Make Larry Kenney Grand Marshall/celebrity guest 2016 Marigold Festival

Larry Kenney is a native Pekinite and has had a long career as a voice actor. His credits include Lion-O on the 1980s ThunderCats, Clarence Thomas, and Karate Kat, a martial arts blackbelt cat featured as part of The Comic Strip. He was also the voice of Bluegrass in SilverHawks. Kenney also did voice work for several breakfast cereal characters, including Count Chocula and Sonny the Cuckoo Bird. In recent years, he has reprised this role for humorous ThunderCats references on the animated series Family Guy, Thundercats animated series (2011) Claudus, Lion-O's and Tygra's Father.

Kenney provided voice-overs for The State, the 1990s sketch comedy cult classic which featured his daughter, Kerri Kenney. He was also the announcer for VH1's Best Week Ever during its run from 2004–2009, and provides introductions for Westwood One's radio coverage of Monday Night Football and various other commercial work. He was the announcer for "102.7 The Beat" in the video game Grand Theft Auto.