20 Facts About Lorenzo Music

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

Lorenzo Music wrote episodes for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, and got his 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 on twelve animated specials, and later in cartoons, video games, and commercials until his death in 2001.

Gerald David Lorenzo Music was born on May 2,1937, in Brooklyn, New York.

Lorenzo Music was six years old when his family moved to Duluth, Minnesota, for 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 at the latter, in the Theatre Arts Department.

Lorenzo Music became a writer and a regular performer on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour during 1968 and 1969.

Lorenzo Music continued writing for The Mary Tyler Moore Show spin-off Rhoda.

Lorenzo Music co-produced and co-wrote a 1980 animated special called 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 the character Ralph the All-Purpose Animal in the stop-motion animated film Twice Upon a Time.

Lorenzo Music last voiced Garfield for an automobile commercial that year.

Lorenzo Music voiced characters for shows such as TaleSpin as Sgt.

In keeping with his beliefs in Subud and 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 later served as the pitchman for Ruggles Ice Cream.

Lorenzo Music died from complications related to lung and bone cancer on August 4,2001, aged 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 animated series of The Real Ghostbusters, before being replaced by Dave Coulier.