A couple days later, an Army chaplain and another man came to see me, unannounced. When it came back that it was the west wing that had been struck, I knew it was his section. "But I'd been to his second-floor office, and I remembered where it was. "I was looking for any ray of hope," she said.
So he went to his office," his mother said.Īfter a television station reported that American Airlines Flight 77 had plunged into the Pentagon, she did not move from her chair in front of the screen for hours. "He was a very responsible, hard-working man. "He didn't want to miss some important meetings that had been planned," said his mother, who lives with her husband, Lee, in Edmonds, Wash., the town where Larry Strickland grew up with his younger sister, Donna Marie. "It would've been fun for him."īut Strickland, a senior enlisted adviser to the Army's deputy chief of staff of personnel, decided to work that day. "He'd been talking a lot about the siding, and I think that's probably what he would have been doing if he'd stayed home," said his mother, Olga. That siding, for example, had become a priority. An accomplished handyman who built his own deck, he would be able to indulge his prodigious appetite for building and repairing things. He looked forward to plunging into his hobbies - fishing, hiking, gourmet cooking and needlepoint, among others - and, after a suitable break, accepting a job in private industry. He had told people that retirement would afford him more time than ever with his wife, Debra, a command sergeant major at Fort Belvoir, their three grown children, Julia, Matthew and Chris, and their grandson, Brendan. The day's possibilities were seemingly a prelude to the rhythms of a new life coming. 11 off to relax and perhaps replace some siding on his home in Woodbridge.
A 30-year Army veteran working out of the Pentagon and a sergeant major less than a month from retirement, he had built up considerable leave time. In addition to video game voiceovers, Martinet has worked as a voice actor in commercials, cartoons and promotions as : America At War - The Human TollĪt 52, Larry Strickland was golden. He would voice Mario several times over the years and the role has become one of Charles Martinet's most famous ones. Over time, Charles Martinet would focus is career on voice acting instead of acting.Ĭharles Martinet's voice acting career debuted in 1992 when he voiced the video game character Mario in 1992 whereby he would play Mario and a motion capture technology would retransmit his facial expressions and voice in real time. He also had a role as a deputy in the television action film Brotherhood of Justice.
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His first credited movie role was for the 1986 drama film Hard Traveling as a district attorney. He then returned to California and joined the Berkeley Repertory Theatre.Ĭharles Martinet began his career as an actor in 1986, doing various minor roles for movies and televisions. Martinet abandoned his law studies and attended the Drama Studio London. However, he changed his career path when he began attending acting classes, supposedly on a friend's suggestion in order to combat his fear of public speaking. Martinet attended the University of California, Berkeley, to study international law. He attended the American School of Paris and graduated in 1974. His family moved to Barcelona, Spain when he was 12 years old, and later to Paris, France. Charles is of French descent and speaks both French and Spanish very fluently.
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