1. Jeffrey Crawford "Lazlow" Jones was born on September 4,1973 and is an American writer, producer, director, voice actor, and radio personality.
23 Facts About Lazlow Jones
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Lazlow Jones is best known for his work with Rockstar Games, with which he has worked on the Grand Theft Auto, Max Payne, and Red Dead Redemption series and for his radio shows Technofile and The Lazlow Show.
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In 2005, Lazlow Jones launched The Lazlow Jones Show on Sundays on WXRK-FM in New York City.
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Lazlow Jones has been involved in writing, producing and doing voice-work as a fictionalized version of himself for the Grand Theft Auto series of video games.
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Lazlow Jones had worked at an advertising agency as a writer and producer, along with writer Reed Tucker on advertisements for a variety of consumer-related products.
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Lazlow Jones produced, scripted and hosted the popular Chatterbox FM radio station in Grand Theft Auto III.
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Lazlow Jones took a larger role in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
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In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, Lazlow Jones co-wrote and produced the in-game media and hosted Entertaining America on WCTR after the original host Billy Dexter was killed by fictional character Jack Howitzer on air.
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Lazlow Jones "returned" as the host of Chatterbox radio show in Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories, although in a minor role in the game's chronology that has Chatterbox as a show on a channel, not an entire channel of its own.
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Lazlow Jones "returned" in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories, which is set in 1984, as an intern at V-Rock working for his real-life friend, Couzin Ed.
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Lazlow Jones is the host of radio station Integrity 2.0 in Grand Theft Auto IV and Grand Theft Auto: Episodes from Liberty City.
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Lazlow Jones is credited among others for creating the conversations of pedestrians in Liberty City.
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Lazlow Jones has an in-game criminal record, as can be seen in the Liberty City Police Department database.
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On 15 September 2013, Lazlow presented a special radio show alongside Pete Donaldson on Absolute Radio in the United Kingdom to celebrate the launch of Grand Theft Auto V He confirmed that he had been working on the game for the last five years.
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Lazlow Jones appears in the game as a co-host of the talk radio show called Chattersphere and as the host of the TV talent competition Fame or Shame.
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Lazlow Jones makes his first on-screen appearance in the series in the mission "Fame or Shame" in which he is chased and threatened by protagonists Michael De Santa and Trevor Philips.
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Lazlow Jones appears in person in other missions, including one in which Michael physically assaults him.
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Lazlow Jones has arranged voice cameos in the Grand Theft Auto series for several key figures from the magazine 2600: The Hacker Quarterly, including Emmanuel Goldstein, Bernie S and Kevin Mitnick.
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Lazlow Jones has collaborated with Rockstar Games on Red Dead Redemption and Max Payne 3, co-writing and directing pedestrian dialogue and in-game media.
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Lazlow Jones was a writer and audio director on Red Dead Redemption 2.
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Lazlow Jones has since operated Radio Lazlow, an independent production company working on projects for studios like Disney and Netflix.
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Lazlow Jones co-founded Absurd Ventures with co-founder of Rockstar Games, Dan Houser.
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Lazlow Jones has written articles for Playboy and the Long Island Press, and was an occasional guest on the Opie and Anthony and Ron and Fez shows on SiriusXM.