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‘Charlie Brown’ voice actor from 1965 Christmas special dead at 65
Peter Robbins, the previous baby actor who first put a voice to Charles Schultz’s lovable “blockhead” Charlie Brown has died, in response to reviews.
He was 65 years previous.
Robbins, born in 1956, started working in 1963 on reveals like “Rawhide,” “The Donna Reed Present” and “The Munsters” however he’s finest recognized for enjoying Charlie Brown in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and different “Peanuts” cartoons like “It’s the Nice Pumpkin, Charlie Brown” and the full-length animated film “A Boy Named Charlie Brown.”
His household instructed FOX 5 San Diego that Robbins died by suicide final week.
LOS ANGELES, CA – OCTOBER 07: Voice actor Peter Robbins and Charlie Brown attend Warner Residence Video’s DVD Launch of “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown” October 7, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Valerie Macon/Getty Pictures)
(Photograph by Valerie Macon/Getty Pictures)
Robbins first voiced Charlie Brown in a 1963 documentary about Schultz additionally known as “A Boy Named Charlie Brown,” in response to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Robbins give up the enterprise earlier than school and labored as an actual property agent in San Diego, in response to his IMDB profile.
Voice actor Peter Robbins (R) and Snoopy attend the DVD launch for Warner Residence Video’s “You’re Not Elected, Charlie Brown” held on the Hollywood & Highland courtyard on October 7, 2008 in Hollywood, California. (Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage)
(Photograph by Alberto E. Rodriguez/WireImage)
Robbins struggled together with his psychological well being at occasions, together with bipolar dysfunction and was sentenced to 5 years in jail in 2015 for making threats to a supervisor of a cellular dwelling park and San Diego County Sheriff Invoice Gore. He additionally hung out in rehab for habit points.
In 2019, after Robbins acquired out of jail, he spoke to FOX 5, opening up about his psychological well being points. “I might advocate to anyone that has bipolar dysfunction to take it significantly as a result of your life can flip round within the span of a month, prefer it did to me. I got here out of jail and I’m a greater particular person for it. I’m far more humble and grateful and grateful that I lived via the expertise.”
Peter Robbins is probably finest recognized for voicing the lovable “blockhead” in 1965’s “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
(Photograph by ABC Photograph Archives/Disney Normal Leisure Content material through Getty Pictures)
He added on the time, “Charlie Brown followers are the best followers on the planet and everyone is prepared, I hope, to offer me a second probability.”
In case you or somebody you already know is having ideas of suicide, please contact the Nationwide Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255).
