
Bob Peterson
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 18, 1961
- Birthplace
- Wooster, Ohio, USA
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

Hoppers 2026
as Additional Voices (voice), ADR & Dubbing

Monsters Funday Football 2025
as Roz (Voice)

Elio 2025
as Universal Users Manual (voice), ADR & Dubbing

Carl's Date 2023
as Dug / Alpha (voice), Story Artist, Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading? 2020
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Cheese? 2020
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Pet? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Leader? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Writer, Director

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Time? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Art? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Friend? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money? 2019
as Voice Over Announcer (voice), Director, Writer

Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool 2017
as Dr. Damage (voice)

Cars 3 2017
as Chick Hicks (voice), as Additional Voices (voice), Screenplay

Marine Life Interviews 2016
Writer

Finding Dory 2016
as Mr. Ray (voice)

The Good Dinosaur 2015
Story

Inside Out 2015
Additional Dialogue

Monsters University 2013
as Roz (voice)

Tangled 2010
as Additional Voices (voice)

Toy Story 3 2010
as Additional Voices (voice)

The Princess and the Frog 2009
as Party Arabic (voice) (uncredited)

Tracy 2009
as Terry Cane

George and A.J. 2009
as Dug (voice)

Dug's Special Mission 2009
as Dug / Alpha (voice)

Up 2009
as Dug / Alpha (voice), Screenplay, Story, Co-Director

Monsters vs Aliens 2009
as Additional Voice (voice)

Tokyo Mater 2008
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Cars Toon Mater's Tall Tales 2008
as Additional Voices (voice)

El Materdor 2008
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)

Mater the Greater 2008
as Additional Voices (voice)

Rescue Squad Mater 2008
as Additional Voice Talent (voice)

The Pixar Story 2007
as Mr. Ray / Dolphins / Seagulls (voice) (archive footage)

Ratatouille 2007
Additional Writing

Cars 2006
as Additional Voices (voice)

The Incredibles 2004
as Additional Voices (voice)

Exploring the Reef 2003
Writer

Making 'Nemo' 2003
as Self - Co-Writer

Finding Nemo 2003
as Mr. Ray / Additional Voices (voice), Screenplay

Monsters, Inc. 2001
as Roz (voice), Story Supervisor, Additional Writing, Script Supervisor

Geri's Game 1997
as Geri (voice)

Toy Story 1995
Animation
Credits from TMDB.