RIP, CHUCK.
Posted on 01/25/2022 10:05:30 PM PST by Houserino
CARLSBAD, Calif. — Carlsbad native Peter Robbins, the voice actor who brought Charlie Brown to life in the Peanuts cartoons from the 1960s, has died, his family told FOX 5. He was 65.
Robbins’ family said he took his own life last week.
FOX 5’s Phil Blauer was a close friend of the voice actor over the past 25 years. He says he had closely followed the voice actor’s ups and downs, from interviewing him in jail because of criminal threats he made against several people, including San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore, to speaking with him when he was in rehab battling an addiction to drugs and alcohol.
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Dang- Sad to hear
Blockhead!
The doctor was in!
Must have had the ball yanked away one to many times.
No Great Pumpkin?
who were his enemies?
You just never relly know who’s having a hard time pushing through life. His real life seemed to be the opposite of that
Charlie Brown character, so relaxed, banal and never flustered.
I was surprised to see how bad he’d been doing the last 10 years or so. His wiki page is pretty sad. Sounds like the drugs/drinking wrecked him hard.
Terribly sad...
Ain't that the truth. So many people are struggling mentally right now. Lost a friend this weekend to the grips of alcohol. He just couldn't get sober and his family and most of his friends couldn't take it/him any more. Guess that was too much for him to live with...
Robbins first began acting in various films and television shows at the age of seven. As a child, he made a guest appearance as “Elmer” in the popular series The Munsters.[1] Most distinctly, at the age of nine, Robbins provided the voice of Charlie Brown, whom he considered to be his childhood hero,[2] in one television documentary, six Peanuts television specials and one movie from 1963 to 1969, including the film A Boy Named Charlie Brown and the television specials A Charlie Brown Christmas and It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. At the age of fourteen, Robbins was replaced by younger child actors in the Peanuts specials produced after the 1960s, but his trademark scream of “AUGH!!”, first used in It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, continued to be used in later specials for Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters.[4][5]
Despite his personal struggles, he remained attached to Charlie Brown and even had a tattoo of Charlie Brown and Snoopy on his arm.
- wikipedia
“in jail because of criminal threats he made against several people”
How surreal would it be getting a threatening phone call from Charlie Brown?
“CAN’T SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT CHRISTMAS IS ALL ABOUT?” (great line)
65...
Which means you did the Charlie Brown’s when he was 10 maybe 13.
A whole adult life spent living in the shadow of childhood voice over success?
Maybe there’s a PTSD associated with childhood acting fame and managing expectations when that tiny brush with fame and glory, smoke and thunder no longer exists and cannot be replicated despite a burning desire to stand in the warmth of that coddling bosom.
Untreated bipolar disorder is no laughing matter
RIP, CHUCK.
Sad.
Gynosociety has no time to care about guys with problems.
Growing up in the 1960s and 1970s was a really special time for children's cartoons, and the Christmas specials were special for kids then.
He must have been a child when he started. He died at age 65 so he 2as born in The Great Pumpkin came out in 1966, when he would have been 9. How could he keep his voice juvenile that long?
That’s so sad. He was looking for the meaning of Christmas. Just shows how Hollywood is the pits for some actors. It’s all illusion and if you can’t spin the web of illusion then you’re not worthy of anything. And you run from that reality in drugs and suicide. Sad. For me Biden is a faker too — he too is all lies. The people who like him must like getting lied to. No wonder the country is in a mess.
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