Bob Peterson

Bob Peterson

  • Birthday: 1961-01-18
  • Place of birth: Wooster, Ohio, USA

Biography

Robert "Bob" Peterson (born January 1961) is an American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor, who has worked for Pixar since 1994. His first job was working as a layout artist and animator on Toy Story. He was nominated for an Oscar for his screenplay for Finding Nemo. Petersonis a co-director and the writer of Up, which gained him his second Oscar nomination. He also performed the voices of Roz in Monsters, Inc., Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo, Dug the dog and Alpha the dog in Up and in Dug's Special Mission, and the Janitor in Toy Story 3. Peterson was born in Wooster, Ohio, his family moved to Dover, Ohio, where he graduated from Dover High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Ohio Northern University, and a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1986. While attending Purdue, he wrote and illustrated the comic strip Loco Motives for the Purdue Exponent. Prior to coming to Pixar, Peterson worked at Wavefront Technologies and Rezn8 Productions. In 2008, Peterson played the part of Terry Cane, a puppeteer in Dan Scanlon's first feature film Tracy. He also played additional voices in Tokyo Mater in 2008, and the voice of Mr. Ray for the Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage ride at Disneyland Park in 2007. His most recent job at Pixar was voicing the Janitor at Sunnyside Daycare Center in Pixar's 11th film, Toy Story 3, which was released on June 18, 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Peterson (animator), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

Dug's Special Mission

2009

As Dug / Alpha (voice)

Geri's Game

1997

As Geri (voice)

Carl's Date

2023

As Dug / Alpha (voice)

George and A.J.

2009

As Dug (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Cheese?

2020

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Friend?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Pet?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Leader?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Art?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Up

2009

As Dug / Alpha (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Mater the Greater

2008

As Additional Voices (voice)

Making 'Nemo'

2003

As Self - Co-Writer

Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool

2017

As Dr. Damage (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading?

2020

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Rescue Squad Mater

2008

As Additional Voice Talent (voice)

El Materdor

2008

As Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Monsters, Inc.

2001

As Roz (voice)

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?

2019

As Voice Over Announcer (voice)

Finding Nemo

2003

As Mr. Ray / Additional Voices (voice)

Finding Dory

2016

As Mr. Ray (voice)

Tokyo Mater

2008

As Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Cars 3

2017

As Chick Hicks (voice)

Monsters University

2013

As Roz (voice)

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales

2008

As Additional Voices

The Incredibles

2004

As Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 3

2010

As Additional Voices (voice)

Cars

2006

As Additional Voices (voice)

The Pixar Story

2007

As Mr. Ray / Dolphins / Seagulls (voice) (archive footage)

Production

Inside Out

2015

As Additional Dialogue

Monsters, Inc.

2001

As Additional Writing

Up

2009

As Co-Director

Monsters, Inc.

2001

As Script Supervisor

Carl's Date

2023

As Director

Toy Story

1995

As Animation

Finding Nemo

2003

As Screenplay

Up

2009

As Screenplay

The Good Dinosaur

2015

As Story

Up

2009

As Story

Finding Dory

2016

As Story

Marine Life Interviews

2017

As Writer

Cars 3

2017

As Screenplay

Carl's Date

2023

As Writer

Monsters, Inc.

2001

As Story Supervisor

Exploring the Reef

2003

As Writer

Carl's Date

2023

As Story Artist

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