Gary Owens
Nacimiento : 1936-05-10, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA
Muerte : 2015-02-12
Historia
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.
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Filmmaker Lawrence Shapiro discusses voice-over acting with the talented people behind the characters.
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For the past 40 years, a group of comedy writers and directors has gathered every other Wednesday for lunch - and other nourishment. These are the fabled guys that made America funny.
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The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others. However, animation was only one of the fields where Blanc shone through in his long career. This film covers the life of this amazingly talented and big hearted actor, comedian and musician as he became one of the performing greats from the golden ages of American animation and radio through to the 1980s.
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After eating a pound of pasta, Garfield sometimes falls asleep and has some pretty wild dreams -- like the one where he's so huge he can climb tall buildings, or where Odie gets his own cartoon, leaving Garfield to just keep sleeping! And this kitty's not so cool he can't get a little scared, like when he, Jon and Odie discover that a closed-down haunted house is really open, or that leftovers occasionally ran rampant in the fridge. Garfield has a big imagination, too, as you'll see when he imagines himself as a fish or a werewolf, or even Jon for a day! There's much more to the fat cat's story, so grab some pasta, flop on the couch and tune in for some cat-toon fun with Garfield!
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Aclamado documental sobre la comedia y los cómicos.
Narrator (voice)
The classic Ray Harryhausen tale that still proves "slow and steady" wins the race.
TV Announcer
For Jane White, life itself is a television program, and she dreams of becoming a star on the small screen. Convincing herself that Gerry King, a popular talk show host, is her birth father, she sets out on an adventurous road trip — aided by her equally looney boyfriend, Dick — to confront her "father" on the air, and, just maybe, make a splash on reality television.
Narrator
UFO Mania Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Con la ayuda de su amigo Rizzo, Gonzo busca a su verdadera familia y descubre que sus parientes son en realidad alienígenas de un lejano planeta. Tras anunciar en el programa de Piggy, "Ovnimanía", que es una prueba viviente de que no estamos solos en el universo, Gonzo es perseguido por K. Edgar Singer, un paranoico agente del gobierno; pero, además, debe decidir entre embarcarse en la nave nodriza y reunirse con su familia o quedarse en la Tierra con los amigos a quien conoce y quiere.
Narrator
A hysterical documentary which uses footage of Ed Wood's movie to tell the story of his life. It may not be a deep analysis, but shows distinctly how Ed's life strongly influenced his own films.
Self
This survey of Earth's oddest animals reveals an astonishing array of jaws, claws, scales, skin, fur and feathers.
Announcer (voice)
Made-for-TV special about a delivery man, his friends, and a talking ape mutating into quirky superheroes and fighting a mad scientist who wants to conquer their futuristic atomic city. Based on the eponymous NES video game.
The Sheriff
Five Vietnam vets, on release from a mental hospital, think they're headed for a weekend camping trip. Instead they become target practice for an army of killers playing violent war games. It's a massacre until one of the vets becomes a machine of revenge.
Minister
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
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The mysterious Dr. Lizardi entrusts Gary and Eric with a dinosaur egg. Now, they must find out everything they can about dinosaurs before the egg hatches. This quest takes them everywhere from Knott's Berry Farm to a dig site deep in the Canandian Badlands...
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First Stop...the Tar Pits, as Gary and Eric investigate the incredible creatures that came after the dinosaurs, from giant ground sloths to savage saber-tooths. It's a trip back to the age of monstrous mammals in this wild and whimsical blast into tour prehistoric past.
Sports Announcer (voice)
Marlon está enamorado de Jessica (candidata a presidenta de la clase de secundaria). Jessica quiere ir a la Universidad de Ramsey. Marlon quiere ir a donde sea que Jessica vaya. Problema: baja puntuación en la universidad.
Self
Comedia que parodia el género del blaxploitation de los años 70. Jack Spade regresa a su hogar tras su servicio militar, y se encuentra con la muerte de su hermano pequeño por "sobredosis de oro". El barrio no es el que era, y los proxenetas y los traficantes se han hecho los dueños. Jack, con la ayuda de unos vecinos, le va a plantar cara a Mr. Big, el amo del barrio. (FILMAFFINITY)
Announcer (voice)
A Halloween special featuring appropriately-themed rock and roll songs set to scenes from the Disney library of classic animation.
