Peter Claven Cullen (born July 28, 1941 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is a Canadian-American voice actor. He's best known as the original voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers and The Transformers: The Movie. He reprises his role the voice of Optimus Prime in the live-action Transformers film series, Transformers: Prime, Rescue Bots, Robot in Disguise (2015), Titan Return and Power of the Primes and video games like the Cybertron series and Transformers: Devastation. He was the voice of KARR is the pilot episode of the original Knight Rider and the voice of The Predator in the first Predator film. He also voiced Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh media after Ralph Wright’s death.
Cullen was the announcer for Toonami from 1999 to 2008. Steve Blum (the voice of the host of Toonami, TOM since 2000) referred him as "The Big Guy".
Cullen did some additional voices on Tom & Jerry Kids Show, especially the voice of the Dogcatcher in The Little Urfulls, Hunk Hardbody in Muscle Beach Droopy, Bazooka in Pound Hound, The Krazy Klaws leader in Krazy Klaws and Big Fig in The Little Thinker.
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- Peter Cullen at Wikipedia
- Peter Cullen at Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki