It just rang a bell, and I was cast in that part. I guess people somehow picked up on that.” Cullen has voiced Optimus Prime since the original “The Transformers” show debuted in 1984.

Transformers Webcast pops up – Peter Cullen confirmed as voice of Optimus Prime Our own sister-site Cinematical picked up on this a few days ago, as it seems Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci ...

There is one major constant, though. Optimus Prime will sound the same as he always has. Peter Cullen is once again going to provide the stoic voice for the leader of the Autobots.

Cullen has been a voice actor since the '70s. He is most famously the voice of Optimus Prime in the animated and live-action Transformers, Eeyore in Winnie the Pooh and Zandar in G.I. Joe.

For decades, Peter Cullen has provided the iconic voice of Transformers’ Optimus Prime. Upcoming film Transformers One, though, heads back to Cybertron to before Optimus Prime became leader of ...

“The goal was never to mimic or sound like Peter Cullen. This is the brash young version of Orion Pax or Optimus Prime before he becomes the all-knowing figure we know.” ...

He also provides Optimus Prime’s voice in Paramount Pictures’ live-action Transformers movies. He’ll return in the next installment of the series, 2023’s Transformers: Rise of the Beasts.

Peter Cullen was the first actor to voice Optimus Prime, in the 1980s TV cartoon. Image: AP On landing the role of Optimus Prime in the 1980s cartoon I auditioned like everybody else.

Marvel veteran Chris Hemsworth says he never wanted to mimic longtime Optimus Prime actor Peter Cullen when playing a younger version of the character in the upcoming animated film, Transformers One.