Mexican American Animation Legend

Remember Charlie Brown? Did you know 🇲🇽 Mexican American, José Cuauhtémoc “Bill” Melendez was not only the voice of Snoopy and Woodstock but produced and director more than 50 Peanuts specials from 1965 to 2006. Born in Hermosillo, Mexico 🇲🇽, and raised in Arizona and California, he impressed Peanuts creator, Charles M. Schulz who brought him on to his team. Bill would receive residual checks for voicing Snoopy until his death in 2008 at the age of 91.💫🎄