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Former child actor Peter Robbins, known as the voice of Charlie Brown, has died by suicide. Robbins was 65 years old. He portrayed the voice of Charlie Brown from the age 9-13.Peter Robbins, who voiced Charlie Brown in the classic Peanuts specials of the 1960s, has died. He was 65.pic.twitter.com/tO2qM9jpYX— Eric Alper 🎧 (@ThatEricAlper) January 26, 2022As an adult, Robbins was known to struggle with addiction to drugs and alcohol and spent time in a rehab center. He was arrested in 2013 on stalking charges. He also snagged a five-year prison stretch for making criminal threats against people, including a...

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...

A judge Friday ordered a mental examination for a former child actor who unleashed a verbal tirade during a sentencing hearing. Peter Robbins, 58, who provided the voice of Charlie Brown in several "Peanuts" animated television specials from 1965 to 1969, was set to be sentenced to jail for probation violations from his guilty plea to threatening an ex-girlfriend and her plastic surgeon. But Robbins began yelling and cursing at Judge Robert O'Neil. He said he wanted to withdraw his guilty plea, using foul language to describe the judge. O'Neil delayed sentencing and, at the request of Robbins' attorney, ordered a...

A judge warned Peter Robbins that he could be sent to prison for nearly four years if he violates the terms of his probation. He sentenced him to one year in jail, but immeditely suspended it and ordered him to attend a drug treatment programme instead. "Don't be a blockhead," Superior Court Judge Dwayne Moring told Robbins, borrowing a line from Charlie Brown's friend Lucy. Robbins, 56, choked back tears as he told the judge that treatment for alcoholism and addiction to prescription medications would be a first step toward becoming "the fun-loving person" he was. He said he loved...