Is this true?

[Scythemantis]

I heard the guy who did the voice of garfield and peter venkman (sorry the name is on the tip of my brain) died recently?

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Sting chameleon
I heard the guy who did the voice of garfield and peter venkman (sorry the name is on the tip of my brain) died recently?

I heard that on the radio this morning on the news. It's rather sad.

[Calhoun07]

Wasn't the voice of Garfield also the voice of Rhoda's doorman on the 70's TV series?

[joker]

man this sucks, he was a funny guy, any one know how he died?

[don Jaime]

Folks, you might want to check the news page for Gookie's obituary for Lorenzo Music. There's also a link dedicated to him on the WBC Board.

[Jowy Blight]

I heard the guy who did the voice of garfield and peter venkman (sorry the name is on the tip of my brain) died recently?

Really? That's so sad, he was quite funny. Well, he's in a better place now.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Said it before, I'll say it again, he was a funny guy...rest in peace: He'll always be remembered.

[Mr. Eye]

Wow that sucks. My condolences to his family.

Mr. Eye

[James Harvey]

That's a real shame. He IS Garfeild. He's the voice I hear when I read those cartoons.

[DerekPowers]

you got that right dg, that guy will always be garfield, he did a great job and left behind a very beautiful present to the world.

[Calhoun07]

Yes! To answer my own question, he was the voice of Carlton the Doorman on Rhoda! But I also found out in looking for my answer that he's been in quite a bit more that we may have over looked. So, in memory of this great man, here's his filmography...

Actor - filmography
(1990s) (1980s) (1970s) (1960s)

"Darkwing Duck" (1991) TV Series (voice) .... Additional Voices
"Tale Spin" (1990) TV Series (voice) .... Dunder


"Fantastic Max" (1988) TV Series (voice) .... Additional Voices
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (1988) (TV) (voice) .... Garfield the Cat
"Garfield and Friends" (1988) TV Series (voice) .... Garfield
Garfield Goes Hollywood (1987) (TV) (voice) .... Garfield
"Real Ghostbusters, The" (1986) TV Series (voice) .... Peter Venkman (I) (1986-1987)
Adventures of the American Rabbit, The (1986)
Garfield in Paradise (1986) (TV) (voice) .... Garfield
Fluppy Dogs (1986) (TV) (voice) .... Ozzie (1986)
"Gummi Bears, The" (1985) TV Series (voice) .... Tummi
... aka "Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears" (1985) (USA)
Garfield's Halloween Adventure (1985) (TV) .... Garfield
Garfield in the Rough (1984) (TV) (voice) .... Garfield
Twice Upon a Time (1983) (voice) .... Ralph, the All-Purpose Animal
"Pac-Man" (1982) TV Series (voice) .... Super-Pac
Here Comes Garfield (1982) (TV) (voice) .... Garfield
Oh, Heavenly Dog! (1980) .... Carlton


Nickelodeon (1976) .... Mullins
"Rhoda" (1974) TV Series (voice) .... Carlton the Doorman


"Jetsons, The" (1962) TV Series .... Additional Voices

[Jowy Blight]

I didn't know he did Darkwing Duck.

[DR. BELCH]

He wasn't the voice of Darkwing--that was Jim Cummings. Music voiced a radioactive spider who bit D.W. and caused him to grow extra arms. As mentioned, he was also Garfield, Carlton the doorman, Larry the crash dummy, Tummi Gummi, Peter Venkman, and others. He will be missed. :(

[mxyzptlk]

man i love garfield.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Yeah, I love Garfield too, and I guess the show's pretty much has no hope of returning now with Music dead....dang...
I hear the voice when I read the comic too, DickGrayson! Or is it good to hear voices?:p

[Jowy Blight]

Or is it good to hear voices?

Well, I hear Kevin Conroy's voice when I read Batman, so I would say yeah.

[optimal321]

Goodbye, you great actor. Garfield will never be the same w/o you.

[Sveven Dvorking]

All the Garfield series are old by now, but I believe Nickelodeon showed some reruns of Garfield and Friends in 2000.


Was he involved in directing music? With that last name, you would think so...:rolleyes:

[Calhoun07]

Actually, the last names of people originated back in history when the last names of people were given based on their occupation. A George Mason, for example, probably had ancestors who were masons themselves. So perhaps Mr Music's ancestors studied music or played or something do with music, you never know. He sure got the gene to entertain people from somewhere!

