George Lowe, the voice actor perfect identified for the long-running cult-favorite Cool animated film Community and Grownup Swim collection “House Ghost Coast to Coast,” died Sunday at age 67, a consultant showed Tuesday.
No explanation for demise was once given Tuesday, despite the fact that pal and radio host “Marvelous Marvin” Boone wrote Tuesday on social media that Lowe had died after “a protracted sickness.”
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3:20 p.m. March 5, 2025This tale has been up to date with a commentary from George Lowe’s circle of relatives.
On Wednesday, the circle of relatives issued a commentary, announcing that they had been “grief-stricken and not able to reply” quicker.
“George Lowe had optional center surgical treatment, and as he recovered, was once met with many demanding situations,” the commentary stated. “During the last few months, his friends and family were through his facet in beef up and take care of him. The circle of relatives will honor his needs and his outstanding existence with a non-public celebratory provider.”
“I’m past devastated,” he stated on Fb. “My Zobanian brother and perfect pal for over 40 years, George Lowe, has gave up the ghost after a protracted sickness. Part of me had additionally died. He was once a supremely proficient Artist and Voice actor. A real warm-hearted Genius. Funniest guy on Earth too. I’ve stolen jokes from him for many years. He stole a few of mine. He was once additionally the voice of House Ghost and so a lot more.”
Casper Kelly, the writer-producer-director at the back of Grownup Swim’s “Your Lovely Face Is Going to Hell,” remembered Lowe on X, writing, “Splendidly type and humorous guy. Sensible improvisor. Artwork collector. Raconteur. House Ghost was once genius and helped herald a brand new wave of oddball television.”
Voice-over actor Billy West stated Tuesday on X that Lowe “was once mighty and one of the crucial perfect of the most productive VOs ever. Very beneficiant of spirit and really type… and humorous humorous humorous. He’s going to be ignored.”
“My center is damaged. George Lowe was once one of the crucial funniest folks I’ve ever identified and one of the crucial nicest folks to ever exist. You’ll be ignored greater than you realize my pal. RIP,” Tim Frasier, an govt manufacturer at iHeartRadio subsidiary Premiere Networks, stated Tuesday on Fb.
Michael Stipe of R.E.M. vibes with talk-show host House Ghost — voiced through George Lowe — in an episode of “House Ghost Coast to Coast.”
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“Extremely heartbroken to be informed that very long time broadcasting good friend George Lowe (Respectable) has gave up the ghost,” radio host and voice-over artist Roy Hersey stated, additionally on Fb. “One of the vital inventive and funniest folks I’ve ever identified. We labored in combination at Energy 99 in Atlanta ahead of he turned into the voice of #spaceghostcoasttocoast at the Cool animated film Community. … I visited with him only recently at his house in Lakeland, Florida. So happy I were given to look him one final time. If there’s a heaven, he’s were given ’em in [stitches].”
Lowe was once born Nov. 10, 1957, in Dunedin, Fla., and labored in radio ahead of transferring to voice performing within the Nineteen Nineties. He was once additionally a visible artist and artwork collector, consistent with the American Visionary Artwork Museum, in the long run gathering masses of works together with Pop Artwork prints through Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg and others.
House Ghost, who originated within the Sixties on CBS (courtesy of Hanna-Barbera Productions), advanced within the Nineteen Nineties from a major fighter of outer-space supervillains into an irreverent talk-show host on a reveal that combined animation and live-action.
“House Ghost Coast to Coast” was once billed as the primary late-night reveal to function a cool animated film superhero as its host, and all through its run from 1994 to 1999 and on and off till 2012, it welcomed visitors together with Björk, Adam Carolla, Conan O’Brien, Bob Costas and Michael Stipe of R.E.M., to call a couple of. The visitors had been filmed stay and inserted into the animated reveal.
At the premiere, vitamin guru Susan Powter, comedian Kevin Meaney and the Bee Gees had been House Ghost’s visitors, accompanied through his TV band — led through former archenemies Moltar and Zorak.
Lowe took over the House Ghost gig from “Rowan & Martin’s Snort-In” announcer Gary Owens, who voiced the superhero all through his early, extra severe stints within the Sixties and Nineteen Eighties. Owens, who died in 2015, made a cameo look as a House Ghost replicant in a Season 5 episode of “Coast to Coast.” Within the episode, titled “Warren,” Lowe’s House Ghost destroyed Owens’ replicant.
“The wonderful thing about House Ghost is that he’ll be returning at a time when heroes like X-Males and Batman are particularly well-liked,” former Cool animated film Community govt Mike Lazzo informed The Occasions in 1994. “Right here we have now a hero operating together with his former enemies and there’s a fully crazy, nutty spin, making one thing for each youngsters and their oldsters.”
Lowe voiced a lot of roles on Grownup Swim presentations together with “Robotic Rooster,” “The Brak Display” and “Aqua Teenager Starvation Power,” and in 2024 voiced House Ghost within the Season 3 “House Con” episode of “Jellystone!” The voice actor frolicked lately assembly enthusiasts at more than a few Comedian-Cons and equivalent gatherings.
Artwork through Lowe is hung on the Prime Museum of Artwork in Atlanta, the Georgia Museum in Athens, Ga., the Polk Museum in Lakeland, Fla., and the American Visionary Artwork Museum in Baltimore, consistent with the latter museum’s website online.
Former Occasions group of workers publisher N.F. Mendoza contributed to this publish.
