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 codirector 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 Dugs 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 Masters 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 Scanlons 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 Pixars 11th film Toy Story 3 which was released on June 18 2010 Description above from the Wikipedia article Bob Peterson animator licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia