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|image = Andy_Merrill-silly..jpg |caption = Merrill in 2010 |name = Andy Merrill |birth_name = Andrew Ronald Merrill |birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1966|11|27|mf=}} |birth_place = Newark, Ohio, U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |children = 1 |years_active = 1990–present | spouse = {{marriage|Stacy Isenhower|1998}} |occupation = Writer, producer, voice actor }} Andy Ronald Merrill (born November 27, 1966 in Newark, Ohio) [1] is an American voice actor best known for his portrayal of the character Brak on Space Ghost Coast to Coast and Cartoon Planet. Personal lifeMerrill is a graduate of Asbury University, where he majored in media communications. Space Ghost Coast to CoastMerrill joined Cartoon Network within several months of its inception (in 1992), coming over from sister company CNN. He started working in programming, and in 1993 he and then head of programming Mike Lazzo helped put together the first animated late-night talk show, Space Ghost Coast to Coast. He voiced Space Ghost in the first of two unaired pilots for the show. In April 1994, Space Ghost Coast to Coast premiered on Cartoon Network. The concept was that 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon superhero Space Ghost had retired from being a superhero and was hosting his own talk show, in which he interviewed live action celebrity guests, with his old archenemies Zorak and Moltar as band leader and director. To date, the show has had over 90 episodes aired on television, and was one of the motivating forces behind the creation of the Adult Swim programming bracket started in 2001. He helped produce and write for the show for years, and voiced "Council of Doom" members Brak and Lokar, who would appear on the show periodically, mostly Brak. Merrill, along with Coast to Coast friend and co-star George Lowe, wrote on social media that their friend and co-star C. Martin Croker died on September 18, 2016. It was then revealed that Adult Swim would play the first produced episode of Space Ghost Coast to Coast aired 12:30 eastern, 11:30 central that night in honor of Croker's contribution not only to Space Ghost, but many Adult Swim shows in both animation and voice overs. The three of them, along with Dave Willis, Dana Snyder and Carey Means had been friends since their earliest Cartoon Network days. Cartoon PlanetIn 1995, Cartoon Planet premiered on TBS (moving to Cartoon Network in 1996). Merrill wrote and produced the show, along with crew members had worked on Space Ghost Coast to Coast, himself voicing the character of Brak. The main characters on Cartoon Planet were Space Ghost, Zorak and Brak, and it was a show of skits and songs put together with the same limited animation used in Space Ghost Coast to Coast. Originally, the skits and songs were filler for showing old cartoons owned by Turner Entertainment (Hanna-Barbera, Looney Tunes, Merrie Melodies, Popeye) until the skits and songs became more popular and Brak developed more of a personality and grew popular with fans. The show eventually became entirely skits and songs. Brak's spin-offsIn 2000 two Sonny and Cher-style variety show specials premiered on Cartoon Network, titled Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak. The show featured new animation, and new songs with celebrity guests and fellow Space Ghost villain Zorak. However, the specials were met with mixed reviews from fans. In the early hours of December 21, 2000, a new sitcom parody cartoon premiered, titled "Leave It to Brak", which was actually the pilot episode for the future Adult Swim show The Brak Show, which premiered on Adult Swim in 2001 and ran for three seasons. Acting
Other notesHe left Atlanta briefly, moving to New Jersey for a year, and joining Boomerang (an asset of the Turner Broadcasting System) in its programming department. References1. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/artist/1200129-Andy-Merrill|title=Andy Merrill|website=Discogs|language=en|access-date=2018-03-07}} External links
7 : 1966 births|Living people|Asbury University alumni|American male video game actors|American male voice actors|Male actors from Columbus, Ohio|People from Newark, Ohio |
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