Pinto Colvig

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 1944 until his death in 1967. He also provided the voices of Pluto from 1932 to 1937 and again from 1941 to 1961, 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 didn't 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 didn't 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.
A lifelong smoker, Colvig was one of the pioneers in advocating warning labels about cancer risk on cigarette packages. He died of lung cancer in 1967 and was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.
==Writing credits==
Year	Film 	Position
1932	Mickey's Revue 	Story and voice - uncredited
1932	The Whoopee Party 	Story and voice - uncredited
1932	Touchdown Mickey 	Story and Voice - uncredited
1932	The Klondike Kid 	Story and voice - uncredited
1933	The Steeple-Chase 	Story and voice - uncredited
1933	Three Little Pigs 	Writer and voice
1934	The Grasshopper and the Ants	Story and voice - uncredited
1935	The Cookie Carnival 	Writer and voice
1935	Music Land 	Writer and voice
1935	Broken Toys 	Writer and voice
1937	Mickey's Amateurs 	Writer and voice
1938	Merbabies 	Writer
==Roles==
Goofy-Cartoons-this-dogs-been-around-since-1932.png|Goofy(1932–1938, 1944–1965)
Clippluto21.gif|Pluto(1931–1939; 1941–1961)
Mickey Mouse Disney 1.png|Mickey Mouse(Mickey's Man Friday, native mask voice)
907988-orazio large.jpg|Horace Horsecollar(The Whoopee Party)
Pete Disney Mickey Mouse official pose .jpg|Pete(Singing voice in Mickey's Amateurs)
Clipgrumpysitting2.gif|Grumpy(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party)
Sleepy Dwarf.jpg|Sleepy(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Dopey image.png|Dopey (hiccups)(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
373327 1265551448896 full.jpg|Doc(Seven Wise Dwarfs)
Pinocchio-pinocchio-4947895-960-720.jpg|Cleo(Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party)
Three little pigs.jpg|Practical Pig(The Three Little Pigs franchise and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party)
The Big Bad Wolf.png|Big Bad Wolf(sheep and fuller brushman voices, original 1933 dialogue)
Hop the Grasshopper.jpg|Hop the Grasshopper(The Grasshopper and the Ants)
Tumblr lstyyslw1K1r2i7nxo3 400.jpg|Salty the Seal(Mickey's Circus, Pluto's Playmate, Rescue Dog, and Mickey and the Seal)
B5oFl-DCQAAU8Mm.jpg-large.jpg|Aracuan Bird(The Three Caballeros, Clown of the Jungle, and Melody Time)
File:Captain Hook Transparent.png|Captain Hook (yells, original film)
16807.jpg|Cannibal Chieftain(Trader Mickey)
Wt05.jpg|Potion(The Worm Turns)
Colonelrolfrolfe.jpg|Col. Rolf Rolfe(The Steeple-Chase)
Mickey's Garden-70.jpg|Grasshopper(Mickey's Garden)
Joegiraffe.jpg|Joe Giraffe(Elmer Elephant)
Hobo.png|Hobo Cookie(The Cookie Carnival)
1948-tea-2.jpg|Ants(Tea for Two Hundred and Uncle Donald's Ants)
1954-pygmees-2.jpg|Pygmy Cannibals(Spare the Rod)
Sleeping-disneyscreencaps com-1052.jpg|Some of Maleficent's Goons(Sleeping Beauty)
Alice in Wonderland with a bird.jpg|Flamingos(Alice in Wonderland)
Alice in Wonderland (1951) - Umbrella Vultures.jpg|Umbrella Vultures(Alice in Wonderland)
50210.jpg|Thunderclap (screams)(Morris, the Midget Moose)
Tve27383-62-1007.jpg|Tall Thin Mouseketeer(Three Blind Mouseketeers)
Tve27383-19371210-1183.jpg|Hortense Ostrich (hiccups)(Donald's Ostrich)
089-013body.jpg|Prosecutor(Who Killed Cock Robin?)
Char 43611.jpg|Ichabod Crane (screams)(The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad)
Adelbertsfather.jpg|Adelbert's Father(Mickey's Good Deed)
Mickeys man friday 5large.jpg|Natives(Mickey's Man Friday)
Mickey's Pal Pluto 2.jpg|Pluto's Angel(Mickey's Pal Pluto)
==Trivia==
*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.
==Gallery==
Colvigvancedebabio.jpg|Colvig holding a Goofy figure.
pinto-disney-howl-880.jpg|Colvig recording some dialogue at the Disney Studios.
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rocketeer-7-web.jpg|Colvig with Clarence Nash recording some dialogue at the Disney Studios.
AfricanDiary0001.jpg|Pinto Colvig with Jack Kinney.
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pinto-studio.png|Colvig with his colleagues at the Animated Film Corp.
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Cavalcade of Songs writing session.JPG|L-R: Colvig, John Sibley, Erdman Penner, Frank Thomas (seated), Walt Disney, Ward Kimball in "Cavalcade of Songs".
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