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Bob Bergen
Bergen at the 2014 Annie Awards
Born	Bob Berger (1964-03-08) March 8, 1964 (age 60) St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.
Other names	Bob S. Berger
Occupations	Voice actor television host
Years active	1980–present
Website	bobbergen.com

Bob Berger (born March 8, 1964), known professionally as Bob Bergen, 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

In his childhood, Bergen would often spend hours watching and taping cartoons, imitating voices as well as creating characters of his own. He once told his parents that he wanted to voice Porky Pig, to which his mother objected.

As a teenager in 1978, he phoned Mel Blanc after researching in phone books, crashed a recording session pretending to be Blanc's assistant, and watched him in action. Upon the realization that he needed training, and for his voice to change, he began studying voice-over with coaches in Los Angeles. He took acting lessons with Daws Butler at his weekly voice-over workshop. In March 1980, Bergen appeared as a contestant on a Teen Week episode of Wheel of Fortune, winning prizes including a watch. After two years at a Meisner acting conservatory and three years of improv study with The Groundlings, he was able to secure an agent at age 18 and pursue his dream, while working as a tour guide at Universal Studios to make ends meet.

In 1990, Bergen joined a handful of actors voicing the Looney Tunes characters. He is the current voice of Porky Pig, and has also voiced Tweety, Barnyard Dawg, Henery Hawk, Hubie and Bertie, Marvin the Martian, Sylvester Jr., and Speedy Gonzales, alternating the roles with Jeff Bergman, Mel's son Noel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson and Billy West. Warner Bros. had been splitting up the various voice-acting roles to prevent any one of them from being a singular successor.

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 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 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 documentary 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

Films

Direct-to-video films

Live-action

• Army of Darkness — Various Creature voices
• Beetleborgs Metallix — Roo-thless (voice, few lines)
• 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 — Gasgano, Ody Mandrell
• 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

Awards and nominations

References

1. "Bob Bergen on Twitter: "I think that's my only credit with my real name. Had to change it as there was already a Bob Berger in SAG.… "". Archived from the original on July 23, 2020.
2. Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | TV Shows | Movie Trailers | Reviews – Rotten Tomatoes
3. ^ "Bob Bergen Official Web Site: Bio". www.bobbergen.com. Retrieved April 25, 2022.
4. ^ "Bob Bergen - Actor - Self-Employed". LinkedIn. Retrieved December 14, 2024.
5. ^ @BobBergen (February 6, 2021). "Never thought about it. Over the years I've voiced Porky, Tweety/Speedy/Marvin/Hubie/Bertie/Sylvester, Jr./Barnyard…" (Tweet). Retrieved April 4, 2021 – via Twitter.
6. That's Still Not All Folks! 2009, by Joe Alaskey, page 96 ISBN 978-1593931124
7. "Porky Pig's Stutter Is More Complex Than You Probably Realize". io9. July 5, 2014.
8. Pfefferman, Naomi (September 19, 2011). "[PODCAST] An Emmy Nomination for the Kosher Porky Pig: 'Looney Tunes' ' Bob Bergen [UPDATE]". Jewish Journal. Retrieved September 8, 2022.
9. ^ "Bob Bergen (158 Character Images)". Behind The Voice Actors.
10. "Lost Saturday Mornings: "Little Muppet Monsters" (1985) |". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
11. Laff Riot (full Unaired Pilot): Warner Bros.: Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming: Internet Archive
12. "Bob Bergen Discusses Returning as Porky Pig for 'Looney Tunes Cartoons' on HBO Max". May 25, 2020. Retrieved May 29, 2020.
13. "Ridley Jones (2021)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved July 13, 2021. A green check mark indicates that a role has been confirmed using a screenshot (or collage of screenshots) of a title's list of voice actors and their respective characters found in its credits or other reliable sources of information.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
14. "New Looney Tunes Show 'Bugs Bunny Builders' on Cartoonito July 25". MSN. Retrieved August 2, 2022.
15. Bergen, Bob (June 22, 2023). "[Tiny Toons cast announcement]". Instagram. Retrieved June 22, 2023.
16. "Meet the All-Star Voice Cast for "Tiny Toons Looniversity"" (Press release). Cartoon Network. June 22, 2023. Retrieved June 22, 2023 – via The Futon Critic.
17. The Emperor's New Groove (2000) – IMDb, retrieved December 23, 2020
18. @BobBergen (April 2, 2021). "OOO! Wook what I taw! @spacejammovie" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
19. Sucker Punch Productions. Infamous First Light. Scene: Closing credits, 1:18 minutes in, Additional Voice Acting by.
20. @BobBergen (April 22, 2021). "Well..the truth is..I don't know. Not sure what that is. I assume it's a game??? I have no recollection of that ses…" (Tweet). Retrieved April 25, 2021 – via Twitter.
21. Vicarious Visions. Skylanders: SuperChargers. Activision. Scene: Closing credits, 7:13 in, Voice Actors.

External links

• 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

• 1964 births
• Living people
• 20th-century American male actors
• 21st-century American male actors
• American game show hosts
• American male video game actors
• American male voice actors
• Animal impersonators
• Male actors from St. Louis
• Jewish American male actors