# Bob Bergen

Bob Berger (born March 8, 1964), known professionally as Bob Bergen, is an American voice actor. He voices Warner Bros. cartoon characters Porky Pig and Tweety and has voiced characters in the English dubs of various anime. He formerly hosted the children's game show Jep!, adapted from the game show Jeopardy!. He is currently the fifth-highest-grossing actor of all time.

## Life and career

In his childhood, Bergen would often spend hours watching and taping cartoons, imitating voices as well as creating characters of his own. He once told his parents that he wanted to voice Porky Pig, to which his mother objected.
As a teenager in 1978, he phoned Mel Blanc after researching in phone books, crashed a recording session pretending to be Blanc's assistant, and watched him in action. Upon the realization that he needed training, and for his voice to change, he began studying voice-over with coaches in Los Angeles. He took acting lessons with Daws Butler at his weekly voice-over workshop. In March 1980, Bergen appeared as a contestant on a Teen Week episode of Wheel of Fortune, winning prizes including a watch. After two years at a Meisner acting conservatory and three years of improv study with The Groundlings, he was able to secure an agent at age 18 and pursue his dream, while working as a tour guide at Universal Studios to make ends meet.
In 1990, Bergen joined a handful of actors voicing the Looney Tunes characters. He is the current voice of Porky Pig, and has also voiced Tweety, Barnyard Dawg, Henery Hawk, Hubie and Bertie, Marvin the Martian, Sylvester Jr., and Speedy Gonzales, alternating the roles with Jeff Bergman, Mel's son Noel Blanc, Joe Alaskey, Greg Burson, Billy West and Eric Bauza. Warner Bros. had been splitting up the various voice-acting roles to prevent any one of them from being a singular successor. Bergen had previously voiced Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck for ABC Family Fun Fair, an annual stage show for disabled children in the 1980s.
Bergen provided the voice of Arsène Lupin III for the Streamline Pictures dubs in the late 1980s and early 1990s: The Mystery of Mamo (directed by Sōji Yoshikawa), The Castle of Cagliostro (directed by Hayao Miyazaki) and Lupin III's Greatest Capers (two TV episodes from series two directed by Hayao Miyazaki). He also played the part of No-Face in the 2001 Academy Award-winning movie Spirited Away, and Kai and Masaru in the Streamline-dubbed version of the anime classic Akira. He is also responsible for the voices of Luke Skywalker in over a dozen Star Wars video games as well as the Robot Chicken episodes Episode I, II and III; Wembley and the World's Oldest Fraggle in Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series, the animated versions of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Link Hogthrob in Little Muppet Monsters, and additional characters in the 1987–89 seasons of Muppet Babies. He also voiced Wind-Up in Skylanders: Swap Force, Skylanders: Trap Team and Skylanders: SuperChargers.
In 1998, Bergen hosted Jep!, the children's version of Jeopardy!, on Game Show Network. He appeared as himself in interview segments of the 2014 documentary I Know That Voice, and in a 2017 episode of the ABC game show To Tell the Truth.
Bergen is Jewish.

## Filmography
### Anime

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1979–1980 | Tales of the Wolf | Arsène Lupin III/The Wolf | |
| 1989 | Megazone 23 | Shogo Yahagi | Streamline Pictures dub |
| 1990–1991 | The Secret of Blue Water | Dr. Ayerton | Original dub |
| 1992–1993 | Teknoman | Blade/Teknoman | |
| 1993 | Crimson Wolf | Kai | |
| 2001 | Spirited Away | No-Face | English dub |

### Live-action

* Army of Darkness — Various Creature voices
* Beetleborgs Metallix — Roo-thless (voice, few lines)
* Dunston Checks In — Dunston's vocal effects
* Fright Night Part 2 — Various Vampire and Creature vocal effects
* Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College — Rat Ghoulie (voice)
* Gremlins — Various Gremlins voices (credited as Bob Berger)
* I Know That Voice — Himself
* Jep! — Host
* Look Who's Talking Now — Additional Dogs and Wolves voices
* Total Recall — Additional voices
* The Santa Clause 2 — Comet the Reindeer
* The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause — Comet the Reindeer
* Hell's Kitchen — Himself

### Video games

* Bugs Bunny's Birthday Ball — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Honey Bunny
* Boom Blox — Additional voices
* Disney Universe — HEX
* Disney Sports Soccer — Sports Announcer
* Disney Sports Basketball — Sports Announcer
* Disney Sports Football — Sports Announcer
* Disney Sports Skateboarding — Sports Announcer
* Escape From Monkey Island — Whipp the Lucre Lawyer
* Infamous First Light — Additional voices
* Looney Tunes: Cartoon Conductor – Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
* Looney Tunes Racing — Porky Pig
* Looney Tunes: Acme Arsenal — Porky Pig, Evil Porky, Dr. Frankenbeans
* Looney Tunes: Back In Action — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
* Looney Tunes: World of Mayhem — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester Jr.
* Looney Tunes: Space Race — Porky Pig
* Scooby-Doo and Looney Tunes: Cartoon Universe — Porky Pig, Tweety Bird
* Sheep Raider — Porky Pig
* Skylanders: SuperChargers — Wind-Up
* Skylanders: Swap Force — Wind-Up
* Skylanders: Trap Team — Wind-Up
* Star Wars: Battlefront II — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Episode I: Racer — Gasgano, Ody Mandrell
* Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace — Alien Pedestrian, Coruscant Thug #3, EV-7G, Gungan Citizen #2
* Star Wars: Force Commander — Coruscant Palace Guard, Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds — Luke Skywalker, Reytha Soldier
* Star Wars: Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy — Luke Skywalker, Saboteur 2
* Star Wars Jedi Knight II: Jedi Outcast — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Masters of Teräs Käsi — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Racer Revenge — Ody Mandrell, Gasgano
* Star Wars: Rebellion — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Rogue Squadron — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars Rogue Squadron III: Rebel Strike — Luke Skywalker
* Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire — Luke Skywalker (PC version)
* Star Wars: The Old Republic — Additional voices
* Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance — Luke Skywalker, Civilian Officer
* Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter — Rebel Pilot #5
* Sylvester and Tweety in Cagey Capers — Tweety Bird
* The Junkyard Run — Porky Pig

### Shorts

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1995 | Carrotblanca | Tweety, The Crusher | |
| 2004 | My Generation G...G...Gap | Additional voices | |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Result | Show | Character | Category | Award Show |
| 2004 | Nominated | Duck Dodgers | Porky Pig/Eager Young Space Cadet | Outstanding Voice Acting in an Animated Television Production | Annie Awards |
| 2011 | Nominated | The Looney Tunes Show: Jailbird And Jailbunny | Porky Pig | Outstanding Voice-Over Performance | Emmy Awards |
| 2013 | Nominated | The Looney Tunes Show: We're in Big Truffle | Porky Pig | Outstanding Voice-Over Performance | Emmy Awards |
| 2019 | Nominated | New Looney Tunes | Porky Pig | Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program | Emmy Awards |
| 2023 | Nominated | Looney Tunes Cartoons | Porky Pig | Children's and Family Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice Performance in an Animated Program | Emmy Awards |