#138 David Lawrence, XVII, Interview...
The Not Old - Better Show
Paul Vogelzang
5 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2017
⏱️ 20 minutes
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David Lawrence, XVII, Interview...
Your New Career Over 50: Voice Over Talent
We have an amazing show today, and our guest is David Lawrence, XVII. David Harvard Lawrence XVII is a television and film actor, voice talent, network radio host, Internet entrepreneur, podcaster, demo producer, teacher and author, best known for his role as The Puppetmaster on NBC's sci-fi series Heroes. He was also the host of the daily The David Lawrence Show and weekend Online Tonight, both nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and the high-tech lifestyle.
The "XVII" in his name was a way for Lawrence to distinguish himself from previous David Lawrences already registered with SAG. At the time, he was the 17th David Lawrence listed on IMDb, and appended the number to his name upon his own registry.
As you’ll soon tell from our interview, David loves this industry, loves his work and has a passion for all things voice…
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the not-old-better show I'm your host Paul Vogel-Zay. |
| 0:10.0 | We have an amazing show today, one that I know you're just going to love because I loved talking |
| 0:17.1 | to this man. He's a long-time friend, he's well known in the industry. Our guest today of course is David Lawrence the 17th. |
| 0:26.3 | Let me introduce David a little bit and then we'll get into this this really fantastic |
| 0:29.9 | interview that I had with him. David Harvard Lawrence the 17th is an American |
| 0:35.4 | television actor and film actor voice talent network radio host internet |
| 0:40.1 | entrepreneur podcaster demo producer teacher, teacher, and author. |
| 0:44.3 | He's best known for his role as The Puppet Master on NBC's SciFi Series Heroes. |
| 0:50.9 | He was also the host of the Daily David Lawrence Show and Weekend Online Tonight program. |
| 0:58.0 | Both of those were nationally syndicated radio talk shows that revolved around pop culture and high-tech lifestyle, two of his real |
| 1:06.2 | passions. |
| 1:07.2 | Just as a bit of information for you, the 17th, that's X-V-v-I in his name, was a way for David Lawrence to distinguish himself |
| 1:18.4 | from the previous David Lawrence's that were already registered with SAG, the Screen Actors Guild. |
| 1:25.1 | At the time of his own registry, David was the 17th David Lawrence listed on IMDb, and David then appended that number to his own name and the rest |
| 1:37.0 | is history David H Lawrence the 17th as you'll soon tell from our interview |
| 1:41.9 | David loves this industry. |
| 1:43.8 | He loves his work and he has a passion for all things voice. |
| 1:47.2 | I fell in love with radio when I was like in single digits in terms of age. |
| 1:51.8 | I used to lay awake at night and listen to the Indians |
| 1:54.0 | games and I would listen to talk radio and far off stations in New York City and in Windsor, Connecticut, |
| 2:01.2 | the Big 8, CKLW. |
| 2:03.7 | I just fell in love with the whole thing |
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