Robert Bergen (born March 8, 1964 in St. Louis, Missouri) is a prolific American voice actor with several voice roles in western cartoons and a few in anime and video games. He has been the voice of Porky Pig, Tweety and other Looney Tunes characters, as well as voicing Lupin III in Streamline's dubs of The Castle of Cagliostro and The Mystery of Mamo, and Luke Skywalker in most of his non-film appearances (the Rogue Squadron series, Star Wars: Battlefront, Robot Chicken, etc.), he has also done creature sound effects in many feature films including Gremlins, Fright Night (1985), Army of Darkness, Dunston Checks In, and Total Recall (1990). He also did voice acting on Seal Team.
Bergen also has two connections to Game shows: he was a contestant on Wheel of Fortune in 1980, and the host of Jep!, a short-lived children's adaptation of Jeopardy! that aired on GSN in 1997.
Notable roles of Bob Bergen include:
- Porky Pig and Tweety Bird in various Looney Tunes productions and Robot Chicken.
- Marvin the Martian in Space Jam
- Speedy Gonzales in Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas
- Gabby Goat in Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production
- Bucky the Squirrel in The Emperor's New Groove and The Emperor's New School
- Hex in Disney Universe
- Luke Skywalker in various Star Wars video games, and for most of the character's appearances in Robot Chicken.
- Ody Mandrell in Star Wars Racer
- Lama Su in Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars: The Bad Batch
- Comet the Reindeer in The Santa Clause 2
- Dunston the Orangutan in Dunston Checks In
- Ned Leeds in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
- Wembley Fraggle in the Animated Adaptation of Fraggle Rock
- Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Link Hogthrob in The Little Muppet Monsters
- Various Mogwai and Gremlins in Gremlins
- Doug in Vampirina
- Eric Kauffman in Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase
- Kai and Masaru in the original 1988 dub of AKIRA
- Mr. Peabody in Ridley Jones
- Mame in the dub for A Letter to Momo
- Winter Soldier in Avengers Assemble
- Shōgo Yahagi in the Streamline dub of Megazone 23
- Additional Chickens in Chicken Run
- The Necronomicon and various Deadites in Army of Darkness
- the Rat Ghoulie in Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College!
- The Happy Meal Fries in McDonaldland
- Kaonashi and Aogaeru in Spirited Away
- Kichi in Robot Carnival
- Additional Voices in Once Upon a Studio
Tropes relating to Bob Bergen and his work:
- Acting for Two: He voices Porky, Tweety, Speedy, and Marvin in several different Looney Tunes projects. At least one episode of Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production has him voicing both Porky AND Gabby Goat.
- Man of a Thousand Voices: Would you have been able to guess that the current voice of Porky Pig has also done the voice of Luke Skywalker?
- Nice Guy: He is a VERY nice and friendly person.
- Promoted Fanboy: He's just as huge of a fan of the classic Looney Tunes shorts as we are. In fact, he's wanted to do the voice of Porky since he was a kid. Now, he's provided Porky's voice more times than even Mel Blanc!
- What Could Have Been: He auditioned to provide the voice of Boo-Boo
in Yogi Bear, a role that ultimately went to Justin Timberlake.
