Peter Robbins

Peter Robbins (born Louis G. Nanasi; August 10, 1956 – January 18, 2022) was an American actor. Robbins gained national fame in the 1960s as being the first actor to voice Charlie Brown in the Peanuts animated specials. He was an active child actor in the 1960s. Early life Peter Robbins was born Louis G. Nanasi in Los Angeles, California, on August 10, 1956. He had Hungarian ancestry. Robbins graduated from the University of California, San Diego in 1979. His sister was the actress Ahna Capri (Anna Marie Nanasi). Career 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. At the age of nine, Robbins provided the voice of the eponymous character Charlie Brown, whom he considered to be his childhood hero, 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 "AAUGH!", first used in A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), continued to be used in later specials for Charlie Brown and other Peanuts characters.