He lent his voice to a character in the album 'The Story of Halloween Horror' in 1977. In 1974, Cullen was the announcer and a series regular (with Ted Zeigler and Billy Van) on The Hudson Brothers Razzle Dazzle Show. įrom 1971 to 1974, he, Zeigler and Billy Van were series regulars on The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. From 1967 to 1969, he was the announcer for Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. He honed his voice skills by working as a radio announcer, notably in his home town of Montreal on (then) MOR station CKGM doing the overnight and weekend swing shifts. In 1968, he and Joan Stuart appeared as 'Giles' and 'Penelope' in L'Anglaise, a recurring segment about a French-Canadian man with an English-Canadian wife, on the CBC Radio comedy series, Funny You Should Say That.Ĭullen played a French-Canadian astronaut character named Commander Bi Bi Latuque alongside Ted Zeigler for the 1969 children's show, The Buddies on CFCF-TV in Montreal. His brother, Larry Cullen, was a retired Captain in the United States Marine Corps, and helped inspire the voice of Optimus Prime. He is a member of the first graduating class of the National Theatre School of Canada, which he graduated in 1963. Cullen attended Regiopolis-Notre Dame Catholic Secondary School. He has three siblings: Michaela, Sonny, and Larry.
Cullen was born on July 28, 1941, in Montreal, Quebec, to Henry and Muriel (née McCann) Cullen.
