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Pinto Colvig. Vance DeBar Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), known professionally as Pinto Colvig, was an American voice actor, cartoonist, and circus and vaudeville performer whose schtick was playing the clarinet off-key while mugging. Colvig was the original performer of the Disney characters Goofy and Pluto, as well as ...
Pinto Colvig was a versatile and talented performer who worked in circus, vaudeville, cartooning, animation and voice acting. He was the original voice of Goofy, Pluto and dozens of other characters in Disney films and cartoons.
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Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig, Sr. was a vaudeville American actor, voice actor, comedian, newspaper cartoonist, circus performer, screenwriter, and animator, who was the story man at Walt Disney Productions, perhaps better known for his voice work. His most famous for his Disney role was as the original voice of Goofy from 1932 to 1938, and again from 1941 until his death in 1967. He also provided the voices of Pluto from 1932 to 1937 and again from 1954 to 1957, Grumpy and Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs, and other classic characters.
Born in Jacksonville, Oregon; one of seven children, he attended, but did not graduate from Medford High School. However, Colvig was accepted and attended, sporadically from 1910 to 1913, Oregon Agricultural College, in Corvallis, where he took art classes and played clarinet in the band as well as drawing cartoons for the Oregon Agricultural College Barometer newspaper, and the yearbook.
From 1913 to 1922, Colvig worked as a cartoonist and in various performances outlets including the Al G. Barnes Circus before moving his family to Hollywood. Continuing work as animator and writer for different companies, Colvig eventually obtained an eight-year contract with Walt Disney Productions as a writer and sound effects artist. Between 1937 and 1940, Colvig did not work for the Disney studio, after falling out with Walt Disney and worked with Fleischer Studios, such as the 1939 film Gulliver's Travels before returning to Disney.
He also voiced other characters such as Bluto (Popeye the Sailor), the sounds of Jack Benny's Maxwell on The Jack Benny Program, a Munchkin in the 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, and Bozo the Clown for Capitol Records in which he played the role for a full decade, which also included portraying the character on television.
•Colvig was the original Bozo the Clown. He played the role of Bozo from 1946 to 1949.
•He posthumously became a Disney Legend in 1993 and was put in the Clown Hall of Fame in 2004.
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Apr 5, 2021 · Today we explore the life of Pinto Colvig, The Voice of a variety of Disney Characters including Grumpy, Sleepy, Goofy, Pluto, and Practical Pig.Support us!!...
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Pinto Colvig was a musician, artist, and former circus clown who voiced Goofy and many other Disney characters. He also created sound effects for grasshoppers, bugs, hogs, and more with his versatile voice and face.
Pinto Colvig was a voice actor who worked for Disney, Warner Bros., Fleischer Studios and MGM. He voiced Goofy, Pluto, Bozo the Clown, Sleepy and Grumpy in Disney classics and other characters in various cartoons.
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Pinto Colvig. Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (September 11, 1892 - October 3, 1967) was an American actor, voice actor, newspaper cartoonist, circus performer, vaudeville performer, animator, and writer. [1] He was best known as the original Bozo the Clown. [2] He was the voice of Disney's Goofy. In 1993 he was honored with a Disney Legends award. [3]
