Bob Bergen
Bob Bergen | |
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Bergen at the 2014 Annie Awards | |
Born |
Robert Bergen March 8, 1964 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
Nationality | American |
Other names | Bob Bergan, Bob Berger |
Occupation | Voice actor |
Years active | 1985–present |
Website | |
www.bobbergen.com |
Robert "Bob" Bergen (born March 8, 1964 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American voice actor. He is the current voice of Porky Pig (having performed the character in Tiny Toon Adventures, Space Jam, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Duck Dodgers and The Looney Tunes Show), and formerly hosted Jep!, a kids' version of the popular game show Jeopardy!
Career
Bergen is responsible for the voice of Lupin the Third for the Streamline Pictures dubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s: Mystery of Mamo (directed by Soji Yoshikawa), The Castle of Cagliostro (directed by Hayao Miyazaki) and Lupin the Third's Greatest Capers (2 TV episodes from Series Two directed by Hayao Miyazaki). He also played the part of No-Face in the 2001 academy award winning movie Spirited Away and Kai and Masaru in the anime classic Akira.
He is also responsible for the voice of Luke Skywalker in over a dozen Star Wars video games as well as the Robot Chicken Episode I, Episode II and Episode III specials, the voice of Wembley and the World's Oldest Fraggle for the animated Fraggle Rock, was selected to play the animated versions of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Link Hogthrob in the ill-fated Little Muppet Monsters, and also voiced characters of the day in the 1987-1989 seasons of Jim Henson's Muppet Babies.
Filmography
Live-action roles
- Gremlins - Various Gremlins voices (credited as Bob Berger)
- Fright Night Part 2 - Various Vampire and Creature vocal effects
- Total Recall — Additional voices
- Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College - Rat Ghoulie (voice)
- Army of Darkness — Various Creature voices
- Look Who's Talking Now — Additional Dogs and Wolves voices
- Space Jam — Porky Pig, Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Hubie and Bertie
- Looney Tunes: Back in Action — Porky Pig, Ham And Ex, Charlie Dog, (voice)
- The Santa Clause — Comet the Reindeer
- The Santa Clause 2 — Comet the Reindeer
- The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause — Comet the Reindeer
- Jep! — Himself
- Dunston Checks In - Dunston's vocal effects
Anime roles
- Akira — Masaru, Kaisuke, Mitsuru Kuwata, Harukiya bartender, Additional Voices (Streamline Dub)
- The Secret of Blue Water — Dr. Ayerton (original dub)
- Lupin III: The Castle of Cagliostro — Lupin III/The Wolf (MGM version)
- Lily C.A.T. — Hiro Takagi
- Tales of the Wolf — Lupin III/The Wolf
- Megazone 23 — Shogo Yahagi
- Crimson Wolf — Kai
- Lupin III: The Mystery of Mamo — Lupin III (Streamline version)
- Teknoman — Blade/Teknoman
- Spirited Away — No-Face, Frog Workers
- Ponyo — Man on the boat (English version)
- Bleach: Hell Verse — Various
Non-anime roles
- Atlantis: The Lost Empire - Loop Group
- Carrotblanca — Tweety Bird
- Cats Don't Dance - Additional Voices
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - Additional Voices
- Duck Dodgers — Eager Young Space Cadet
- Escape from Planet Earth - 3D Movie Guy
- Felidae — Hermann 2 (English dub)
- Foodfight! - Additional Voices
- Fraggle Rock — Wembley Fraggle, World's Oldest Fraggle
- Happily N'Ever After - Additional Voices
- Hercules - Additional Voices
- Horton Hears A Who! - Additional Voices
- Ice Age: The Meltdown - Additional Voices
- Jim Henson's Little Muppet Monsters — Link Hogthrob, Dr. Bunsen Honeydew
- Monsters, Inc. - Witness #2
- Monsters University - Additional Voices
- Quest for Camelot - Additional Voices
- Robot Chicken — Porky Pig, Luke Skywalker, Roger Rabbit, Various other voices
- Sabrina: The Animated Series - Tim the Witch Smeller, Elton the Aardvark
- TMNT — Joe
- Shrek 2 - Additional Voices (ADR Group)
- Tangled - Additional Voices
- Tarzan - Additional Voices
- Tinker Bell — Fireflies
- Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure — Bugs, Creatures
- Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue — Additional Voices
- The Emperor's New Groove - Bucky the Squirrel, Bug
- The Emperor's New School — Bucky the Squirrel
- The Iron Giant - Additional Voices
- Tiny Toon Adventures — Porky Pig
- Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales
- The Looney Tunes Show — Porky Pig
- The Lorax - Additional Voices
- Totally Spies! - Ricky Mathis, Scientist, Worker #2
- Toy Story 2 - Additional Voices
- Up - Additional Voices
- Wreck-It Ralph - Additional Voices
Videogames
- Looney Tunes Racing — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
- Looney Tunes: Space Race — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
- Disney Universe — HEX
- Skylanders: Swap Force - Wind-Up
Awards and nominations
Year | Result | Show | Character | Category | Award Show |
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2004 | Nominated | Duck Dodgers | Porky Pig/Eager Young Space Cadet | Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production | Annie Awards |
2011 | Nominated | The Looney Tunes Show | Porky Pig | Outstanding Voice-Over Performance | Emmy Awards |
2013 | Nominated | The Looney Tunes Show | Porky Pig | Outstanding Voice-Over Performance | Emmy Awards |
External links
- Official website
- Bob Bergen at Voice Chasers
- Bob Bergen at the Internet Movie Database
- Toon Zone News interview with Bob Bergen ("A Life in Voice Acting")
- Bob Bergen interviewed on the TV show Trianglation on the TWiT.tv network
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