Sometimes, it's not all fun and rainbows behind every childhood animation. In a recent report, the 59 year old actor who voiced the gullible Charlie Brown in The Peanut pleaded guilty to committing death threats.
In the land of yellow birds and a dog named Snoopy, lies a mentally ill actor voicing the beloved cartoon. Peter Robbins, the man who voiced Charlie Brown in the Peanuts television specials pleaded guilty on Tuesday for threatening a San Diego County sheriff.
He claimed to have hired a hitman to kill Sheriff Bill Gore. He offered money to have Sheriff Gore murdered. On another count, he also pleaded guilty to threatening a manager of a mobile home park. But this was not his first offense.
In 2013, he pleaded guilty to threatening an ex girlfriend and a surgeon who augmented her breasts. He was sentenced to a year in jail. In another unrelated incident, he served four months in jail for breaking probation protocol for cutting off his GPS ankle monitor, drinking alcohol and not attending a mandated domestic violence class.
Robbins, pleaded a case of insanity. He tells the Superior Court Judge William Chesdey Jr. that he is mentally ill and that he is suffering from bipolar disorder and paranoid schizophrenia. "I've committed no crime" he added.
In June 2015, he was ordered to undergo a mental health exam because he lashed out at his defense attorney and the judge saying he hoped he would "drop dead of a heart attack."
He is looking at a sentence of four years and eight months.
Robbins is known famously for voicing the Peanuts Specials: A Charlie Brown Christmas and It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. He also appeared at a 2008 Comic-Con convention in San Diego. The actor as a child also appeared as "Elmer" in the popular 1964 series The Munsters.
He is living with a dog at home named Snoopy, as posted in LA Times.
