In the musical, he was portrayed by Christopher Siber. In the videogame adaptation of the film, he was voiced by André Sogliuzzo. in Santa Claus: The Movie, Earl Talbot Blake in Ricochet, Eric Qualen in the 1993 film Cliffhanger, Jean-Claude in Rugrats in Paris: The Movie, Arthur Mitchell in Dexter and Lamar Blackburn in The Accountant. He was voiced by John Lithgow, who also played Burke in Blow Out, Lord John Whorfin in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, B.Z. He is also the first villain Shrek met, as well as the reason he met Donkey and Fiona. He attempts to cut a deal with Shrek by promising to remove the monsters from his swamp if Shrek could bring Fiona to him, as he wanted to marry her. He is very opprobrious, despicable and abhorrent, so he loathes creatures of any kind and sought to relocate the fairytale creatures to Shrek's swamp.

Once he did, he asked if DuLoc, the place where he ruled, was the perfect kingdom, but as he was not a king, DuLoc was not a kingdom, so he tried to marry Princess Fiona to become king.

He is the oppressive ruler of a lordship called DuLoc and he spent the first part capturing fairytale creatures, so that he could find the magic mirror. Lord Maximus Farquaad is the main antagonist of DreamWorks' fifth full-length animated feature film Shrek, the first installment of the Shrek film series and its 2003 3D short Shrek 4-D (also known as The Ghost of Lord Farquaad).

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