
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.
36
Films
9
TV Shows
14
Crew Credits
Known For
45 Credits
Elio
as Universal Users Manual (voice)
2025

Monsters, Inc.
as Roz (voice)
2001

Toy Story 3
as Additional Voices (voice)
2010

Up
as Dug / Alpha (voice)
2009

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

Cars 3
as Chick Hicks (voice)
2017

Cars 3
as Additional Voices (voice)
2017

The Oscars
as Dug (voice)
1953

The Incredibles
as Additional Voices (voice)
2004

Monsters at Work
as Roz / Roze (voice)
2021

Monsters at Work
as Roze (voice)
2021

Monsters at Work
as Roz / Bob Peterson (voice)
2021
Behind the Camera
14 Credits
Carl's Date
Director, Writer
2023

Dug Days
Writer, Director
2021

Marine Life Interviews
Writer
2016

Exploring the Reef
Writer
2003

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Computer?
Director, Writer
2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Cheese?
Director, Writer
2020

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Leader?
Writer, Director
2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Reading?
Director, Writer
2020

Forky Asks a Question: What Is a Friend?
Director, Writer
2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Money?
Director, Writer
2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Art?
Director, Writer
2019

Forky Asks a Question: What Is Love?
Director, Writer
2019