Peter Cullen
Peter Cullen
Peter Claver Cullenis a Canadian voice actor. He is best known as the original voice of Optimus Primein the original 1980s Transformers animated series, and most other incarnations of the character, as well, and Eeyore in the Winnie-the-Pooh franchise. He also voiced Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers from season one through some of season two. Starting in 2007, Peter Cullen has reprised his role as Optimus Prime in related Transformers media, starting with the first live-action film...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionVoice Actor
Date of Birth28 July 1941
CityMontreal, Canada
CountryCanada
Peter Cullen quotes about
As a young actor, I would be invited to the CBC radio drama department to do voices for different characters, and I found that I could do quite a few of them. I wasn't a visual presence, and I found it easier to construct a voice from the written page.
The phenomenon of 'Transformers' itself is mind-shaking, you know?
I kind of modeled Optimus Prime's voice out of many people I had known over the years, my family especially.
I always try to make a voice to go with the characteristics - if the guy's a hothead or he's cool, whatever.
I enjoy dramatic narration, of course, because I'm an actor and I started as an actor. But I love things that are a challenge, and I look forward to more work with that in the future. So there's always a sun coming up the following day for me.
Everybody's going to approach a character differently, depending upon what they bring to it on their own intellectual level or their feelings from their heart and soul.
I immerse myself right into my character whether or not I'm relating to people live as an actor on stage or whatever.
My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.
I'm always involved with the Aerospace Program and NASA and Goddard Space Flight Center. And if kids feel so inclined, they can log onto NASA and the Optimus Prime Spinoff Award, which we present every year to some of the brilliant young minds that are taking up into the academics of space, science, technology, math.
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