Peter Sohn
Peter Sohn | |
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Born | [1] | January 23, 1977
Occupation | Animator, film director, storyboard artist, voice actor |
Employer | Pixar Animation Studios (2000–present) |
Spouse(s) | Anna Chambers |
Peter Sohn (born January 23, 1977) is an American animator, director, voice actor, and storyboard artist at Pixar Animation Studios.
Early life[]
Sohn was born in The Bronx and raised in New York City. His parents were Korean immigrants. He attended CalArts and while there got a summer job working on Brad Bird's The Iron Giant. After graduating from school he worked at The Walt Disney Company and Warner Bros. before coming to Pixar. He graduated from high school in 1995.
Career[]
Sohn started his career with Pixar in the art and story departments for Finding Nemo.[2] He also worked on The Incredibles, Ratatouille and WALL-E. Sohn also performed the voice of Emile in Ratatouille. He made his directorial debut with the short film Partly Cloudy in 2009 which he also wrote. Partly Cloudy was included in the Animation Show of Shows in 2009. Sohn co-directed the English-language version of Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea in 2009 with John Lasseter and Brad Lewis.[3]
Russell, the boy in Up, was based on Sohn.[4] He voiced Russell in the corresponding short, George & A.J., and "Squishy" in Monsters University.
Sohn directed The Good Dinosaur, which was released in November 2015. He also voiced the Styracosaurus character Forrest Woodbush.[5] While still working at Pixar, Sohn was set to voice the Marvel Comics character Ganke Lee in the Sony Pictures Animation film Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, though his lines were ultimately deleted from the final film.[6]
Personal life[]
Sohn is married to artist Anna Chambers, whom he met at CalArts.[7]
Filmography[]
Feature Films[]
Year | Title | Director | Executive Producer |
Writer | Story Artist |
Story Consultant |
Production Artist |
Animator | Other | Voice Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1999 | The Iron Giant | No | No | No | No | No | No | Additional | Yes | Rough In-between-er | |
2001 | Osmosis Jones | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | ||
2003 | Finding Nemo | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | ||
2004 | The Incredibles | No | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Additional Voices | |
2007 | Ratatouille | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | Emile | |
2008 | WALL-E | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
2009 | Up | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | ||
Ponyo | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Director: English Dub; US Version | ||
2010 | Toy Story 3 | No | No | No | No | No | Additional | No | No | ||
2012 | Brave | No | No | No | Additional | No | No | No | No | ||
2013 | Monsters University | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Squishy | |
2015 | Inside Out | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Senior Creative Team | |
The Good Dinosaur | Yes | No | Story | No | No | No | No | Yes | Forrest Woodbush | ||
2016 | Finding Dory | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
2017 | Cars 3 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Additional Voices | |
Coco | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
2018 | Incredibles 2 | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | ||
2019 | Toy Story 4 | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
2020 | Onward | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
Soul | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | |||
2021 | Luca | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Ciccio | |
2022 | Turning Red[8] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | ||
Lightyear[9] | No | No | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
Short Films and TV Specials[]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Production Artist |
Cinematographer | Animator | Other | Voice Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2005 | One Man Band | No | No | Yes | No | No | No | ||
2007 | Violet | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Your Friend the Rat | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Emile | Song Performer: "Plan B" | |
2008 | Cars Toons: Mater's Tall Tales | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Additional Voices | Episodes 1-4 |
2009 | Trifles | No | No | No | Yes | No | No | ||
Leonardo | No | No | No | No | Yes | No | |||
Partly Cloudy | Yes | Yes | No | No | No | No | |||
George & A.J. | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Russell | ||
2011 | Toy Story Toons: Small Fry | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Recycle Ben | Special Thanks |
2013 | A Monsters University Short: Party Central | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Squishy | |
Toy Story of Terror! | No | No | No | No | No | Yes | Transitron | TV Special |
Video Games[]
Year | Title | Voice Role |
---|---|---|
2007 | Ratatouille | Emile |
2012 | Kinect Rush: A Disney-Pixar Adventure | |
2013 | Disney Infinity | Squishy |
Other Credits[]
Year | Title | Role |
---|---|---|
2009 | Tracy | Blog Creator |
2015 | Borrowed Time | Thanks |
2018 | Bao | Special Thanks |
2019 | Purl | |
Smash and Grab | Brian Larsen's Story Brain Trust | |
Kitbull | Rosana Sullivan's Story Trust | |
Wind | Story Trust | |
2020 | Out |
References[]
- ^ Truitt, Brian (September 14, 2015). "TIFF: 'Good Dinosaur' stars friends, frontier". USA Today. Retrieved September 15, 2015.
...says Sohn, 38.
- ^ Corrado, E. (November 4, 2009). "Q & A with Pixar's Ronnie del Carmen and Pete Sohn - Part 1". One Movie, Five Views Archive. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
- ^ Murray, Rebecca. "'Ponyo' Movie Credits". About.com. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
- ^ Lee, Patrick (March 2, 2009). "Up director Pete Docter on talking dogs, youth scouts and adventure". Blastr. Retrieved July 2, 2012.
- ^ Keegan, Rebecca (September 18, 2013). "'The Good Dinosaur' moved to 2015, leaving Pixar with no 2014 film". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved September 18, 2013.
- ^ Sciretta, Peter (February 26, 2019). "Pixar Director Pete Sohn Originally Voiced Ganke in 'Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse'". /Film. Retrieved July 25, 2019.
- ^ Robertson, Barbara (April 9, 2009). "Peter Sohn". CGSociety. p. 2. Archived from the original on February 21, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
Sohn’s wife Anna Chambers, who he met at CalArts, is also an artist, and both create artwork at home.
- ^ Julie & T.J. (December 11, 2020). "Pixar Announces 'Turning Red' Directed by Domee Shi - Coming Spring 2022". Pixar Post. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
- ^ Julie & T.J. (December 10, 2020). "Pixar Announces 'Lightyear' – An Origin Story of the Human Buzz Lightyear – Coming Summer 2022". Pixar Post. Retrieved December 11, 2020.
External links[]
- Peter Sohn at IMDb
- American animated film directors
- 1977 births
- Animators from New York (state)
- American male screenwriters
- American male voice actors
- American storyboard artists
- American people of Korean descent
- California Institute of the Arts alumni
- Living people
- People from the Bronx
- Pixar people
- Animation screenwriters
- Screenwriters from New York (state)