Sky-Byte Voice Actor Peter Spellos Dies at Age 69

Monday, November 20th, 2023 5:33AM CST

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It's with a heavy heart that we report on the passing of Peter Spellos at age 69 of pancreatic cancer. Spellos is probably best known among Transformers fans as the voice of Robots in Disguise's 2023 fan nominated Hall of Fame inductee Sky-Byte. Spellos would have also been familiar to fans of late '90s and '00s TV anime in the west as Monev the Gale in Trigun, Gilliam in Outlaw Star, Hiroshi Rara in Duel! Parallel Trouble Adventure, Bartley Asprius in Code Geass, Whamon in the Digimon franchise (among many other voices), plus Sagat in Street Figher II: The Animated Movie and various voices in Naruto, Lupin III, Fist of the North Star, and Gundam among many others. He was also a guest at BotCon 2002.

The news of his passing was posted to Facebook by his long time friend and fellow actor Fred Olen Ray. Thanks to Kuhlio of the Seibertron Twincast Podcast for bringing this to our attention.

Credit(s): Fred Olen Ray on Facebook

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Re: Sky-Byte Voice Actor Peter Spellos Dies at Age 69 (2173608)
Posted by BW Megatron on November 20th, 2023 @ 6:09am CST

Say it is not so!
This is very tragic news.
His life has ended.

Re: Sky-Byte Voice Actor Peter Spellos Dies at Age 69 (2173613)
Posted by Quantum Surge on November 20th, 2023 @ 10:21am CST

Rest in peace, Spellos
We will never forget you
You are a legend

Re: Sky-Byte Voice Actor Peter Spellos Dies at Age 69 (2173616)
Posted by Sabrblade on November 20th, 2023 @ 11:37am CST

In his memory:

Re: Sky-Byte Voice Actor Peter Spellos Dies at Age 69 (2173621)
Posted by Silver Wind on November 20th, 2023 @ 4:42pm CST

He really brought the Sky-Byte character to life through his voice-acting, something I have never forgotten even all these decades later. My condolences to his family.