Maurice LaMarche

Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor and former comedian. Across a career spanning more than four decades he has voiced one of Sector V enemies, Benedict Wigglestein-Uno aka "Father" on Codename: Kids Next Door (while Jeff Bennett also voiced Father unsuited), Chief Quimby on Inspector Gadget, Egon Spengler on The Real Ghostbusters, The Brain on Animaniacs and its spin-off Pinky and the Brain, Big Bob on Hey Arnold!, Alec Baldwin in Team America: World Police, Kif Kroker and Calculon on Futurama and dozens of other highly recognizable characters in central and minor roles across film, television, and video games.

LaMarche was born in Toronto, Ontario, on March 30, 1958, to Guy LaMarche and Linda Bourdon. His family moved to Timmins, Ontario, shortly after he was born and moved back to Toronto when he was around 4. LaMarche's childhood was filled with his "own little world of cartoons and sixties television". It was in his second year of high school that he learned of the popularity his talent for mimicry could garner him. This realization came from a coincidental performance in a high school "variety night" when a couple of friends urged him to enter. The act he performed at the variety night was "celebrities as waiters" which he used until the end of his stand-up career.

At the age of nineteen, LaMarche took his high school act to an open mic night in New York City, performing to a reaction in which, as he describes, "they just totally ignored me". This reaction was coupled with the criticism LaMarche received from fellow Canadian comedians who LaMarche describes as discouraging him from pursuing a career outside of Canada. He returned to Canada, continued to do stand-up, and also started a career in voice work.