Bob Peterson (filmmaker)

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Bob Peterson
Birth name	Robert Peterson
Born	(1961-01-18) January 18, 1961
Birth place	Wooster, Ohio, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Animator, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor, voice actor
Years active	1994–present
Employer(s)	Pixar Animation Studios (1994-present)

Robert Peterson is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard supervisor and voice actor who works at Pixar. He was hired at Pixar by Roger Gould in 1994 as an animator for commercials, before subsequently becoming an animator on Toy Story (1995). He was the co-director for Up (2009), in which he also voiced the characters Dug and Alpha. He was a co-writer on Finding Nemo (2003) and Cars 3 (2017).

Career

Peterson has also voiced characters for Pixar films such as Geri in the short Geri's Game (1997), Roz in Monsters, Inc. (2001) and Monsters University (2013), Mr. Ray in Finding Nemo (2003) and Finding Dory (2016), and Dug and Alpha in Up. His most recent vocal work was Dr. Damage in the Cars short film Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool (2017).

He conceived Pixar's The Good Dinosaur (2015) and directed the film until August 2013, when it was announced that he had been dismissed from the project due to story problems. Peterson remains at Pixar, where he is developing another project.

In August 2015, Peterson voiced a dog named Derby for an E:60 profile on ESPN that chronicled the Trenton Thunder's minor league baseball team's tradition of using bat dogs.

Filmography

Year	Title	Co-director	Writer	Animator	Storyboard artist	Actor	Role	Notes
1995	Toy Story			Yes	Yes
1997	Geri's Game					Yes	Geri	Short film
1998	A Bug's Life		Yes		Yes
1999	Toy Story 2		Yes		Yes
2001	Monsters, Inc.				Yes	Yes	Roz
2003	Finding Nemo		Yes			Yes	Mr. Ray, Additional voices	Credits
	Exploring the Reef		Yes					Documentary film
2004	The Incredibles					Yes	Additional voices
2006	Cars					Yes
2007	Ratatouille				Yes
2009	Up	Yes	Yes		Yes	Yes	Dug Alpha
	Dug's Special Mission		Yes			Yes
	George & A.J.					Yes	Dug	Short film, special thanks
2010	Toy Story 3					Yes	Mr. Tony (janitor)
2013	Monsters University					Yes	Roz
2015	Inside Out		Yes					Additional screenplay material (with Bill Hader and Amy Poehler)
	The Good Dinosaur		Yes					original concept and development
2016	Finding Dory		Yes			Yes	Mr. Ray	Additional screenplay material / Additional Voices
2017	Cars 3		Yes			Yes	Chick Hicks	Screenplay / Taking over role from Michael Keaton
	Miss Fritter’s Racing Skoool					Yes	Dr. Damage	Short film
	Coco							Story Consultant
2019	Purl							Kristen Lester's Story Trust
2020	Monsters at Work					Yes	Roz, Roze	Television Series

External links

• Bob Peterson on IMDb
• Bob Peterson at the TCM Movie Database

Template:Annie Award for Writing in a Feature Production 1996–2010

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1998–2000	A Bug's Life – John Lasseter and Andrew Stanton / The Prince of Egypt – Simon Wells, Brenda Chapman, and Steve Hickner (1998) • Toy Story 2 – John Lasseter, Lee Unkrich, and Ash Brannon (1999) • Chicken Run – Peter Lord and Nick Park (2000)
2001–2010	Shrek – Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson (2001) • Spirited Away – Hayao Miyazaki (2002) • Finding Nemo – Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (2003) • The Incredibles – Brad Bird (2004) • Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit – Nick Park and Steve Box (2005) • Cars – John Lasseter and Joe Ranft (2006) • Ratatouille – Brad Bird and Jan Pinkava (2007) • WALL-E – Andrew Stanton (2008) • Up – Pete Docter and Bob Peterson (2009) • Toy Story 3 – Lee Unkrich (2010)
2011–present	Rango – Gore Verbinski (2011) • Wreck-It Ralph – Rich Moore (2012) • Frozen – Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee (2013) • The Lego Movie – Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (2014) • Inside Out – Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen (2015) • Zootopia – Byron Howard and Rich Moore (2016) • Coco – Lee Unkrich (2017) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse – Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey and Rodney Rothman (2018) • Toy Story 4 - Josh Cooley (2019)