samurai Jack	Jack	Voice only Animated series
2001–2006	The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy	Hector Con Carne Irwin's Dad Dracula Judge Roy Splean various	Voice only Animated series
2001–2006	Justice League/Justice League Unlimited	John Stewart/Green Lantern Steel	Voice only Animated series
2002	Manna from Heaven	Asst. Casino Manager
	Invader Zim	Poop Dawg The Letter M Noogums/shnooky	Voice only Animated series
	Evil Alien Conquerors	Vel-Dan
	Back by Midnight	Mile Away
	Cherish	Yoga instructor
	Jane White Is Sick & Twisted	Bert
2002-2004	Fillmore!	Nelson Kelloch, MC, Elderly Man, Snooty Student	Voice only Animated series
2002–2007	Kim Possible	Vinnie	Voice only Animated series
2003	Ozzy & Drix	Osmosis Jones	Voice only Animated series
	Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic	Gadon	Voice only Video game
	Without a Trace	Tom Lewis Jr.	episode "Kam Li"
	Creepy Freaks	Assorted freaks	Direct-to-video short film
2004	The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius	Bolbi Stroganofsky	Voice only Animated series
	Scooby-Doo and the Loch Ness Monster	Angus Haggart Volunteer #2	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	Ground Control II: Operation Exodus		Voice only Video game
	The Fairly OddParents	Mr. Phifer	Voice only Animated series
	Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines	Various voices	Voice only Video game
	Reno 911!	Craps guy	Television series
	Cold Case	Kiki Solis	Episode "Discretion"
	Shark Tale	Pawn shop owner	Voice only Animated
	Quake 4	Marines	Voice only Video game
	Spider-Man 2	Train Passenger	Uncredited
2004–2005	Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law	Black Vulcan	Voice only Animated series
2004-2009	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends	Wilt Additional voices	Voice only Animated series
2005	Samurai uesutan: Katsugeki samurai-dô	Donald Thrower	Voice only Video game
	Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction	Christopher Jacobs News Correspondent 2	Voice only Video game
	The Life and Times of Juniper Lee	Marcus Connor Additional voices	Voice only Animated series
	Kim Possible Movie: So the Drama		Voice only Animated television film
	Catscratch	Squeakus – Mouse	Voice only Animated series
	Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story	Ollie Williams Additional voices	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	The Proud Family Movie	Dr. Carver in Disguise Board member	Voice only Animated television film
	Jak X: Combat Racing	G.T. Blitz Sig Mizo Kaeden Thugs	Voice only Video game
	The Matrix: Path of Neo	Operator Ballard SWAT Soldier	Voice only Video game
	True Crime: New York City		Voice only Video game
	50 Cent: Bulletproof	Bugs	Voice only Video game
	Loonatics Unleashed	Drake Sypher	Voice only Animated series
	Second Time Around	Myron
	Barbershop: The Series	Derrick	Television series
2005–2008	Robot Chicken	Ang Lee Squirrel Michael Jackson	Voice only Stop motion animated series
2006	The Batman	Maxie Zeus	Voice only Animated series
	The Adventures of Brer Rabbit	Brer Gator	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	Choose Your Own Adventure: The Abominable Snowman	Pasang	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	My Gym Partner's a Monkey	Virgil "Bull" Sharkowski Additional voices	Voice only Animated series
	Tekkonkinkreet	Dusk	Voice only
	The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning	Kane	Voice only Video game
	Final Fantasy XII^[3]	Reddas	Voice only Video game
	Marvel: Ultimate Alliance	T'Challa/Black Panther Colossus Moon Knight Uatu the Watcher	Voice only Video game
	Drawn Together	Ray-Ray UPS Man	Voice only Animated series
	Class of 3000	Philly Phil	Voice only Animated series
	Scarface: The World Is Yours	Drug dealer	Voice only Video game
	Avatar: The Last Airbender	The 52nd Earth King Kuei	Voice only Animated series
	Cook-Off!	Rev. Thaddeus Briggs, Esq.
2007	Afterworld	Col. Nixon	Voice only Animated web series
	TMNT	Various voices	Voice only Animated
	Futurama: Bender's Big Score	Hermes Conrad Additional voices	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	Afro Samurai	Afro (teenager) Brother 1 Brother 3 Brother 5	Voice only Animated miniseries
	El Tigre: The Adventures of Manny Rivera	Raheem Captain Photon	Voice only Animated series
	Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions	Ramza Beoulve	Voice only Video game
	Curb Your Enthusiasm	Pharmacist	Television series
	Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight	Riverwind Gilthanas	Voice only Animated
2008	Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots	Vamp	Voice only Video game
	Mercenaries 2: World in Flames	Christopher Jacobs	Voice only Video game
	Futurama: The Beast with a Billion Backs	Hermes Conrad Additional voices	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	Transformers Animated	Jazz Oil Slick Jetstorm Alpha Trion	Voice only Animated series
	The Spectacular Spider-Man	Randy Robertson Joseph "Robbie" Robertson Fancy Dan/Ricochet	Voice only Animated series
	Wolverine and the X-Men	Remy LeBeau/Gambit Bolivar Trask	Voice only Animated series
	Condemned 2: Bloodshot	LeRue Bum	Voice only Video game
	Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa	Tour Guide	Voice only Animated
	Saints Row 2	Mr. Sunshine	Voice only Video game
	Phineas And Ferb	Street Performer Bangaroo Security Guard	Voice only Animated series
	Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Kit Fisto Bail Organa Orn Free Taa	Voice only Animated series
2009	F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin	Cedric "Top" Griffin	Voice only Video game
	[PROTOTYPE]	Dr. Bradley Rangland	Voice only Video game
	inFAMOUS	John White	Voice only Video game
	Futurama: Into the Wild Green Yonder	Hermes Conrad and other voices	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
2010	Darksiders	Vulgrim	Voice only Video game
	Mass Effect 2	Mouse, Rukar	Voice only Video game
	Big Time Rush	Hawk	Television film
	Monkey Island 2 Special Edition: LeChuck's Revenge	Captain Dread Woody the Woodsman Governor Phatt's Guard Skeleton^[4]	Voice only Video game
	Young Justice	Arthur Curry/Aquaman Dubbilex L-Ron Green Beetle	Voice only Animated series
	Tom and Jerry Meet Sherlock Holmes	Spike Policeman	Voice only Direct-to-video animated film
	The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes^[5]	JARVIS Wonder Man	Voice only Animated series
2011	inFAMOUS 2	John White	Voice only Video game
	G.I. Joe: Renegades	Scrap-Iron Doc	Voice only Animated series
	Dead Island	Sam B.	Voice only Video game
	Real Steel	ESPN Boxing Commentator
	X-Men: Destiny	Gambit Forge	Voice only Video game
	Night of the Hurricane	Ollie Williams	Voice only Television special
2012	Happy Endings	Phil	episode "Makin' Changes"
	Napoleon Dynamite TV series	Gorilla Lead Singer	Voice only Animated series
	Ultimate Spider-Man	J.A.R.V.I.S.	Voice only Animated Series
	Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles	Baxter Stockman	Voice only Animated series
	Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance	Phoebus	Voice only Video game
	Darksiders II	Vulgrim	Voice only Video game
2013
	Dead Island Riptide	Sam B.	Voice only Video game
	Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance	Kevin Washington	Voice only Video game

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