I suppose my last name of Stoneking is something to ponder. Sounds rather....royal! Now, some names I do wonder about...Harryman or Dickenson...hmmmmm? And there sure must have been alot of people who were smiths of some sort in history, black smiths or what have you, given the popularity of that last name.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

...my last name is a shortened spelling (over the centuries) on...
...Wildgoose (the original last name in the colonial times of U.S.A.) . I hate to think what my anscestors were like.....(shudders) At least you, Calhoun, got a chance of royalty, my name makes it sound like my line was once a deranged bird!

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by BorgeoisBuffoon
...my last name is a shortened spelling (over the centuries) on...
...Wildgoose (the original last name in the colonial times of U.S.A.) . I hate to think what my anscestors were like.....(shudders) At least you, Calhoun, got a chance of royalty, my name makes it sound like my line was once a deranged bird!

Yeah, that is an unique one! It sounds like it's of Indian origin. Indians always had cool ways of picking names.

[Joe Tully]

As noted in the filmography, Lorenzo Music voiced Ralph, the all purpose animal in Twice Upon A Time, which has been featured on Cartoon Theater. I've meant to see it, but missed it the few times it was on. Hey CN! Show it again to show a little respect!

I never knew that that cartoon was so old...The animation seemed kind of cool. It used lumage, which is the process of using cutouts and moving them slowly to imitate motion. This is what is used for South Park and the Monty Python animations. But Twice Upon A Time seemed to make it very fancy looking in comparison to those two. Very cool.:)

[Maxie Zeus]

Well, Music's name, like so many other American names, is going to be tricky or impossible to trace. Too many names were dropped, changed or altered beyond recognition at Ellis Island and other immigration points.

One of the family names on my mother's side, for instance, is "Dishroon," which has been spelled in so many different ways in so many American locales (from "Dishrune" to "D'Eshrun") that no one in the family knows if it is Norwegian, French, or something else entirely. And that's only the language which is obscure, not the potential meaning!

I would bet (not a lot of money, but some) that Music's name was an anglicization from a central or eastern European name. "Muzhik," for instance, is the Russian word for "peasant."

[Sveven Dvorking]

My mother's maiden name is French for "The Port". I wonder if her ancestors were shipworkers?

[DR. BELCH]

My grandmother was married first to a man named Sweet (my surname as well--candymakers, perhaps, in antiquity?), then to a Carter (presumably some ancestor drove a horse-wagon)...and my mother's maiden name was Taylor (clothworkers). So family names are indeed taken from their professions...which makes you wonder about comedian Andy Dick. :p

[Calhoun07]

Hmmm...Perhaps Andy Dick's ancestors were bank guards?

[Nightflower]

You know the old joke Amanda Hugginkiss? At work, they spelt my name "Amanda Wang" on the roster >.<

[langden alger]

yeah i'm really saddened by his passing....he'll definetley be misssed. it sucked when he stopped doing the voice of peter venkmen on the real ghostbusters...dave coulie-or however you spell his name-a.k.a joey gladstone on full house..he just plain sucked as the new peter venkmen voice...he couldn't shine music's shoes...r.i.p

[Calhoun07]

The guy who played Otis on the old Andy Griffith shows died a couple years back, and he was the voice for Whit on the Adventures in Odyssey radio series, a great show by the way. When he died, they brought in his son, Jason, to take the characters place, but they eventually wrote Whit back in the show with a new actor playing Whit. While the actor kinda sounded like the original actor, the differences could be heard.

So...my question...should they just retire characters when the voices who voiced them for so long pass on? I suppose it would be hard to do with Garfield, but I do wish they had one that on Adventures in Odyssey.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

I think they should. Never heard of Oddessy (sorry....), but they have retired voices on the Simpsons; Groening said it would be an insult to the actor to have his/her char taken up by someone else. I have to agree with him.

[Calhoun07]

Adventures is Odyssey, for those who don't know what it is, is a radio series put out by Focus on the Family, headed by James Dobson, a quite conservative Chrisitan watch group over the media. Advenutes in Odyssey is perhaps the best radio show I've heard well...since the days of old radio! I don't know who else is doing anything quite like it. They must have 30 CDs of episodes out now, 12 half hour episodes per set.