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Lorenzo Music

1937–2001 · American actor, voice actor, writer, producer and musician

Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music was an American actor, composer, musician, performer, writer and producer. Music began his career in the 1960s with his wife, Henrietta, forming the comedy duo Gerald and His Hen. He then became a writer and a regular performer on the controversial CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In the 1970s, Music co-created the sitcom The Bob Newhart Show with David Davis and composed its theme music with his wife. He also 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. Music gained fame in the 1980s for voicing Jim Davis's comic strip character Garfield in twelve animated specials, and later an animated series, video games, and commercials. His nostalgic, drawling voice as Garfield was imitated by later actors after his death in 2001.

Lorenzo Music, in order

  1. 1970–71 The Mary Tyler Moore Show (TV series): wrote
  2. 1972 The Bob Newhart Show (TV series): created
  3. 1974 Rhoda (TV series): acted
  4. 1976 Nickelodeon: acted · directed by Peter Bogdanovich · critics 14%, audiences 47%
  5. 1976 The Muppet Show (TV series): acted
  6. 1982 Garfield television specials (TV series): acted
  7. 1982 Here Comes Garfield: acted · directed by Phil Roman
  8. 1982 Pac-Man (TV series): acted
  9. 1983 Garfield on the Town: acted · directed by Phil Roman
  10. 1983 Twice Upon a Time: acted · directed by Charles Swenson and John Korty · critics 80%, audiences 91%
  11. 1986 The Adventures of the American Rabbit: acted · directed by Fred Wolf
  12. 1987 A Garfield Christmas: acted · directed by Phil Roman
  13. 1987 Garfield Goes Hollywood: acted · directed by Phil Roman
  14. 1988 Happy Birthday, Garfield: acted · directed by Jim Davis
  15. 1989 Garfield's Thanksgiving: acted · directed by John Sparey and Phil Roman
  16. 1991 Garfield Gets a Life: acted · directed by John Sparey
  17. Garfield: His 9 Lives: acted · directed by Bill Littlejohn and John Sparey