Bob Bergen Biography
Robert Bergen (born March 8, 1964) is an American voice actor. He voices Warner Bros. cartoon characters Porky Pig and Tweety and has voiced characters in the English dubs of various anime. He formerly hosted the children's game show Jep!, adapted from the game show Jeopardy!.
Life and career
Bergen, in his childhood, watched the Daffy and Speedy cartoons in theaters and didn't like them, saying they didn't make sense. He then watched The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Show in his later childhood.
As a teenager in 1980, Bergen appeared as a contestant on a Teen Week episode of Wheel of Fortune, winning prizes including a watch.
Bergen had taken acting lessons with Daws Butler at his weekly voice-over workshop.
Bergen is the current voice of the animated character Porky Pig, and has also voiced Tweety, Marvin the Martian, Sylvester Jr., and Speedy Gonzales.
Bergen is responsible for the voice of Arsène Lupin III for the Streamline Pictures dubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s: The Mystery of Mamo (directed by Sōji Yoshikawa), The Castle of Cagliostro (directed by Hayao Miyazaki) and Lupin III's Greatest Capers (two 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, one of the firefighters in The Incredibles, and Kai and Masaru in the Streamline-dubbed version of the anime cl*ic 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 episodes Episode I, II and III, 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 1987–89 seasons of Muppet Babies.
He appeared as himself in interview segments of the do*entary I Know That Voice.
He also voiced Wind-Up in Skylanders: Swap Force, Skylanders: Trap Team and Skylanders: SuperChargers.
In 1998, Bergen hosted Jep!, the children's version of Jeopardy!, on Game Show Network. He has also appeared on the ABC game show To Tell the Truth.
Bergen is Jewish.
Filmography
Animation
Anime
- Crimson Wolf — Kai
- Megazone 23 — Shogo Yahagi (Streamline Pictures dub)
- The Secret of Blue Water — Dr. Ayerton (original dub)
- Tales of the Wolf — Arsène Lupin III/The Wolf
- Teknoman — Blade/Teknoman
- Spirited Away — No-Face (English dub)
Films
Direct-to-video films
Live-action
- Army of Darkness — Various Creature voices
- Beetleborgs Metallix — Roo-thless (shared voice role with Lance Wingnut)
- Dunston Checks In — Dunston's vocal effects
- Fright Night Part 2 — Various Vampire and Creature vocal effects
- Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College — Rat Ghoulie (voice)
- Gremlins — Various Gremlins voices (credited as Bob Berger)
- I Know That Voice — Himself
- Jep! — Host
- Look Who's Talking Now — Additional Dogs and Wolves voices
- Total Recall — Additional voices
- The Santa Clause 2 — Comet the Reindeer
- The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause — Comet the Reindeer
- Hell's Kitchen — Himself
Video games
- Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Honey Bunny
- Boom Blox — Additional voices
- Disney Universe — HEX
- Disney Sports Soccer — Sports Announcer
- Disney Sports Basketball — Sports Announcer
- Disney Sports Football — Sports Announcer
- Disney Sports Skateboarding — Sports Announcer
- Escape From Monkey Island — Whipp the Lucre Lawyer
- Infamous First Light — Additional voices
- Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor – Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
- Looney Tunes Racing — Porky Pig
- Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal — Porky Pig, Evil Porky, Dr. Frankenbeans
- Looney Tunes: Back In Action — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
- Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Jr.
- Looney Tunes: Space Race — Porky Pig
- Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
- Sheep Raider — Porky Pig
- Skylanders: SuperChargers — Wind-Up
- Skylanders: Swap Force — Wind-Up
- Skylanders: Trap Team — Wind-Up
- Star Wars: Battlefront II — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Episode I: Racer — Clegg Holdfast, Jinn Resso, Wan Sandago, Cy Yanga, Gasgano
- Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace — Alien Pedestrian, Coruscant Thug #3, EV-7G, Gungan Citizen #2
- Star Wars: Force Commander — Coruscant Palace Guard, Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds — Luke Skywalker, Reytha Soldier
- Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy — Luke Skywalker, Saboteur 2
- Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Racer Revenge — Ody Mandrell, Gasgano
- Star Wars: Rebellion — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Rogue Squadron — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike — Luke Skywalker
- Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire — Luke Skywalker (PC version)
- Star Wars: The Old Republic — Additional voices
- Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance — Luke Skywalker, Civilian Officer
- Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter — Rebel Pilot #5
- Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers — Tweety Bird
- The Junkyard Run — Porky Pig
Shorts
- Carrotblanca — Tweety, The Crusher
- My Generation G...G...Gap — Additional voices
Awards and nominations
References
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Bob Bergen.- Official website
- Bob Bergen Archived July 20, 2011, at the Wayback Machine at Voice Chasers
- Bob Bergen at IMDb:
- Toon Zone News interview with Bob Bergen ("A Life in Voice Acting")
- Bob Bergen interviewed on the TV show Triangulation on the TWiT.tv network
- Matt Amodio
- Colby Burnett
- Arthur Chu
- Buzzy Cohen
- Julia Collins
- Richard Cordray
- Karl Coryat
- Roger Craig
- Chuck Forrest
- Jackie Fuchs
- Red Gibson
- Bob Harris
- James Holzhauer
- Matt Jackson
- Alex Jacob
- Ken Jennings
- Larissa Kelly
- Mark Lowenthal
- David Madden
- Arthur Phillips
- Mattea Roach
- Brad Rutter
- Amy Schneider
- Frank Spangenberg
- Eddie Tim*
- Jerome Vered
- Watson
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- Jep!
- Rock & Roll Jeopardy!
- Sports Jeopardy!
- British version
- Saturday Night Live sketch series
- "I Lost on Jeopardy"
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