George Edward Lowe, a voice actor identified for his work on a number of Grownup Swim cartoons, has died resulting from a protracted sickness, based on Deadline. He was 67 years previous.
Lowe was finest identified for voicing House Ghost on the cult comedy sequence House Ghost Coast to Coast. He additionally contributed to Aqua Teen Starvation Drive, Robotic Hen, Squidbillies, American Dad!, Sealab 2021, and extra, whereas bringing House Ghost to different applications, equivalent to The Brak Present, Jellystone!, and Good Hair Without end.
House Ghost Coast to Coast premiered in 1994. The present centered on the reimagined Hanna-Barbera superhero character House Ghost, now making hay as a zany discuss present host. On this system, House Ghost interviewed quite a few real-life actors and musicians, equivalent to Thom Yorke, David Byrne, Michael Stipe, Willie Nelson, Björk, and Thurston Moore, amongst many others.
Writing about House Ghost Coast to Coast, for The New York Instances, in 1994, Andy Meisler described a few of Lowe’s course of in talking together with his interview topics. “Mr. Lowe conducts the superstar interviews by phone,” Meisler wrote. “The topics hear his questions by an earpiece as they’re videotaped in no matter Turner-controlled tv studio may be discovered.”
He continued: “Solely after Mr. Lowe’s interviews are recorded, nevertheless, is House Ghost’s dialogue written and recorded. That’s why his questions don’t all the time precisely appear to match the friends’ solutions, and that’s how he can get away with being nasty to his friends with out their realizing it. (An instance: ‘Any recommendation for us?’ House Ghost asks Joe Franklin. ‘It’s good to be vital, however extra vital to be good,’ says Joe. ‘Give us one thing we will use,’ replies House Ghost, retroactively.)”
House Ghost Coast to Coast initially ran till the tip of 1999. The present was revived for a second run between 2001 and 2004, and a 3rd and ultimate run between 2006 and 2008. After C. Martin Croker, who voiced House Ghost’s sidekicks, Zorak and Moltar, died in 2016, Grownup Swim paid tribute to the late animator and actor by making many episodes of the present free to stream on-line.
Past his voice-acting work, Lowe was a visible artist and artwork collector. His work has been showcased at Atlanta’s Excessive Museum of Artwork, Baltimore’s American Visionary Artwork Museum, and extra. “Maybe, one teenager looking at one thing in my assortment, or at a piece of mine, shall be touched like I used to be looking at that [Jan Davidsz de Heem] work as a child on the [John and Mable] Ringling [Museum of Art],” Lowe as soon as mentioned, “they usually, too, will develop into impressed to select up a pencil and uncover their very own true voice.”
