Lorenzo Music
Birth name	Gerald David Music
Born	May 2, 1937 Brooklyn, New York
Died	August 4, 2001 (aged 64) Los Angeles, California, USA
Notable roles	Garfield Carlton the Doorman in Rhoda Tummi Gummi in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears Peter Venkman in The Real Ghostbusters

Gerald David Music, (better known as Lorenzo Music (May 2, 1937 – August 4, 2001 in Brooklyn, New York), was an American actor, voice actor, writer, television producer and musician. He is best known as the original voice of the animated cartoon cat Garfield. Other notable roles includes the voice of Carlton the doorman on the television show Rhoda, Tummi Gummi in Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears and Larry the Crash Test Dummy in a series of 1980's public service announcements about wearing seat belts in vehicles. May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis featuring Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. ... Rhoda is an American situation comedy and a television spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. ... Peter Venkman, Ph. ... This article is about the animated spin-off of the 1984 film Ghostbusters. ... May 2 is the 122nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (123rd in leap years). ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... For other meanings, see Brooklyn (disambiguation). ... Actors in period costume sharing a joke whilst waiting between takes during location filming. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... A writer is anyone who creates a written work, although the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A Television producer oversees the making of television penis programs. ... “Instrumentalist” redirects here. ... A cartoon is any of several forms of illustrations with varied meanings that evolved from its original meaning. ... Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: garfield }} Garfield is a fictional character comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. ... Rhoda is an American situation comedy and a television spin-off of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. ... Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. ... A public service announcement or PSA is a non-commercial advertisement—typically on U.S. or Canadian radio or television, broadcast for the public good. ...

Early career

Music was raised in Duluth, Minnesota where he attended Central High School in Duluth and later the University of Minnesota-Duluth. There he met his wife, Henrietta, and they formed a comedy duo Gerald and His Hen. They performed successfully for 8 years. Duluths canal connects Lake Superior to the Duluth-Superior harbor and the St. ... University of Minnesota Duluth The University of Minnesota Duluth (UMD) regional university part of the University of Minnesota System located in Duluth, Minnesota. ... The word comedy has a classical meaning (comical theatre) and a popular one (the use of humor with an intent to provoke laughter in general). ...

Music changed his first name to Lorenzo for spiritual reasons after he became a member of the international spiritual association Subud. Subud (pronounced IPA: ) is an international spiritual association of people of all religions as well as people with no religious affiliation. ...

1970s success

Music got his first professional job providing various voices to the cartoon The Jetsons in 1962. He became a writer and a regular performer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour during 1968 and 1969. His work as a writer on The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970 would lead him to his big break. The Jetsons was a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. ... See also: 1961 in television, other events of 1962, 1963 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1962-63 American network television schedule. ... The Smothers Brothers are an American musical-comedy team, formed by real-life brothers Tom and Dick Smothers. ... See also: 1967 in television, other events of 1968, 1969 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1968-69 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1968 in television, other events of 1969, 1970 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1969-70 American network television schedule. ... Mary Tyler Moore is an American television sitcom created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns that aired on CBS from September 19, 1970 to March 19, 1977. ... See also: 1969 in television, other events of 1970, 1971 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1970-71 American network television schedule. ...

Music was the creator of The Bob Newhart Show which went on the air in 1972 and ran for six years. He also co-wrote the theme song to the show with his wife Henrietta. He continued writing for the Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda. While casting Rhoda, the producers were looking for a voice actor to play the part of a character that would be heard but never seen: Carlton the doorman. When they heard Music's sleepy, husky voice, they offered him that role, which made his voice recognizable to a worldwide television audience. The Bob Newhart Show is the name of two different television series. ... See also: 1971 in television, other events of 1972, 1973 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1972-73 American network television schedule. ...

In 1976, Lorenzo and Henrietta were given the opportunity to host a television variety show of their own. The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show was produced in an era with a glut of television variety shows and did not last. This is a list of television-related events in 1976. ...

At the end of Rhoda, Carlton was given his own special. The animated Carlton Your Doorman aired in 1980, winning that year's "Outstanding Animated Program" Emmy. Carlton Your Doorman was a 1980 television special starring the (previously) unseen doorman Carlton from the sitcom Rhoda. ... This is a list of television-related events in 1980. ... An Emmy Award. ...

Garfield

In 1982, Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield was the most popular strip in America. Compilation books of the strip were topping best seller lists, and Davis was negotiating to make an animated television special. Producers needed someone to voice the main character in the strip: Garfield, a lazy, oafish and demanding cat. After one audition, Music was cast as the voice of Garfield (in Davis's words, "I looked at the room full of (voice) actors, and then in the corner I saw Lorenzo, quietly licking himself"). The year 1982 in television involved some significant events. ... James Robert Jim Davis (born July 28, 1945), is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield. ... This article is about the comic strip, the sequential art form as published in newspapers and on the Internet. ... Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis featuring Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from...

