George Edward Lowe, a voice actor identified for his work on a number of Adult Swim cartoons, has died attributable to an extended sickness, in accordance with Deadline. He was 67 years outdated.
Lowe was finest identified for voicing House Ghost on the cult comedy collection House Ghost Coast to Coast. He additionally contributed to Aqua Teen Starvation Pressure, Robotic Rooster, Squidbillies, American Dad!, Sealab 2021, and extra, whereas bringing House Ghost to different packages, comparable to The Brak Present, Jellystone!, and Good Hair Ceaselessly.
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 speak present host. On this system, House Ghost interviewed quite a few real-life actors and musicians, comparable 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 Times, in 1994, Andy Meisler described a few of Lowe’s course of in talking along with his interview topics. “Mr. Lowe conducts the superstar interviews by phone,” Meisler wrote. “The topics hear his questions by means of an earpiece as they’re videotaped in no matter Turner-controlled tv studio will 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 company’ solutions, and that’s how he can get away with being nasty to his company 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 top of 1999. The present was revived for a second run between 2001 and 2004, and a 3rd and closing run between 2006 and 2008. After C. Martin Croker, who voiced House Ghost’s sidekicks, Zorak and Moltar, died in 2016, Adult 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 art collector. His work has been showcased at Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, Baltimore’s American Visionary Art Museum, and extra. “Maybe, one teenager watching one thing in my assortment, or at a piece of mine, shall be touched like I used to be watching that [Jan Davidsz de Heem] work as a child on the [John and Mable] Ringling [Museum of Art],” Lowe as soon as said, “they usually, too, will develop into impressed to choose up a pencil and uncover their very own true voice.”
