Peter Cullen, right, helps Frank Welker, the voice of Megatron, make handprints in Play-Doh compound at HASCON, the first-ever FANmily™ event from Hasbro, Inc. "We travel together to a lot to these conventions and I look forward to it, because it's just non-stop laughter. "Working with Frank, that was the beginning of a huge, huge ongoing career," Cullen said. Cullen still celebrates Welker's talent and creativity. Especially with Frank Welker."Ĭullen met Welker on 1979's Mighty Man and Yukk, and the pair have been friends ever since. "It was an opportunity to work with other actors and replenish that absence of performing. "I was a seven-day-a-week, in-front-of-a-microphone for years and it was a story of constant work, and then finally into cartoons, when the cartoons were massive. there was really no time for for acting in film or television," Cullen said. "In voiceover, it just took off with commercials and movie trailers, cartoons. From the National Theatre School of Canada and summer stock theatre in New York, he also did one-hour radio shows for CBC and television work for the public broadcaster, as well. "I look forward to it always."Ĭullen has an achieved an impressive career going back decades. "It is an opportunity to say thanks," Cullen told Yahoo Canada. (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)įew voice actors are as beloved as Montreal-born Peter Cullen, most famously known for voicing Optimus Prime in the Transformers franchise.Īs the 82-year-old makes his way to Toronto for Fan Expo Canada, Cullen said he feels "honoured" to continue to have the opportunity to meet fans - Canadians in particular - at fandom events. Peter Cullen attends Paramount's "Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts" premiere at Kings Theatre on Jin New York City.
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