Bob Peterson

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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 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[1]

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.

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