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name: "Peter Behn"
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roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 July 1934"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:58:19.348601+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Peter Behn

Actor. Born 4 July 1934 in San Francisco, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 July 1934, San Francisco, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Peter C. Behn
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7172751, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0066951/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/31704

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Bambi*](https://film.one/film/bambi.md) (86)

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## Biography

Peter Behn is an American former child actor and voice actor, also credited as Peter C. Behn. He provided the uncredited voice of young Thumper in Walt Disney's 1942 animated film *Bambi*.

His father was screenwriter Harry Behn. Behn began recording his lines at the age of four, with sessions continuing over approximately two years. After the film he left acting and worked as a real estate broker. He later appeared in documentaries and interviews about *Bambi*, including a joint appearance with Donnie Dunagan on *The View* in 2011.

*Sources: imdb.com, laughingplace.com, geekdad.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Bambi* (1942), Fi1m 86, as Young Thumper (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/bambi.md)

## Also known for

- *Once Upon a Studio* (2023), Thumper (voice) (archive sound)

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