Peter Robbins, the original Charlie Brown voice actor, died at the age of 65. His family announced late Tuesday that the voice actor committed suicide last week. At the age of nine, Robbins began his acting career as a child actor, playing the popular Peanuts character in holiday classics such as A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965 and It’s A Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown in 1966.
The actor was a huge fan of Charlie Brown and his faithful dog Snoopy, and even got a tattoo of them. Unfortunately, the former child star, who battled bipolar disease as a youngster, has struggled later in life. He was sentenced to five years in jail in 2015 for making criminal threats against a number of individuals.
He pled guilty to mailing threatening letters to the media and a property manager at the mobile home park where he resided, offering money to assassinate San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. He allegedly intimidated other site inhabitants and sent drawings and messages to the property management.
He was first sentenced to probation while undergoing an in-house drug treatment program, but he was subsequently arrested and sentenced to prison for breaking his probation. While incarcerated, he threatened the sheriff and offered $50,000 to assassinate him. In the year 2019, the actor was released.