Peter Cullen
Born	Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Years active	1962 to present

Peter Cullen, born in Montreal, Canada is a voice actor who is best known for providing the voices for Optimus Prime and Ironhide, in the original Transformers series and the narrator in both American Voltron series. In addition, he has played Coran and King Alfor in the Lion Voltron series, the transforming spaceship/robot Ramrod in the 80s anime series "Saber Rider And The Star Sheriffs", Commander James Hawkins in the Vehicle Voltron series, Eeyore in Winnie-the-Pooh, KARR in Knight Rider, Antor and Bomba, and Gunner, in Dino-Riders, and Mantus in The Pirates of Dark Water. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... , Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area  Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595... Nickname: Motto: Concordia Salus (well-being through harmony) Coordinates: , Country Province Founded 1642 Established 1832 Government  - Mayor Gérald Tremblay Area [1][2][3]  - City 365. ... A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ... Ironhide is the name of five different characters in the Transformers universes. ... This is a partner page to Transformers Universes, listing the various comic and television series and specials that the Transformer toyline has spawned since its creation in 1984. ... Original run 10 September 1984 – 18 November 1985 No. ... Hundred Beast King GoLion ) is a Japanese Super robot anime television series. ... Kikou Kantai Dairugger XV ) was an anime series aired in Japan and Hong Kong from 1982 to 1983. ... The original stuffed toys owned by Christopher Robin Milne and featured in the Winnie-the-Pooh stories. ... Winnie the Pooh Winnie-the-Pooh is a fictional bear created by A. A. Milne. ... KARR from the episode KARR (the Knight Automated Roving Robot), is a fictional character and a villain from the cult television series Knight Rider. ... For the American media company, see Knight Ridder. ... Antor is the fourth in command of the Rulon empire in the TV cartoon Dino-riders, after Krulos, Rasp and Hammerhead. ... Dino-Riders was a cartoon television series that aired in the late 1980s, primarily as a promotion to launch a new Tyco toy line. ... The Pirates of Dark Water is a fantasy animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera and Turner Entertainment in the early 1990s. ...

There is no solid source for the year of Cullen's birth. An unverifiable source at NNDB puts it at 1956, but that would have made him 7 when he graduated the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963. National Theatre School of Canada, established in Montreal in 1960. ...

Voice Work

In the 1980s and the 1990s, Cullen appeared on a number of television shows, including My Little Pony, Filmation's Ghostbusters, The Smurfs, Dungeons & Dragons as Venger, The Snorks, The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo, Tom and Jerry Kids Show, DuckTales, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,The Challenge of the GoBots, Rude Dog and the Dweebs as Herman, Rainbow Brite as Murky Dismal, The Biskitts as Scratch, Robotix, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (as the original voice for Monterey Jack), Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs, The Little Engine That Could (film) as Pete, the powerful freight engine, Voltron: Defender of the Universe, and The Jetsons. He also had a voice part in Gremlins as a gremlin and Knight Rider as KARR. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For the band, see 1990s (band). ... Fizzy and Galaxy, the unicorns from the My Little Pony animated series My Little Pony is a product line of colorful toy ponies marketed primarily to young girls and produced by the toy manufacturer Hasbro. ... Filmations Ghostbusters was an animated television series created by Filmation and launched following the success of the Columbia Pictures live-action Ghostbusters movie. ... The Smurfs (originally Les Schtroumpfs in French) are a fictional group of small sky blue creatures who live somewhere in the forests of medieval Europe. ... Dungeons & Dragons is an American animated television series, that was a co-production of Marvel Productions and TSR, produced in the United States during the 1980s, but animated in Japan by Toei Animation. ... The Snorks was a comic book created by Belgian Freddy Monnickendam in 1974. ... The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo was the seventh incarnation of the long-running Hanna-Barbera Saturday morning cartoon Scooby-Doo. ... Tom & Jerry Kids Show, also known as Tom & Jerry Kids is an American animated television series, produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and Turner Entertainment, featuring the popular cat-and-mouse pair as children. ... This article is on the animated series. ... The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. ... Challenge of the GoBots (also known as Mighty Machine Men) is an American animated series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, based on the toy-line released from Tonka. ... Rude Dog was a cartoon dog developed by Sun Sportswear in the 1980s as part of a line of surfing- and skateboarding-related clothing. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... The Biskitts is an American animated cartoon series produced by Hanna-Barbera from 1983-1984. ... .:ROBOTIX:. is an international level robotics competition organised by the students of IIT Kharagpur. ... Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers was an American animated television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and created by Tad Stones and Alan Zaslove. ... Monterey Jack Monterey Jack is one of the central characters in the animated television series Chip n Dale Rescue Rangers. ... Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs was a 1980s animated space western following a similar theme of Galaxy Rangers and Bravestarr. ... The Little Engine that Could is a 1991 film produced at the Dave Edwards Studio in Cardiff, Wales. ... The Jetsons was a prime-time animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, and aired on Sunday nights on ABC from September 23, 1962 to March 3, 1963. ... For other uses, see Gremlin (disambiguation). ... For the American media company, see Knight Ridder. ...

