Bob Peterson

Known for: Acting
Born: January 18, 1961 (age 65)
Birthplace: 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.

Known For

Inside Out

Finding Nemo

Toy Story

Monsters, Inc.

The Incredibles

Ratatouille

Toy Story 3

Cars

Finding Dory

Tangled

Monsters University

Filmography

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Cars: Lightning Racers

TV · as Chick Hicks (voice) · 1 ep

2026

Hoppers

Movie · as Additional Voices (voice)

2025

Elio

Movie · as Universal Users Manual (voice)

2025

Monsters Funday Football

Movie · as Roz (Voice)

2024

LEGO Pixar: BrickToons

TV · as Mr. Ray (voice) · 1 ep

2023

Carl's Date

Movie · as Dug / Alpha (voice)

2021

Monsters at Work

TV · as Roz / Roze (voice), Roz / Bob Peterson (voice), Roze / Bob Peterson (voice), Roz (voice) · 1 ep

2021

Dug Days

TV · as Dug (voice) · 5 eps

2020