Cody Cameron
Cody Cameron is an actor, born 1965.
Cameron works two jobs in animation, and the one people hear is the smaller of them. He is a storyboard artist and director who came up through the Shrek films, boarding them and voicing Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs, and he has kept both halves going for more than twenty years: Pinocchio again in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Mr. Weenie across the Open Season films.
The Pinocchio voice is the memorable one, a strangled falsetto that turns a fairy-tale figure into a nervous liar, and the pigs are a running gag he plays as three separate anxious personalities rather than one noise repeated. As a director his credit is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 in 2013, a sequel that pushed an already silly premise into food-animal puns and knew exactly what it was doing.
The rest is the ordinary furniture of a working animation career: Willie in Madagascar, an elf in Arthur Christmas, Barry in the Cloudy sequel, the Shrek holiday specials. Shrek 5 is listed for 2027. It is not a headline career, and it does not need to be.
Movies (22)
- Shrek (2001)
- Shrek 2 (2004)
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish (2022)
- Madagascar (2005)
- Shrek Forever After (2010)
- Shrek the Third (2007)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
- Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013)
- Open Season (2006)
- Shrek 5 (2027)
- Open Season 2 (2008)
- Shrek the Halls (2007)
- Arthur Christmas (2011)
- Open Season 3 (2010)
- Open Season 3 (2010)
- Scared Shrekless (2010)
- Shrek 3-D (2004)
- Thriller Night (2011)
- Donkey's Christmas Shrektacular (2010)
- Far Far Away Idol (2004)
- Shrek in the Swamp Karaoke Dance Party (2001)
Where to start with Cody Cameron
Listen for Pinocchio in Shrek: the wooden, strangled falsetto is Cameron, and so are all three pigs. Shrek 2 gives the fairy-tale ensemble more to do and is the better film besides.
His directing credit is Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, worth seeing for how far it pushes an already ridiculous premise, and where he also plays Barry. Open Season has Mr. Weenie, the part he has voiced most often. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish brings Pinocchio back two decades on and drops him into a much better film than the later Shrek sequels. Madagascar is the incidental credit, and there is no shame in those: this is a career built on being the fourth voice in the room and being reliable there.
The Shrek films
Pinocchio and the Three Little Pigs across two decades, a voice job he got because he was already in the building storyboarding the thing. He is still doing it, with a fifth film in production.
The films he directed
He directed the second Cloudy film and the third Open Season, and he voices Mr. Weenie across that franchise. Arthur Christmas is the Aardman credit and the best-made film he has worked on.
The shorts and recent work
The holiday shorts and spin-offs, which is where a great deal of animation voice work actually lives. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish is the recent one and looks better than anything else on this list.