Talk:Peter Cullen

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Contents 1 G.I. Joe 2 Diselboy albums 3 American? 4 Picture 5 Age or date of birth? 6 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? 7 Voice Work 8 imdb 9 Blizzard

[edit] G.I. Joe

I don't see it mentioned but Cullen was also the voice of Zandar. The character didn't get all that much dialogue outside of "Arise, Serpentor, Arise!" and "Computer Complications" however. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 4.154.105.234 (talk) 05:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Diselboy albums

It doesn't sound like Peter Cullen did the voice for the intro to ProjectHUMAN. It sounds more like Don LaFontaine to me. The intro for The Dungeonmaster's Guide definitely sounds like Cullen, though. I'll try to find something official on this. Edit: I emailed Dieselboy and he told me I was right. I'll correct this on the page. If anyone doubts me I can paste the email here. TomServo1 (talk) 19:13, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] American?

Does anyone know for sure that he is American, as categorized? Graduating from the National Theatre School of Canada suggests otherwise. -- Steven Fisher 16:41, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Depends on how you define American. America, does pretty much cover the Western Hemisphere (other than some minor things called oceans). Also, why is this in the Ninja Turtles category? I see nothing about Turtles here. Dawhitfield 22:00, 13 August 2006 (UTC)

According to this interview here, I believe he may be Canadian:

http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=62478

Djseifer 19:16, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

American is a nationality which does NOT include Canada. I am Canadian, not American. Get over it. NorthernThunder 10:01, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

According to an interview given in 2005 and included on the newly remastered Transformers the Movie DVD, Cullen's parents are from New York and Boston but he was born and raised in Canada. AulaTPN 22:10, 9 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Picture

Optimus Prime is cool and all, but surely someone has a picture of Mr. Cullen himself? --Andrusi 21:53, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Much better. --Andrusi 23:45, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Uhh...I don't know what happened, but apparenly this section was made two years ago, and by that time someone removed the picture of Peter Cullen. Once again, if he is this notable of a person, he should have a picture on this article to match. 24.15.53.225 03:21, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

It was probably removed due to copyright restrictions. Since Cullen is a living person, any pictures that are put in the article must be free. Unfortunately, free images of a guy who's apparently reclusive enough that his birth date isn't even known for sure are hard to come by. I've found a few copyrighted pictures of him on Flickr (setting your pictures to be fully copyrighted is default there), so it could be possible to ask the owners of those pictures if they'd be willing to allow it to be used here on Wikipedia. A picture would definitely be nice, though. --clpo13 06:11, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Age or date of birth?

A few sources I've come across (such as the NNDB) put Peter Cullen's birth year as 1956, but that doesn't make much sense, considering the article says he graduated from the National Theatre School of Canada in 1963 (which is verified here, when he was apparently 9. An anonymous IP has been making unsourced edits saying he was born in 1940, but I can't find this information anywhere, even though it makes more sense. Heck, I can't even find his age to be sure. Does anyone know how old this guy is or when he was born? --clpo13 18:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, I was sure his birth year was way before 1956 also. It appears that the botched information may have come from IMDB, which says he was born in 1956. Askmen also quotes the same figure. I'd be very surprised to see a 28 year old (his age in 1984) pull off Optimus Prime's voice. It's way too basso. I definitely read something like 1940, a few months ago. I think that the 1956 figure may have been propagated from a single source to the point that now that's all you can find. Look on the edit history for the main page. Someone even said "I concede that a 1956 birth date doesn't make much sense, but the sources do point to 1956, not 1940" and reverted a change back to 1956. I mean, we KNOW that 1956 doesn't make sense, there is a chance that 1940 is true, so why go from stating something unverifiable to stating something definitely incorrect? Holymolytree2 13:39, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

That edit was actually by me. The thing is that Wikipedia is all about verifiable information. Yes, 1940 seems like a better date, but it's not verifiable. All apparent evidence points to 1956, so until something can be found that says otherwise and can be cited in the article, it's got to stay 1956. That's why I was asking if anyone had any proof for a 1940 birthdate, since I can't find any. I mean, the man did the voice of Optimus Prime. Surely someone knows when he was born. --clpo13 18:04, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

It does seem suprising to me how a man could choose to be so reculsive of his personal information that here we are, sitting on one of the biggest encylopedias with the most participants in the world, and we can't even figure out his birth date...oh well. He did the voice of optimus prime 40 or so years ago. With a 1956 birthdate, that would mean he was, like, 12 when he did it. I hardly believe that. Y'know, I would rather put in a birthdate that we cannot truly verify but is close to the date we have verified, AND on top of that it makes a whole lot more sense. I mean, leaving it at 1956 will confuse the heck out of anyone who reads it and knows that he did the voice of Optimus so long ago. At least then we could make a bit of sense if we called it 1940 (which isn't drastically far from 1956) because at least then he would be about 30 more or less when he first did the voicings. I mean, we could even say "estimated 1940" if we so desire...it still makes a whole lot more sense than saying its 1956...

It does make sense. I'll put in c. 1940 as the birth date and a footnote about it. It's actually reasonable to assume that all the sources giving 1956 got it from a flawed original source. I just wish we had a solid reference for this. --clpo13_(talk) 05:38, 13 August 2007 (UTC)

Gah! IMDB says he was born in 1944. Other sites say 1956. But 1940 is a better estimate. Someone needs to track him down and get a straight answer out of him... --clpo13_(talk) 08:10, 17 August 2007 (UTC)

Given no source for a reasonable birthday, the article should contain no birthday. I've removed the speculation, and added some text about 1956 being wrong despite being verifiable. --Steven Fisher 06:34, 30 August 2007 (UTC)

Note that the Finnish edition has his birthdate at December 1, 1944. However, this is the only source for an exact date I've yet found. I put a query for references on the discussion page. --Anshelm '77 12:48, 6 September 2007 (UTC)

Fi.wikipedia gave this as the source, but apparently registration is required. --Anshelm '77 (talk) 16:25, 17 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles?

Is there a reference for the TMNT claim? His IMDb page does not refer to TMNT as far as I can see.

IIRC, he was only on one episode. Hill of Beans 16:39, 15 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Voice Work

In the first two paragraphs or so of the Voice Work section, it is hard to decipher what Peter Cullen has done and what he is still doing. Mabye we should separate that, if we can find the information? Later in the paragraph it says that recently he voiced Optimus Prime in the 2007 movie, but the way the text is phrased it suggests that that is the only thing he has done recently out of all the things mentioned in the first two paragraphs. If someone could rephrase the first two paragraphs to be a little more informative (and that is, if we have the information required), that would be helpful. 24.15.53.225 03:24, 6 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] imdb

We didn't trust imdb's birthdate before, why are we trusting it now? --Steven Fisher 17:14, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Blizzard

I stuck a fact tag on his voice work for Blizzard a few months ago. Since then someone put a citation there that leads to his actors page bio on eBay. I didn't even realize eBay did bios! Anyway, the bottom of his eBay bio says that their source was Wikipedia. So... I've gone ahead and removed that tag and put another fact tag on there. Citing something that just cites this page is recursive. 71.192.54.222 (talk) 05:09, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

I went ahead and found a press release and adjusted the entry. He did work for an unreleased game. 71.192.54.222 (talk) 04:45, 20 January 2008 (UTC)