The original voice of the beloved Peanuts character talked to me about the suicide (or possible murd
Left to right, Peter Robbins (1956-2022) and Christopher Shea (1958-2010), the original voices of Charlie Brown and Linus Van Pelt in the 1960s Peanuts specials. This screen grab features a photo of their getting together just weeks before Christopher’s death.
My friend Peter Robbins, the original voice of Charlie Brown in the Peanuts specials back in the 60s, died on this day last year. I wrote about Peter a couple of times recently and the stories can be found in my Substack archive:
In The Dirty Ghostwriter I explain how I met Peter and tried to help him piece together a manuscript of a memoir (as yet, unpublished). With that essay I include an audio clip of a voicemail Peter left me …
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