Joaquin Garay

Joaquin Aguilar Garay was a Mexican-American voice actor and singer, best known for being the voice of the rooster Panchito Pistoles in the 1945 Disney animated feature film The Three Caballeros. He also narrated the classic Goofy short For Whom the Bulls Toil (1953).
Born in El Oro, Mexico, Garay came to America at eleven months. He was a well-known radio performer in the 1940s, and opened the popular Copacabana nightclub in September 1941 as well as hosted shows and performed there too. A night of one of those performance can be heard on his album A Night at Joaquin Garay's Copacabana. He also appeared in It Happened One Night with Clark Gable, singing "The Man on the Flying Trapeze".
He gained the role of Panchito Pistoles in 1944. There was concern if his voice was authentic enough. Living the U.S. all of his life, Garay did not retain much of his native accent. While the executives were impressed with his singing voice, they hired vocal and actor Felipe Turich to help Garay with diction. However, Disney's "foreign expert", Jack Cutting, decided to use Turich as Panchito's speaking voice for the Spanish dub while Garay sang the songs. However, Garay did manage to voice the role for the Italian dub.
Following his work on The Three Caballeros, Garay continued to appear in films, like Crisis, Saddle Tramp, Lightning Strikes Twice, Fast Company, and Latin Lovers, as well as television guest spots in shows, like The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, Sanford and Son, and Mannix.
Garay died on September 13, 1990 in Los Angeles, California.
==Role==
Panchito Pistoles original.jpg|Panchito Pistoles(The Three Caballeros)
==Trivia==
*His son Joaquin Garay III appeared in Herbie Goes Bananas as Paco.
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Category:Males
Category:1910s births
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Category:American people
Category:Hispanic and Latino people
Category:Mexican people
Category:Voice actors
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Category:Radio actors
Category:The Three Caballeros
Category:Goofy
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