Lorenzo Music

Gerald David "Lorenzo" Music was an American writer, producer, performer and voice actor. Music began his career in the 1960s with his wife, Henrietta, forming the comedy duo Gerald and His Hen. He then became a writer and a regular performer on the controversial CBS variety show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. In the 1970s, Music co-created the sitcom The Bob Newhart Show with David Davis and composed its theme music with his wife. He also wrote episodes for The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rhoda, and got a major voiceover role for playing the unseen, but often heard, Carlton the Doorman in Rhoda. Music gained fame in the 1980s for voicing Jim Davis' comic strip character Garfield on twelve animated specials, and later in cartoons, video games, and commercials. His distinctive voice of Garfield was also emulated by other actors following his death in 2001.

2 May 1937

Born on the same birth day (2 May): Alessandro Diamanti • Alfons Schuhbeck • Christine Baranski • James Dyson • Joseph Henry Woodger • Kay Panabaker • Kris Russell • Nigel Patrick • Philip II, Duke of Brunswick-Grubenhagen • Roscoe Lee Browne • Saara Aalto • Valery Gergiev • William Camden • Willie Miller

Born in the same month (May 1937): Allan Carr • Archie Shepp • Brooks Robinson • Delia Derbyshire • Dick Dale • Facundo Cabral • Irmin Schmidt • Jacques Santer • Madeleine Albright • Maryvonne Dupureur • Ron Carter • Thomas Pynchon • Tom Phillips (artist) • Trini Lopez • Una Stubbs • Zohra Lampert