Trace Beaulieu
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| Born | November 6, 1958 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Trace Beaulieu (born November 6, 1958) is an American puppeteer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his roles on Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K).[1][2]
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[edit] Mystery Science Theater 3000
For the first eight (1 at KTMA and 7 on Comedy Channel/Central) seasons of MST3K, Beaulieu operated and voiced the Crow T. Robot puppet and played the role of Dr. Clayton Forrester, who was the head mad scientist of Deep 13.[1] At the end of a truncated seventh season, Trace Beaulieu left the series.[3] Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) replaced him as the head mad scientist and Bill Corbett took over the voicing and operation of Crow.[1]
[edit] Work after MST3K
Beaulieu appeared as a semi-regular in Freaks and Geeks as the school's biology teacher, Mr. Lacovara. He also appeared in The West Wing episode "Bad Moon Rising". For the last few years, Beaulieu has been a writer for America's Funniest Home Videos.[2][3][4] In 2002, he was the head writer, producer, and host of the pilot episode of the Animal Planet show People Traps.[2] He has since starred in the 2010 computer game Darkstar: The Interactive Movie as first officer Ross Perryman.[5]
Outside of acting, Beaulieu also wrote the script for the one-shot comic book Here Come the Big People, published by Event Comics. In 2010, Beaulieu completed work on a children's poetry book, Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children,[6] illustrated by Len Peralta.
[edit] Cinematic Titanic
On October 30, 2007, Joel Hodgson announced he was starting a new series — distributed on DVD — with the same "riffing on bad movies" premise as MST3K. Called Cinematic Titanic, it features several former MST3K cast and crew members: Beaulieu, J. Elvis Weinstein, Frank Conniff and Mary Jo Pehl.[7]
As of November 2010, he continues to tour with Cinematic Titanic.
[edit] References
- ^ a b c "The (Nearly) Complete List of Credits", Ward E, The Satellite News.
- ^ a b c "Trace Beaulieu". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0064546/. Retrieved 2008-02-01.
- ^ a b "West Brains: Trace", The Satellite News.
- ^ "Brain Scan: Where Are They Now?", The Satellite News.
- ^ DARKSTAR in Satellite News
- ^ Silly Rhymes for Belligerent Children
- ^ Cinematic Titanic - Homepage of MST3K alumni Joel Hodgson, Frank Conniff, Josh Weinstein, Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl
