Bob Peterson

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

Birth Location Wooster, Ohio, USA
Born 1961-01-18

Movies

Carl's Date as Dug / Alpha (voice)
2023
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2020
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Cheese? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2020
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Pet? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Leader? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Art? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Friend? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money? as Voice Over Announcer (voice)
2019
Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool as Dr. Damage (voice)
2017
Cars 3 as Chick Hicks (voice)
2017
Finding Dory as Mr. Ray (voice)
2016
Monsters University as Roz (voice)
2013
Toy Story 3 as Additional Voices (voice)
2010
George and A.J. as Dug (voice)
2009
Dug's Special Mission as Dug / Alpha (voice)
2009
Up as Dug / Alpha (voice)
2009
Tokyo Mater as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2008
El Materdor as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2008
Mater the Greater as Additional Voices (voice)
2008
Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales as Additional Voices
2008
Rescue Squad Mater as Additional Voice Talent (voice)
2008
The Pixar Story as Mr. Ray / Dolphins / Seagulls (voice) (archive footage)
2007
Cars as Additional Voices (voice)
2006
The Incredibles as Additional Voices (voice)
2004
Making 'Nemo' as Self - Co-Writer
2003
Finding Nemo as Mr. Ray / Additional Voices (voice)
2003
Monsters, Inc. as Roz (voice)
2001
Geri's Game as Geri (voice)
1997

Movies

Carl's Date Story Artist
2023
Carl's Date Writer
2023
Carl's Date Director
2023
Cars 3 Screenplay
2017
Finding Dory Story
2016
2015
Inside Out Additional Dialogue
2015
Up Story
2009
Up Screenplay
2009
Up Co-Director
2009
2003
Finding Nemo Screenplay
2003
Monsters, Inc. Story Supervisor
2001
Monsters, Inc. Script Supervisor
2001
Monsters, Inc. Additional Writing
2001
Toy Story Animation
1995