On a 1988 television special celebrating the 10th anniversary of Garfield, Jim Davis remarked, apparently facetiously, that Lorenzo Music was a man "whose face I've never seen." This may have been a tongue-in-cheek joke referring to the fact that Music avoided being photographed, or possibly was in reference to Music's positioning in the voice recording studio, where only the back of his head was visible from the studio's sound engineering booth. This is a list of television-related events in 1988. ... Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis featuring Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. ... There are different notable people named Jim Davis: Jim Davis, the cartoonist of Garfield. ...

Music's voice became an American staple: no fewer than 12 Garfield television specials were produced and the Garfield and Friends animated television series ran for seven years. Music was called upon to help write and produce the shows as well. Music became a favorite in the animation community voicing characters for shows such as TaleSpin, The Real Ghostbusters, Disney's Adventures of the Gummi Bears, and Darkwing Duck. In the mid-1990s, after both Garfield and Friends and Darkwing Duck went off the air, Music retired from cartoon voice over work. Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the popular comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. ... TaleSpin was a half-hour American animated television series spin-off of The Jungle Book that first aired as part of The Disney Afternoon. ... This article is about the animated spin-off of the 1984 film Ghostbusters. ... Disneys Adventures of the Gummi Bears was an American animated television series that aired in the United States in the mid-1980s through the early 1990s. ... Darkwing Duck is an Emmy-nominated American animated television series produced by The Walt Disney Company that ran from 1991 to 1995 on both the syndicated programming block The Disney Afternoon and Saturday mornings on ABC. It featured an eponymous superhero anthropomorphic duck with the alter ego of Drake Mallard...

In 1996, Music's voice could be heard on Stan Freberg's Stan Freberg Presents the United States of America Volume Two album, released as a CD by Rhino Records. Music appears on the album as James Madison and Robert E. Lee. He was also rumored to appear on the final album of the series, Volume Three, but the album has not been released, as of 2005. See also: 1996 in music (UK) Musical groups established in 1996 Record labels established in 1996 // January 8 - Madonnas stalker, Robert Hoskins is found guilty and convicted on five charges of assault, stalking, and threatening to kill the singer. ... Stanley Victor Freberg (born August 7, 1926 in Los Angeles) is an American author, recording artist, animation voice actor, comedian, puppeteer and advertising creative director. ... Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label. ... James Madison (March 16, 1751 – June 28, 1836), an American politician and fourth President of the United States of America (1809–1817), was one of the most influential Founders of the United States. ... // This article is about the Confederate general. ... 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

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Death and 'afterlife'

In 2001, Music died from complications related to lung and bone cancer. He is survived by his wife, Henrietta; his daughters Roz and Leilani and his sons Fernando and Sam. Daughter Roz is a prominent Hollywood make-up artist (Adaptation, The Virgin Suicides). Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Lung cancer is the malignant transformation and expansion of lung tissue, and is the most lethal of all cancers worldwide, responsible for 1. ... Osteosarcoma is the most common type of malignant bone cancer, accounting for 35% of primary bone malignancies. ... Adaptation. ... The Virgin Suicides is the 1993 debut novel by American writer Jeffrey Eugenides. ...

In 2004 Bill Murray connected with Lorenzo Music for the second time by voicing Garfield in Garfield: The Movie. Music had voiced Peter Venkman on seasons 1-3 of the TV series The Real Ghostbusters (1986–1991), a reprise of Murray's 1984 film role. A deadpan delivery provided a common link between the two men. The year 2004 in film involved some significant events. ... William James Bill Murray (b. ... Garfield (also known as Garfield: The Movie) is a 2004 live-action movie based on the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield. ... This article is about the animated spin-off of the 1984 film Ghostbusters. ... Deadpan is a form of comedic delivery in which humour is presented without exhibiting a change in emotion or facial expression. ...

After developing the mystique of the faceless voice, Lorenzo Music made a point of not being photographed. However, an article with a photograph is listed below in the external links along with a link to an autographed photo with Garfield. However, his face was fully visible in a series of television commercials for the Speedy Auto Repair Company.

Trivia

Music's last name is from the Czech language and means, roughly, "little Moses."[1] A family name, or surname, is that part of a persons name that indicates to what family he or she belongs. ... Czech (čeština []) is one of the West Slavic languages, along with Slovak, Polish, Pomeranian (Kashubian), and Lusatian Sorbian. ... Moses with the Tablets, 1659, by Rembrandt This article is about the Biblical figure. ...

External links

• Lorenzo Music at the Internet Movie Database