99, wow. Well at least he can't claim to have been cheated.

Almost made a century. As one of his friends, Don Adams, might have said, "Missed it by that much."

Oh man...I recognize some of those shows and those cartoons!

The early Pink Panther toons with the 'narrator' voices; that was Paul Frees and Larry Storch.

He lived a long life, god bless.

He will be missed but never forgotten resting well forever in peace.

This is the fourth I know about

Tony Sirico died on the 8th too.

Lenny Von Dohlen, from Twin Peaks died on the 5th.

My goodness, I used to watch that when I was less than 10 years old. However I never knew he was also a cartoon voice actor. I'll have to listen to some episodes of those series.

99 years... he hung in there. Rest in peace Larry.

Cool Cat? I hope it was some OTHER Cool Cat than the one I'm thinking of.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoTZZYm2HZI

Oh hell no, this is Cool Cat from the 60s by Warners in its animation death spiral.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cool_.....(Looney_Tunes)

Voiced Merlin The Magic Mouse from the same period and creator/director too.

I just checked out the first Cool Cat short and HOLY GOD are the production values woeful.

Friz Freleng in the mid-to-late 60s knew how to get the most out of a little in a stylised way. Alex Lovy didn't.

Indian fights were colorful sights
And nobody took a lickin'
Where injun and paleface
Both turned chicken.

Yeah. Who's going to help O'Rourke and the Hekawis scam everyone now?

He was also one of the original 1975 Ghost Busters along with his F-Troop co-star.

And Bob Burns as Tracey the gorilla.

I can just barely remember that show, but what I do recall was hilarious.

Most of the eps are on Youtube. There is also a DVD set of the series available.

Thanks. I'll look for them on YT and check the price of that DVD set.

I completely forgot that short lived show.

JFC! Whats WITH this month?!

OH man I didn't realize he was still around. I'm sad to hear about his passing.
I loved watching him in F-Troop and his cameos on Get Smart.

I know hi voice work well in a sense mostly because of underdog and king leonardo

Wally Cox was the voice of Underdog. And King Leonardo was voiced by Jackson Beck....Storch wasn't involved with that series.

but tennesee tuxedo was part of those shows or at least in the packaged versions I grew up on

It was a very minor role, but anyone who watched Kolchak the Night Stalker can remember when Larry showed up as Swede Brytowski, Carl's old buddy from Vegas who encouraged him to get into TV news. "It's a whole new world. Ciao, baby!"

Is the end upon us and the rapture's taking the legends first? Or did someone find a literal death note and trying to catch our attention?
Thank you, for the memorial piece. I'm pretty sure he'd have appreciated it

Lets not forget he was also one of the original Ghostbusters(the name rights were later bought from Filmation for the classic 1980s movie). He played Spencer on the campy ghost busting comedy TV show from 1975. Forrest Tucker also co starred with Larry in the Ghostbusters show just as they did together on F Troop. Those two were an excellent comedic pair now sadly both gone.

That show was called The Ghost Busters (two words, not one.) Filmation combined the words to ride on the success of the movie, which is why the movie-spin-off cartoon was called The Real Ghostbusters (also, in TRGB, the movies existed as a dramatization of the 'real life' of the cartoon.)

yeah & it flopped big time with one season only
but rare to find is the toys
tho I do want a ghost patch & sticker from that show

The main reason it flopped was because it was trying to steal attention from The Real Ghostbusters, as well as the fact that the target demographic had never heard of The Ghost Busters (I only found about the original show YEARS after the cartoon stopped. Only THEN did the ape make sense to be there. Well, as much sense as the original show made.)

that & Flimation used cheap ass animation too

That statement is redundant.

Filmation was FAMOUS for heavy reliance on 'stock footage.' The old joke was that, after the first two episodes, each show was only allotted two seconds (24 frames at 12 frames/second) of new animation, everything else had to re-use the existing cells and backgrounds.

I had forgotten that he was Spencer.

While campy and the effects didn't date well, it's still fun.

He's up there, competing against Harold Ramis for busting ghosts now...

I will always remember him as Cactus Jack from The Great Race.

Now Can I get Me some FIGHTING room?!

Thank you. That placed him for me.

> Cause I wanted to do one of those funny things, like on - you ever watch F Troop? Where Agarn says "There's no way I'm wearin' a dress! Absolutely not! No dress!" And Forrest Tucker's like, "Yeah, you're wearin' that dress! You're gonna wear that dress!" And they wipe and Agarn's wearin' a dress!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmIaL2BK1Zk

The "character actor" someone who could be anyone in the background and often was is a lost art in Hollywood these days.

A long live, fine legacy of work to always remember him. But he'll still be missed.

Dam, another legend gone. Sad to see him go.

Mr Whoopee and his Three Dimensional Blackboard. Gently explaining how things work to Tennessee Tuxedo and Chumley. Also played Marlon the Mynah Bird and almost all of the non Brady male characters in The Brady Kids. Storch was the voice of General Halftrack in a 1980s animated Beetle Bailey special for CBS but network politics left the special unaired.


Storch started out as a celebrity voice mimic and singer in the 1940s.

When Betty White passed away just a day before the new year and just days before her 100th birthday I knew this year was going to be just like 2020 and 21. They all three suck.

I know, right?

yes he was on Tennessee Tuxedo yes but he voiced Phineas J. Whoopee "the man with all the answers"

I just watched F-Troop 2 years ago. Storch was perfect as Agarn.

I remember him, and the show!
99 is a ripe old age (fortunately I’ve got a ways to go).
I didn’t realize he was in Tennessee Tuxedo. I used to love that show as a kid.
His IMDB videography is quite lengthy!

Nice tribute. Had the honor of meeting him once while stationed at Pearl Harbor on Oahu, where he lived at the time. He was as funny in real life as on the screen, and an all-around great guy. They don't make them like him anymore. And your other tributes to those who helped shape our lives is also very thoughtful.

I used to live a few houses away from Lee Marvin in Tucson. And the one thing I learned from him, was if you treat them as a person, not a celebrity, (IE: Ask for autographs or take their photos) you'll go farther in interacting with them. He was always a friendly gentleman around me, plus had a wicked sense of humor too.


I deeply miss him.


And Thanks for the comment on the tributes. Some of them are hard to do, cause that person ment something to me, others , mainly cause they were part of history, life or our daily lives. Sadly I've missed a few folks over the years cause life interrupts, or theres too many at once or in a few cases, didn't even hear about it til later (Hardy Kruger is a prime example). Sadly a few trolls also slam me for these, referring them as "Grasps for attention" and "Dead People Parade", and a few just can't just shut the hell up and turn it into their own Twitter bitch post. (see the Limbaugh tribute)

And a few folks ride my ass cause I missed some person who passed away when I literally never even heard of the person. (Had one fur get very upset I didn't do a tribute to some on-line gamer who OD'd, not my thing.)

I got to kinda rub elbows with him at the Ocean City DooDah parade when he was grand marshal, particularly at the publicity luncheon in NYC. He used to play saxophone in Riverside Park just for fun. His IMDB of cartoon voices is a mile long!
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0832415/