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Peter Robbins (born Louis G. Nanasi;[1][2] August 10, 1956 – January 18, 2022) was an American actor. He gained national fame in the 1960s as being the first actor to voice Charlie Brown in the Peanuts animated specials. He was one of the most famous child actors of the 60s.

Peter Robbins
Robbins in a publicity photo for Blondie (1968)
Born	Louis G. Nanasi (1956-08-10)August 10, 1956 Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Died	January 18, 2022(2022-01-18) (aged 65) Oceanside, California, U.S.
Alma mater	University of California, San Diego
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1963–1972
Known for	Voice of Charlie Brown
Relatives	Ahna Capri (sister)

Early life

Peter Robbins was born Louis G. Nanasi in Los Angeles, California, on August 10, 1956.[2] Robbins was of Hungarian descent.[1] He graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1979.[3] His sister was the actress Ahna Capri (Anna Marie Nanasi).[4]

Career

Robbins first began acting in various films and television shows at the age of seven. As a child, he made a guest appearance as Elmer in the popular series The Munsters.[1] Most distinctly, at the age of nine, Robbins provided the voice of Charlie Brown, whom he considered to be his childhood hero,[5] in one television documentary, six Peanuts television specials and one movie from 1963 to 1969, including the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the television specials A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. At the age of fourteen, Robbins was replaced by younger child actors in the Peanuts specials produced after the 1960s, but his trademark scream of "AAUGH!", first used in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), continued to be used in later specials for Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters.[6][7]

Robbins appeared in an episode of F Troop in 1966 entitled "The Sergeant and the Kid" and appeared in an episode of Get Smart as the mysterious Dr. T.[8] He also appeared in the Sonny & Cher film, Good Times. Robbins retired from the entertainment industry in 1972, and later pursued his career in real estate, with brief stints in radio.[1][9] In 1996, he hosted a talk radio show in Palm Springs, California at KPSL 1010 Talk Radio.[10] By 2006, according to a broadcast by National Public Radio, he was managing real estate in Van Nuys.[9] By 2020, after finally receiving the correct medication for his lifetime bipolar disorder, Robbins was back, signing autographs of the Charlie Brown Christmas book in public appearances at Comic-Con conventions across the United States.[11] Robbins explained the path which led to his recovery in an October 2019 television interview with Fox 5 San Diego reporter Phil Bauer. At the time of his death, Robbins was working on his autobiography, Confessions of a Blockhead, detailing his life, his jail experiences, and his future.[12]

Personal life and death

Robbins had a lifelong battle with mental illness.[5] Despite his personal struggles, he remained attached to Charlie Brown and even had a tattoo of Charlie Brown and Snoopy on his arm.[5]

Robbins died by suicide on January 18, 2022, at the age of 65.[13] His death was announced the following week on January 25.[5]

Legal issues

On January 20, 2013, Robbins was arrested by San Diego County Sheriff's Department deputies at Homeland Security's Port of Entry in San Ysidro, California, while re-entering the United States, and charged with "four felony counts of making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury and one felony count of stalking." The four counts involved four victims, including a San Diego Police sergeant, whom Robbins reportedly threatened with bodily harm on January 13, 2013.[8][14][15][16] He was held on $550,000 bond.[17] On May 8, 2013, he was sentenced to a year in jail for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon, but he was allowed to log time in treatment instead. After release, he was sent to a residential drug treatment center.[18]

In 2015, Robbins was arrested for multiple probation violations, including drinking alcohol and failing to complete mandatory domestic violence classes. On June 5, 2015, he was ordered to undergo a mental health exam after an outburst during a court proceeding in San Diego.[19]

On December 7, 2015, Robbins was sentenced to four years and eight months in prison as part of a plea agreement for sending threatening letters to the manager (and the manager's wife) of the mobile home park in which he lived in Oceanside. Robbins had stated at previous hearings that he had bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia.[20][21] Robbins was incarcerated at the California Institution for Men in Chino and was transferred to a psychiatric hospital because of his mental state. He was released on parole in October 2019 after serving 80 percent of his sentence, on the conditions that he did not drink alcohol or take any illegal drugs.[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	A Ticklish Affair	Grover Martin
1966	And Now Miguel	Pedro
	Moment to Moment	Timmy Stanton
1967	Good Times	Brandon
1969	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown	Voice

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1963	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television Documentary[5]
1964	Rawhide	Mike	Episode: "Incident of the Pied Piper"
	The Donna Reed Show	Peewee	Episode: "Teamwork"
	Vacation Playhouse	Richard	Episode: "Hey Teacher"
	The Munsters	Elmer	Episode: "Rock-a-Bye Munster"[1]
	The Farmer's Daughter	Josh	Episode: "Sorak for Yourself John Katy"
	The Joey Bishop Show	Other Child, Peter	2 episodes
1965	A Charlie Brown Christmas	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television special[5]
1966	Charlie Brown's All Stars!	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television special[5]
	Love on a Rooftop		Episode: "The Chocolate Hen"
	It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television film[5]
	ABC Stage 67	Herbert	Episode: "Noon Wine"
1967	The F.B.I.	Jobie	Episode: "The Raid"
	F Troop	Joey Walker	Episode: "The Sergeant and the Kid"[8]
	You're in Love, Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television special[5]
	Get Smart	Dr. Tattledove	Episode: "The Mysterious Dr. T"[8]
1968	He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television special
1968–1969	Blondie	Alexander Bumstead	16 episodes
1969	It Was a Short Summer, Charlie Brown	Charlie Brown (voice)	Television special[5]
1970	Bracken's World	David	Episode: "Nude Scene"
1971	Dinah's Place	Himself
1972	My Three Sons	Jeffrey Fredericks	Episode: "The Birth of Arfie"
1985	It's Your 20th Television Anniversary, Charlie Brown	Himself	Documentary
1990	You Don't Look 40, Charlie Brown
2001	The Making of "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
2005	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno		1 episode
	TV Land's Top Ten		1 episode
2021	Abq Comic-Con! Documentary		Documentary

Awards

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Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result
1971	Grammy Awards	Best Recording for Children	A Boy Named Charlie Brown	Nominated
1978		Best Recording for Children	A Charlie Brown Christmas	Nominated
1979		Best Recording for Children	Charlie Brown's All Stars!	Nominated
1980		Best Recording for Children	You're in Love, Charlie Brown	Nominated

References

External links

• Peter Robbins at IMDb
• Peter Robbins at the TCM Movie Database
• Peter Robbins discography at Discogs
• Portrait of Peter Robbins, 1971. Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive (Collection 1429). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.

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[de] Peter Robbins (Schauspieler)

Peter Robbins (* 10. August 1956 in Los Angeles, Kalifornien; † 18. Januar 2022 in Oceanside, Kalifornien), geboren als Louis Nanasi, war ein US-amerikanischer Kinderschauspieler und Synchronsprecher ungarischer Abstammung.[1][2] Er wurde als englische Stimme der Trickfilmfigur Charlie Brown bekannt.[2]

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