I was playing Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic last night, when I suddenly realized the voice of one of the characters I was speaking with was none other than Phil LaMarr. Yes, Phil LaMarr, who must be working overtime, because it seems like every day I hear his voice somewhere.


While he’s probably best known for being the guy who got his brains splattered in Pulp Fiction or his work on Mad TV, he’s actually been doing an insane amount of voiceover work in the last few years. He’s the voice of Green Lantern on the Justice League show, the voice of Static Shock, he’s Samurai Jack, he’s the voice of Hermes, the rastafarian accountant on Futurama (“tally me banana!“), he played a couple of characters on Family Guy, he was a deluded warrior in The Animatrix, and he did an admirable job of not laughing out loud at the dumbass dialogue he was forced to spout in Metal Gear Solid 2. And that’s just my quick list…check out this much larger one at the Voice Actor Page…the guy was on Mr. T and the T Force, for god’s sake!


Clearly the guy is a talented voiceover actor. I mean, he had to say “La-li-lu-le-lo” repeatedly without laughing, and he worked alongside Mr. T. Who knew the guy who cowered and splattered in Pulp Fiction was capable of so much?