Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1934-05-10
Day of Death
2015-02-12
Place of Birth
Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Gary Owens
Biography
Gary Owens (born Gary Bernard Altman; May 10, 1934 - February 12, 2015) was an American disc jockey, voice actor, radio announcer and personality. His polished baritone speaking voice generally offered deadpan recitations of total nonsense, which he frequently demonstrated as the announcer on Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In. Owens was equally proficient in straight or silly assignments and was frequently heard on television and radio as well as in commercials. He was best known, aside from being the announcer on Laugh-In, for providing the voice of the titular superhero on Space Ghost and Blue Falcon in Dynomutt, Dog Wonder. He also played himself in a cameo appearance on Space Ghost Coast to Coast in 1998. Owens' first cartoon-voice acting was performing the voice of Roger Ramjet on the Roger Ramjet cartoons. He later served as voice of the over-the-air digital network Antenna TV. Description above from the Wikipedia article Gary Owens, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (53)
I Know That Voice
2014
Lunch
2012
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
2008
Garfield and Friends: Dreams & Schemes
2007
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1900-1920
2007
The Aristocrats
2005The Making of the Tortoise & the Hare
2005
Comic Book: The Movie
2004
The Story of The Tortoise & the Hare
2002
Jane White Is Sick & Twisted
2002The Making of a Mobster: 'Mickey Blue Eyes'
1999
Muppets from Space
1999Border to Border
1998
