Bob Bergen

Bob Berger, 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!.

Early life

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. He crashed a recording session for the live stage show version of Bugs Bunny in Space, 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. He also met June Foray during a live reading of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends while attending an ASIFA-Hollywood show at a mall in Woodland Hills. 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.

Career

In 1990, Bergen joined a handful of actors voicing the Looney Tunes characters, beginning with Tiny Toon Adventures. He is the current voice of Porky Pig, and has also voiced Tweety, Barnyard Dawg, Henery Hawk, Hubie and Bertie, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf, Sylvester Jr., Speedy Gonzales, and Wile E. Coyote, alternating the roles with Jeff Bergman, Mel Blanc's son Noel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, Billy West and Eric Bauza. Warner Bros. had been splitting up the various voice-acting roles to prevent any one of them from being a singular successor. Bergen had previously voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for ABC Family Fun Fair, an annual stage show for disabled children in the 1980s.
Bergen provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III for the Streamline Pictures dubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s: The Mystery of Mamo, The Castle of Cagliostro and Lupin III's Greatest Capers. He also played the part of No-Face in the 2001 Academy Award-winning movie Spirited Away, and Kai and Masaru in the Streamline-dubbed version of the anime classic Akira. He is also responsible for the voices of Luke Skywalker in over a dozen Star Wars video games as well as the Robot Chicken episodes Episode I, II and III; Wembley and the World's Oldest Fraggle in Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series, the animated versions of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Link Hogthrob in Little Muppet Monsters, and additional characters in the 1987–89 seasons of Muppet Babies. 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 appeared as himself in interview segments of the 2014 documentary I Know That Voice, and in a 2017 episode of the ABC game show To Tell the Truth. On May 2, 2024, Bergen was revealed to be an announcer for MeTV Toons.

Personal life

Bergen is Jewish. He married a man named Scott in 2023–2024.

Filmography

Animation

Anime

Film

Direct-to-video films

Live-action

Army of Darkness — Necronomicon Ex-Mortis, various Creature voices
Beetleborgs Metallix — Roo-thless
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
Gremlins — Various Gremlins voices
I Know That Voice — Himself
Jep! — Host
Look Who's Talking Now — Additional Dogs and Wolves voices
Total Recall — Customs Agent, additional voices
The Santa Clause 2 — Comet the Reindeer
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause — Comet the Reindeer
Hell's Kitchen — Himself
Wicked: For Good — Additional voices
Video games
Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
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
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