Bob Peterson Movies and Career Information

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. Peterson is a co-director and the writer of Up which is his second Oscar nomination. He also performed the voices of Roz on Monsters, Inc., Mr. Ray on Finding Nemo Dug the dog and Alpha the dog on Up and Dug's Special Mission, and the Janitor on Toy Story 3. In 2012, he was voice of the letter U in a squeaky voice on the Hercules title logo. 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. 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