Maurice LaMarche

Maurice LaMarche (born March 30, 1958) is a Canadian voice actor, comedian and impressionist. He has voiced the Brain in Animaniacs as well as its spin-off Pinky and the Brain, Big Bob in Hey Arnold! (1996–2004), and a variety of characters in Futurama. He also voiced Egon Spengler in The Real Ghostbusters and its follow-up Extreme Ghostbusters.

LaMarche was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada,[1] on March 30, 1958, to Guy LaMarche and Linda Bourdon.[2] His family moved to Timmins, Ontario, soon after he was born.[3] LaMarche’s childhood was filled with his “own little world of cartoons and sixties television”.[4] It was in his second year of high school that he learned of the popularity his talent for mimicry could garner him. This realization came from a coincidental performance in a high school “variety night” when a couple of friends urged him to enter. The act he performed at the variety night was “celebrities as waiters” which he used until the end of his stand-up career