24 Facts About Lorenzo Music

Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music was an American actor, composer, musician, performer, writer and producer.

Lorenzo Music then became a writer and a regular performer on the controversial CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

Lorenzo Music wrote episodes for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, and got a major voiceover role for playing the unseen, but often heard, Carlton the Doorman in Rhoda.

Lorenzo Music gained fame in the 1980s for voicing Jim Davis' comic strip character Garfield in twelve animated specials, and later an animated series, video games, and commercials.

Gerald David Lorenzo Music was born on May 2,1937, in Brooklyn, New York City to Harry and Sophie Lorenzo Music.

Lorenzo Music was six years old when his family moved to Duluth, Minnesota because of his father's job at one of the shipyards.

Lorenzo Music was a student at Central High School and then at the University of Minnesota Duluth.

Lorenzo Music met his wife, Henrietta, in college at its Theatre Arts Department.

Lorenzo Music became a writer and a regular performer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour from 1967 to 1969 and won an Emmy Award for writing.

Lorenzo Music was a writer and story editor on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and he co-created The Bob Newhart Show with his writing partner, David Davis.

Lorenzo Music continued writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda, which he co-developed with Davis.

Lorenzo Music had no interest in being an actor, but the producers loved his sleepy, husky voice and offered him that role, which made his voice recognizable to a worldwide television audience.

Lorenzo Music co-produced and co-wrote a 1980 animated special titled Carlton Your Doorman, which won an Emmy Award.

The Lorenzo and Henrietta Music Show was produced at a time when there was a glut of television variety shows, but it did not last.

In 1983, Lorenzo Music voiced Ralph the All-Purpose Animal in the stop-motion animated film Twice Upon a Time.

Lorenzo Music would serve as the voice of Garfield in all twelve specials, an animated series, video games, and commercials until his death in 2001.

Lorenzo Music voiced characters for the animated series Pac-Man, Adventures of the Gummi Bears, Fluppy Dogs, The Real Ghostbusters, Pound Puppies, TaleSpin, and Darkwing Duck.

In keeping with his beliefs in Subud and its emphasis on charity, Lorenzo Music frequently volunteered his time on a suicide hotline.

Lorenzo Music appeared as an intercom announcer on an episode of The Drew Carey Show.

Lorenzo Music served as the voice-over for commercials for Ore-Ida Potatoes and Fruit and Cream Strawberry Twinkies.

Lorenzo Music later served as the pitchman for Ruggles Ice Cream.

Lorenzo Music died from complications related to lung and bone cancer on August 4,2001, at the age of 64.

Lorenzo Music's body was cremated, and his ashes were scattered at sea.

Coincidentally, Lorenzo Music voiced Peter Venkman in the first two seasons of The Real Ghostbusters before being replaced by Dave Coulier.