Peter Robbins (actor)

Peter Robbins (August 10, 1956; Los Angeles, California - January 18, 2022; Oceanside, California) was a child actor best known for his voice-over work as Charlie Brown in the 1960s. He provided Charlie Brown's voice in several Peanuts television specials and film from 1965 to 1969. These include the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and television specials A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. His best-known catch-phrase probably was the plaintive, "I got a rock", from the trick-or-treating scenes in Great Pumpkin. While Robbins was replaced by other child actors in the Peanuts specials produced after 1969, his trademark scream of "AAUGGGHH!!", first used in It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, continued to be used in the later specials for either Charlie Brown or the other kids.

He appeared in an episode of F Troop in 1966 entitled "The Sergeant And The Kid". He also appeared in an episode of Get Smart as the mysterious Dr. T.

According to a 2006 broadcast by National Public Radio, Peter Robbins was managing real estate in Van Nuys, California. Robbins visited the San Diego Comic-con in 2008 along with fellow former Peanuts voices and Lee Mendelson to speak to the crowd.

On January 20, 2013, Peter Robbins was charged for four felony counts of making a threat to cause death or great bodily injury and one felony count of stalking. On May 8, 2013, he was sentenced to a year in jail for threatening his former girlfriend and stalking her plastic surgeon. In 2015, he was arrested again for multiple probation violations and refusing to enter rehab. In 2019, he was released after serving 80% of his prison sentence.

Peter Robbins committed suicide on January 18, 2022 at the age of 65.