Mr. Lawrence

Mr. Lawrence
Lawrence at the San Diego ComicCon, 2009
Born	Douglas Lawrence Osowski January 1, 1969 East Brunswick, New Jersey, U.S.
Occupation	Animator, voice actor, writer, comedian
Years active	1992–present

Douglas Lawrence Osowski (born January 1, 1969), better known as Mr. Lawrence and sometimes credited as Doug Lawrence, is an American voice actor, writer, comedian, and animator, best known for his work as a writer and actor for the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants and Rocko's Modern Life.

Life and career

Lawrence was born in East Brunswick, New Jersey. He is known for his work on the animated TV series SpongeBob SquarePants, on which he has long-running-roles as Sheldon Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Elaine and various other characters including Artist at Sea.

He was the voice of Edward T. Platypus, Nurse Leslie, Dave, and Ping-Pong on Camp Lazlo. Lawrence also performed the voice of Filburt in Rocko's Modern Life and is recently the voice of the Announcer and Manant in The Aquabats! Super Show!. Lawrence is a standup comedian, cartoonist, writer-director, animator and producer on the television series Johnny Talk. He worked on The Ren and Stimpy Show in its second season as a layout assistant. Apart from his voice work he is a writer on SpongeBob SquarePants and worked as a writer on Rocko's Modern Life and The Twisted Whiskers Show. He is currently a writer and story editor on Mighty Magiswords, Cartoon Network's first original online series.

As a comedian, Mr. Lawrence performed in New Jersey and Los Angeles, collaborating with comedian Jeremy Kramer and Boston comedy writer Martin Olson. Jeff "Swampy" Marsh, a storyboard writer for Rocko's Modern Life and co-creator of Phineas and Ferb, described Lawrence as bearing a "unique sense of humor", and that one "would really have to know Doug to understand (or not understand)" his style. Marsh says that the rationale for Lawrence's humor techniques and decisions "remain a mystery to us forever."^[1]

Filmography

Films and television shows

Mr. Lawrence with Tom Kenny (the voice of SpongeBob SquarePants)

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1993–96	Rocko's Modern Life	Filburt Turtle, Additional Voices
1999–present	SpongeBob SquarePants	Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Additional Voices
2000	Hairballs		Short film
2003	Do the Voice	Fictionalized version of Himself
2004	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie	Plankton	Additional Voices
2005–08	Camp Lazlo	Edward, Dave and Ping Pong, Nurse Leslie
2006	Ergo Proxy	Dog Cop #4	Episode: "Shôjo sumairu"
2007	The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy	Alien #2	Episode: "Billy and Mandy Moon the Moon"
2010	The Cartoonstitute	Joey	Episode: "Joey To the World"
2012–14	The Aquabats! Super Show!	Narrator, ManAnt (voice)	Series narrator Episode: "ManAnt!"
2014	Wander Over Yonder	Additional Voices
	Breadwinners	Turtle	Episode: "Beach Day of Horror"
2015	The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water	Plankton/Plank-Ton
	Mighty Magiswords	Additional Voices
	Uncle Grandpa	Philip

Video games

Mr. Lawrence sitting on the SpongeBob SquarePants panel at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con

Year	Title	Role
1993	Awesome Possum... Kicks Dr. Machino's Butt
1996	Nickelodeon 3D Movie Maker	Filburt Turtle
2001	SpongeBob SquarePants: SuperSponge	Plankton
	Nicktoons Racing
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Operation Krabby Patty
2002	SpongeBob SquarePants: Employee of the Month	Plankton Larry the Lobster
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman
2003	Nickelodeon Toon Twister 3D	Plankton
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom	Plankton, Larry the Lobster, Prawn, Fish Announcer
2004	The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: The Video Game	Plankton
2005	Nicktoons Unite
	SpongeBob SquarePants: Lights, Camera, Pants!
2006	SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab
2008	SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis
2009	SpongeBob's Truth or Square
	Borderlands	Additional Voices
2011	Nicktoons MLB	Larry the Lobster
2013	SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge	Plankton
2015	SpongeBob HeroPants	Plankton/Plank-Ton

Mr. Lawrence at the 2009 San Diego Comic-Con

Writer

• Rocko's Modern Life (1993–96)
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995–97)
• SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–2002; 2009–present)
• Hairballs (2000)
• Do the Voice (2003)
• Johnnie Talk (2003)
• SpongeBob's Truth or Square (2009)
• The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) – Additional screenplay material
• The Twisted Whiskers Show (2010)
• Lucky Lady (2014)
• Mighty Magiswords (2015–present)

Director

• Looks Can Kill (1994)
• Rocko's Modern Life (1993–1996) – Sugar-Frosted Frights/Ed Is Dead: A Thriller! (1995) – Fish-N-Chumps/Camera Shy (1995) – Nothing to Sneeze At/Old Fogey Froggy (1995) – Speaking Terms/Tooth and Nail (1995)
• The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat (1995–97)
• General Chaos: Uncensored Animation (1998)
• Hairballs (2000)
• The Haunted World of El Superbeasto (2009) – Assistant director
• "Lucky Lady" (2014)

Other work

• The Food Album (1993) – album art

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Result
1995	CableACE Award	Best Animated Programming Special or Series	Won
2012	Primetime Emmy Award	Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program	Nominated

References

1. "Dan Abrams' interview with Jeff "Swampy" Marsh," The Rocko's Modern Life FAQ

External links

• Mr. Lawrence at the Internet Movie Database