Creator Cameo: A tie-in comic to the live-action films depicting Optimus Prime's holographic decoy driver when he's in vehicle mode - it's a dead ringer for Cullen.Actor Allusion: Greg Sepelak and Trent Troop, writers for several pieces of Transformer lore and merchandise, have said that in their minds, the Shattered Glass incarnation of Optimus Prime sounds like Venger from Dungeons & Dragons (1983).I am Peter Cullen, and I send these tropes to any surviving topers out there among the stars He later voiced Sourpuss the family cat opposite Frank's Chomp-Chomp the family dog in Hanna-Barbera's Pac-Man series. His earliest animation role was as Mighty Man in Ruby-Spears' "Mighty Man and Yukk" segments on The Plastic Man Comedy Adventure Show, with Frank as Yukk. Transformers also wasn't his first collaboration with Frank Welker. Also, not to be confused with Peter Mullan. No relation to Bill Cullen, or that sparkly vampire dude. Cullen also voiced Monterey Jack on Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers for the first season, but was replaced by Jim Cummings for the rest of the series (Cummings had already voiced Monterey Jack in the five-part pilot movie "To The Rescue"). For many years he provided voice-overs for Toonami's promos (as "the big guy"). He has narrated and played Coran (Raible in the original) and King Alfor (King Raimon) in the Lion Voltron ( GoLion) series, the transforming spaceship/robot Ramrod (Bismarck in the original) in the 1980s anime series Saber Rider and the Star Sheriffs ( Sei Juushi Bismarck note Literally, "Star Musketeer Bismarck"), Commander James Hawkins in the Vehicle Voltron ( Dairugger XV) series, Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh, Venger in Dungeons & Dragons (1983), the narrator, Murky Dismal, and Skydancer in Rainbow Brite, Eddie Spenser in Filmation's Ghostbusters, the Predator in the original film, King Kong in the 1976 remake, and KARR in Knight Rider.Ĭullen also holds the distinction of being the first voice actor to portray Mario in any language (in the Donkey Kong segments from Saturday Supercade) note however, the first live-action portrayal of Mario was Harris Shore in a commercial for Donkey Kong home conversions shot in 1981, predating him. Cullen's voice is so closely associated with the character these days that on the rare occasion he isn't voicing Optimus, whoever is will probably be doing their best impression of Cullen.īefore he ended up filling Prime's tire tracks, Cullen did prolific voice work through the 60s, 70s and early 80s. Since 2007 he has become the iconic voice of Prime, returning to the role in Transformers: Prime, Transformers: Rescue Bots, Transformers: Robots in Disguise, the tie-in web animations The Transformers: Titans Return and The Transformers: Power of the Primes, and numerous video games including the tie-ins to the movie series, Transformers: War for Cybertron and Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, and Transformers: Devastation. So celebrated was the news that he was the former Trope Namer for And the Fandom Rejoiced, under the name "Cue Cullen". Cullen might have just been the first of many voice actors to lend their vocals to the Autobot leader, until 2007 when the live-action film series began and he returned to voice Optimus in all five films as well as the spin-offs, Bumblebee and Rise of the Beasts. Peter Claver Cullen (born Jin Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian voice actor best known for his Star-Making Role as the voice of Optimus Prime in the original Generation 1 incarnation of The Transformers. No sacrifice is too great in the service of freedom. " Freedom is the right of all sentient beings.
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