Terry McGovern (actor)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

(Redirected from Terrence McGovern)
Jump to: navigation, search
Terence "Terry" McGovern
Terence "Terry" McGovern

Terence "Terry" McGovern was born May 11, 1942, and is an American film actor, television broadcaster, radio personality, voice-over specialist, and acting instructor. He was born the son of Roger McGovern, an actor and advertising copywriter. McGovern and his wife Molly have two sons, Brendan and Anthony, and they live in Marin, California. Although McGovern was born in Berkeley, California, he grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Contents

Terry McGovern was schooled at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh with a double major in journalism and English, and later studied acting with the dynamic Stella Adler and Milton Katselas. McGovern worked at KDKA radio and television in Pittsburgh from 1965 to 1969, leaving for KSFO in San Francisco during the summer of 1969. At age 30, McGovern traveled to Los Angeles, California, to further pursue his entry into acting. He started his career in films with the legendary George Lucas in Lucas’ inaugural film, THX 1138. Lucas and McGovern continued their work together in the 1970s classics American Graffiti and Star Wars. McGovern played the role of the young high school teacher Mr. Bill Wolfe in American Graffiti, and in Star Wars he provided voice-overs for various personalities of the Empire. In 1992, he appeared in Mrs. Doubtfire, in which he fired Robin Williams during the opening scene.

McGovern acted as Jim Coyle in the CBS series Charlie and Company and has helped to create hundreds of television and radio commercials. McGovern starred in Walt Disney’s animated series Ducktales and Darkwing Duck as the characters Launchpad McQuack and Babyface Beagle. On theatrical stages, McGovern has had roles ranging from musical comedies to Shakespeare.

Since 1999, McGovern has voiced "Dan Stevens", fictional play-by-play announcer, for the NFL 2K series of sports video games, alongside voice actor Jay Styne (as "Peter O' Keefe"). Both have provided their voices for all seven games in the series, the last being the unlicensed All-Pro Football 2K8. Critics have praised McGovern and Styne's commentary as a great alternative to sports video games featuring real commentary teams[1].

Currently working with Voice One, McGovern is an instructor of commercial and character voice and scene and monologue acting, and he contributes to the College of Marin with his expertise. He also served as a teacher of script writing and the history of broadcast announcing for the University of San Francisco. His primary concern as a teacher is being the artistic director of The Marin Actors’ Workshop, which he founded. McGovern has stated many times that out of his many, diverse jobs his favorite is teaching others the skills of acting.



  • Having shown up late for a recording session, McGovern offered the following excuse for his tardiness: "I had an accident. I ran over my pet wookey." He said this when in reality he was at an Army Reserve meeting and drove to the recording session with Bill Wookey. George Lucas liked the name and subsequently named an entire Star Wars race after McGovern’s best friend.
  • McGovern published a poetry booklet entitled [[Rod McCroon's Look at the Loud, which is a parody of Listen to the Warm by Rod McKuen. The poetry was presented to his KSFO audience.

  1. ^ [GameSpot: The History of Football Games: The evolution of 2K]

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_McGovern_%28actor%29"
Advanced Search
Included Web Search Engines


Safe Search

close

Top Matching Results

Occasionally Search.com will highlight specialized results that are based on the context of your query. Examples of specialized results include specific links to news, images, or video.

Top Matching Results may highlight information from other Search.com pages, content from the CNET Network of sites, or third party content. The listings are based purely on relevance. Search.com does not receive payment for listings in this section but our partners that provide this data may get paid for listing these products.

Sponsored Links

This section contains paid listings which have been purchased by companies that want to have their sites appear for specific search terms and related content. These listings are administered, sorted and maintained by a third party and are not endorsed by Search.com.

Search Results

Search.com sends your search query to several search engines at one time and integrates the results into one list which has been sorted by relevance using Search.com's proprietary algorithm. You can customize the list of search engines included in your metasearch from the preferences.

The search engines that are used in your metasearch may allow companies to pay to have their Web sites included within the results. To view the Paid Inclusion policy for a specific search engine, please visit their Web site. Search.com does not accept payment or share revenue with any search engine partner for listings in this section.