Among many other television shows and movies, he has also lent his basso voice to many movie trailers and television commercials, including announcing for Toonami on the Cartoon Network. Cullen spent some of his early professional years in Montreal as a radio announcer/DJ on CKGM; and as a character in a then-popular local television kids show. He acted the role of a French-Canadian astronaut, along with writer and his partner on the show, Ted Ziegler. Both Ziegler and Cullen were spotted in the credits and doing small cameo walk-ons in various comedic roles on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, as well as other network comedies of the era. A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... “Moving picture” redirects here. ... A basso (or bass) is a male singer who sings in the lowest vocal range of the human voice. ... Theatrical trailers are 2-3 minute advertisements for movies that play in cinemas before another movie. ... The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ... For Toonami, the television channel in the United Kingdom, see Toonami (UK). ... For Cartoon Network outside of the United States, see Cartoon Network around the world. ... CKGM is an English language Canadian radio station located in Montreal, Quebec. ... The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour was a variety show which ran on CBS from August 1971 until May 1974. ...

He also voiced Nintendo's mascot Mario in the Donkey Kong segments on Saturday Supercade, making him the first person to ever provide a voice for the character. Nintendo Company, Limited (任天堂 or ニンテンドー Nintendō; NASDAQ: NTDOY, TYO: 7974 usually referred to as simply Nintendo, or Big N ) is a multinational corporation founded on September 23, 1889[1] in Kyoto, Japan by Fusajiro Yamauchi to produce handmade hanafuda cards. ... Mario ) is a video game character created by Japanese game designer Shigeru Miyamoto and the official mascot of Nintendo. ... Donkey Kong ) is an arcade game released by Nintendo in 1981. ... Saturday Supercade was an animated television series produced for Saturday mornings by Ruby-Spears Productions. ...

Cullen has also recently done voicework on drum and bass DJ Dieselboy's last two studio mix albums, Project Human, and The Dungeon Master's Guide. He also does voice work for Blizzard Entertainment, and provided narration for the Star Wars fan film IMPS The Relentless. Drum and bass (commonly abbreviated to d&b, DnB, dnb,deenbee, drum n bass and drum & bass) is a type of electronic dance music also known as jungle. ... Dieselboy is the stage name of Damian Higgins, an American drum and bass DJ and producer. ... This article needs additional references or sources for verification. ... I.M.P.S.: The Relentless is a fan film that made its debut on the internet in 2005, created by fans of the Star Wars franchise. ...

Cullen reprised the role of Optimus Prime in the 2007 Transformers movie, and has signed on for its sequel. This article or section contains a plot summary that is overly long or excessively detailed. ... For the 1986 animated film, see The Transformers: The Movie. ...

Personal Life

Cullen is a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada, which graduated in 1963. National Theatre School of Canada, established in Montreal in 1960. ...

He has three children: Clay, Claire, and Pilar E. Cullen; and one grandchild.^[1]

He has stated that of all the voices he has done, Optimus Prime is his favorite. In interviews, he has said that he had no idea of Optimus Prime's popularity until the character's death in the 1986 animated film, as the studio had never given him fan letters from children addressed to Optimus Prime.

External links

• Peter Cullen at the Voice Chasers Database
• Peter Cullen at the Internet Movie Database
• Peter Cullen on Knight Rider Online

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