Trace Beaulieu

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Trace Beaulieu (born November 6, 1958) is a puppeteer, writer, and actor. He is best known for his roles on "Mystery Science Theater 3000" ("MST3K"). [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listcred.html "The (Nearly) Complete List of Credits"] , Ward E, "The Satellite News".] cite web
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"Mystery Science Theater 3000"

For the first seven 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. [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/listcred.html "The (Nearly) Complete List of Credits"] , Ward E, "The Satellite News".] At the end of a truncated seventh season, Trace Beaulieu left the series. [http://www.mst3k.com/mstfaq/wbrains.html#TRACE "West Brains: Trace"] , "The Satellite News".] Pearl Forrester (Mary Jo Pehl) replaced him as the head mad scientist and Bill Corbett took over the voicing and operation of Crow.

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". [http://www.mst3k.com/scan.html "Brain Scan: Where Are They Now?"] , "The Satellite News".] In 2002, he was the head writer, producer, and host of the pilot episode of the Animal Planet show "People Traps".

Outside of acting, Beaulieu also wrote the script for the one-shot comic book "Here Come the Big People", published by Event Comics.

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. [ [http://www.cinematictitanic.com/ Cinematic Titanic - Homepage of MST3K alumni Joel Hodgson, Frank Conniff, Josh Weinstein, Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl ] ]

References

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* [http://www.cinematictitanic.com Official Cinematic Titanic website]