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Gary Owens needs more dinosaurs and sends Eric Boardman on the ultimate dinosaur safari to find them. Join the hunt for a living dinosaur in the jungles of Africa, separate the facts from fiction in dinosaur movies, visit Dinosaur National Monuent and much more. There's no bone unturned in this award winning program
Writer
Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey into everything dino while searching for the magic waters needed to stop Gary's odd transformation. Will Eric be too late? Get ready to meet the Garysaurus!
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Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey into everything dino while searching for the magic waters needed to stop Gary's odd transformation. Will Eric be too late? Get ready to meet the Garysaurus!
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In this historical look at Goofy's ancestors, we dig deeper and ungangle the roots of his family tree.
TV announcer
Un escritor que se retira a un faro a escribir acaba despertando el espíritu de una mujer que se suicidó allí y que empieza a poseer uno tras otro a todos los habitantes de la isla.
Narrator
Documentary about the life and work of Ray Harryhausen.
Narrator
Facing impending doom on the planet Krapton, Kid-O, infant son of Jel-O, is sent to earth where he is found and adopted by Ma and Pa Cant. Eventually, the Kraptonian now known as Clark, becomes a newspaper reporter for the Daily Comet. Together with fellow reporter Lois Lame, they uncover a sinister plot by Rex Ruthor, to destroy the world.
Narrator (voice)
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
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Kermit the Frog throws a glamorous party at the Cocoanut Grove nightclub to celebrate the premiere of the Muppets' first feature film, The Muppet Movie. Hosts Dick van Dyke and Rita Moreno interview the wide array of celebrities and Muppets who attend the event. Gary Owens serves as off-camera announcer, and appears on-screen to introduce Miss Piggy.
Narrator
The adventures of many of DC Comics greatest superheroes and villains. In the first episode, "The Challenge," the superheroes must race against time to stop the diabolical super-villains' plot to destroy the world. In the second episode, "The Roast," the superheroes pay tribute to Batman and Robin in the form of a roast which even the villains attend.
Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
La ciudad de Los Angeles vive aterrada ante la posibilidad de un desastre nuclear. Dos desalmados criminales (Christopher Lee y Bette Davis) han tramado un plan diabólico para manipular a un joven que posee poderes sobrenaturales, con el fin de usarlos en su propio beneficio. Sin embargo, la hermana del chico y una banda callejera unen sus fuerzas en un desesperado intento por salvar a la ciudad de la destrucción. Secuela de "La montaña embrujada" (Escape to Witch Mountain, 1975).
Radio Newscaster (voice) (uncredited)
Mel Edison vive con su esposa en un piso situado en la planta decimocuarta de un bloque de apartamentos. Tanto su trabajo como su casa le producen depresión. Pero su situación empeora aún más cuando es despedido y tiene que hacer cola en la oficina de empleo; entonces no le queda más remedio que ponerse en manos de un psiquiatra.
Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
TV adaptation of the campy 1960s Broadway musical about the Man of Steel, his friends, his enemies, and his self-image problems.
Announcer
The Muppets of Sesame Street and the cast of The Electric Company take over the ABC Nightly News when the newsroom staff takes a lunch break.
El doctor Phibes quiere devolver a la vida a su amada esposa Victoria y para ello deberá surcar el Rio de la Vida que fluye en el interior del templo de Isis. Con el fin de lograrlo no reparará en nada y cometerá una serie de atroces crímenes ayudado por su bella robot Vulnavia.
Announcer
Herbie es un Volkswagen escarabajo blanco con voluntad y pensamientos propios en esta aventura de la Disney que relata la relación del coche con sus diversos pilotos y conductores. Douglas (Dean Jones) es un piloto de carreras que, tras comenzar con poco interés por Herbie, cree que su repentina victoria se debe a su habilidad y no a la de nuestro protagonista. Finalmente se dará cuenta del valor del coche cuando un tramposo rival trame un complot para robarle a Herbie.
Narrator (uncredited)
A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign of seduction and murder against the descendants of her persecutors. It's up to the student to stop her bloody reign of terror-if he can resist the seductive powers of her evil beauty.
Narrator
Flannery, a railway agent does everything by the book. He gets into a scrape with a customer, McMorehouse, who wants to pay 44 cents freight for two guinea pigs which he considers pets. Flannery, however, considers them pigs (freight 48 cents), a decision he begins to regret when the animals begin to reproduce.
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A fascinating look at the spectacle of volcanic activity, and a chance to see Gary Owens and Eric Boardman together again after all these years.
