Phil LaMarr

Birthday: 24 January 1967, Los Angeles, California, USA

Birth Name: Phillip LaMarr

Height: 178 cm

A Los Angeles native, Phil is a graduate of Harvard-Westlake School, Yale University and The Groundlings Theater and is perhaps best known as one of the original cast members of MADtv (1995) and as Marvin in Pulp Fiction (1994).In addition to numerous appearances on stages across the country, in films and on TV, he also starred in and produced the comedy web series Inside the Legend (2012). He has also been profiled for his extensive voice-over work, which includes regular roles on animated series as well as parts in video games like Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor (2014) for which he won the NAVGTR Award for Best Supporting Actor. Show less «

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things tha...Show more »

In video games and animation, you find that the toughest things to make different are the things that aren't words: grunts, groans, gasps. Show less «

Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just...Show more »

Say what you will about the leadership of 'SNL,' they have crafted an institution as opposed to just running a show. I don't think that's by accident. Show less «

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with...Show more »

It's interesting, because I've worked with people who are just not nice people, and I've worked with people who are crazy, and the difference is: crazy is much worse. Show less «

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you ca...Show more »

Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present. Show less «

I was such a 'Star Wars' fan. That was my generation.

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you a...Show more »

If you're doing an animated comedy on the same channel as 'South Park,' no one can really tell you anything. The bar has been set so high. Show less «

My very first professional job was a cartoon, doing voices for the Mr. T cartoon in high school.

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual...Show more »

On 'MADtv,' I discovered I could do Billy Crystal. 'Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the 68th Annual Academy Awards!' Surprisingly, there's more call for that one than you'd think. Show less «

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.

Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they ten...Show more »

Sometimes when you do voices next to each other, especially when you're first starting out, they tend to bleed into each other. Working on a show like 'Futurama,' we do multiple characters there, but we've been doing it for a while, so the voices are really well-defined in our heads. Show less «

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