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Peter Claver Cullen (born July 28, 1941 and died on August 27th, 2026) was a Canadian voice actor. He voiced Optimus Prime in the original 1980s Transformers animated series, later returning to the role in Transformers media in 2007, starting with the first live-action film. He has also voiced many other characters across a wide variety of popular media, including Eeyore in the Winnie the Pooh franchise, Monterey Jack in Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers, the first voice of KARR in Knight Rider, and the vocalizations of the title character in Predator (1987).
Peter Cullen
Orion Pax / Optimus Prime
for Orion Pax / Optimus Prime in Transformers Begins
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Transformers Begins is a 2024 American science fiction action film directed by Neill Blomkamp, produced by Zack Snyder, Jerry Bruckheimer, Michael Bay, and Steven Spielberg, and written by Blomkamp and Spielberg based on the Hasbro toy line of the same name. It is the first installment in the Cybertron Quadrilogy. The film stars the voices of Peter Cullen, Jeffrey Combs, Stacy Keach, Sasha Calle, Josh Brolin, Tom Hiddleston, Idris Elba, Sam Elliott, Christopher Judge as Ultra Magnus, and Jason Momoa as The Fallen. In the film, the planet Cybertron is scorched by a civil war between the heroic Autobots, led by Ultra Magnus, and the evil Decepticons, led by Starscream. Autobot librarian Orion Pax must prove himself worthy of wielding the legendary Matrix of Leadership and becoming the fourteenth and last prime. Transformers Begins opened in theaters on March 27th, 2024; it was met with highly positive reviews, with critics and audiences praising its visual effects, story, direction, screenplay, perfomances (particularly Cullen, Calle, Brolin, and Judge), Hans Zimmer's musical score, action sequences and emotional depth. It was also a box-office success, grossing $891 million worldwide against print and advertisement costs of $100 million. A sequel entitled Transformers: Devastator was released one year later.
