Bob Peterson

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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

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2026
Hoppers
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2025
Monsters Funday Football
Movie Roz (Voice)
2025
Elio
Movie Universal Users Manual (voice)
2024
LEGO Pixar: BrickToons
TV show Mr. Ray (voice)
2023
Carl's Date
Movie Dug / Alpha (voice)
2021
Dug Days
TV show Dug (voice)
2021
Monsters at Work
TV show Roze (voice)
2020
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2020
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Cheese?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Pet?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Leader?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Art?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Friend?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)

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2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money?
Movie Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question
TV show Narrator (voice)
2017
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool
Movie Dr. Damage (voice)
2017
Cars 3
Movie Chick Hicks (voice)
2016
Marine Life Interviews
Movie Writer
2016
Finding Dory
Movie Mr. Ray (voice)
2015
The Good Dinosaur
Movie Story
2015
Inside Out
Movie Additional Dialogue
2013
Monsters University
Movie Roz (voice)
2010
Toy Story 3
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2009
Tracy
Movie Terry Cane
2009
Dug's Special Mission
Movie Dug / Alpha (voice)
2009
George and A.J.
Movie Dug (voice)
2009
Up
Movie Dug / Alpha (voice)
2008
Tokyo Mater
Movie Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2008
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2008
El Materdor
Movie Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2008
Mater the Greater
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2008
Rescue Squad Mater
Movie Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2007
The Pixar Story
Movie Mr. Ray / Dolphins / Seagulls (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Ratatouille
Movie Additional Writing
2006
Cars
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2004
The Incredibles
Movie Additional Voices (voice)
2003
Exploring the Reef
Movie Writer