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

His signature voice is an impersonation of Orson Welles. LaMarche 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. 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 Mrs. Pells Fishsticks (as well as another for Rosebud Frozen Peas). In "Ghostbusters of the Year", an episode of The Real Ghostbusters (in which he provided the voice of Dr. Egon Spengler), he played a "Citizen Kane" type ghost, Charles Foster Hearse.

LaMarche has also portrayed:

• The Kraken, a sea monster, and Hovis the butler on Catscratch
• Father (aka Mr. Wigglestein) on Kids Next Door
• Chief Quimby in Inspector Gadget
• Inspector Gadget in various Inspector Gadget spinoff incarnations
• The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight and The Fin (aka Mr. Smarty Pants) in The Tick
• A robot spoof of Alan Alda's character Hawkeye Pierce, in the Futurama episode "War is the H-Word"
• Numerous secondary characters in Futurama including Kif Kroker, Morbo, Calculon, Lrrr, and Brainspawn
• Egon Spengler in the many incarnations of the Ghostbusters cartoons
• Alec Baldwin in the 2004 feature film, World Police.
• Mortimer Mouse in Mickey Mouse Works and Disney's House of Mouse
• Kellogg's Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam
• Big Bob Pataki in Hey Arnold! Also, in a Hey Arnold Halloween episode, he also voiced an alien hunter, using his Orsen Welles voice.

• Xiaolin Showdown - Master Fung (Seasons 2-3) and many others
• Balto in the Wolf Quest and Wings of Change animated Balto movies, released only on DVD and video
• The animated Willy Wonka character in Nestlé's Willy Wonka Candy Company commercials
• Henry, Mr. Wilson and Ruff from Dennis the Menace
• The android Gus in Tripping the Rift
• Numerous secondary characters in Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
• Nestor in Full Throttle
• Yoshimo and Renal Bloodscalp in the award-winning RPG, Shadows of Amn.
• Principal Pixiefrog, Mr. Hornbill, Mr. Mandrill, and Mr. Blowhole in My Gym Partner's a Monkey
• Larry the Tomato in the Drawn Together episode "Clum Babies"

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Maurice LaMarche