Patrick Pinney

Patrick Pinney (born June 30, 1952) is an American actor and voice actor.
Pinney has provided voices for a number of animated characters, including Mighty Mouse in the short-lived Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987–1988), Pa Gorg, Uncle Traveling Matt, Flange Doozer, and "Additional Voices" in the animated version of Fraggle Rock, Chico the Bouncer in the hybrid live-action/animated film Cool World (1992), the speaking voice of Painty the Pirate from the opening theme of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present) and Wormguy and Idikiukup in Men in Black: The Series.
He supplied the voice of the Fish Ghoulie in the sequel Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1987) and voiced Stan in the video game The Curse of Monkey Island.
Pinney has appeared on the stop-motion animation series Robot Chicken as He-Man, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester, Monterey Jack, Ted Kennedy, Dick Cheney, and O. J. Simpson.
==Background==
He attended college at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where he had many friends including assistant director Michele Panelli Venetis and San Francisco Bay area costumer Alison Barnwell Morris, with whom he costarred in "The Deputy" at the UOP Rotunda Theatre.
He studied theatre along with producer / director Dennis Jones at University of the Pacific in Stockton where the two of them were room mates. As well as performing in theaters in the United States, he had also done theaters in Europe. He came to Los Angeles. Some time later, he played three characters in a play. Afterwards he was approached by a producer who offered him work in animation. It was a role in a Hanna-Barbera animation. From there he made the transition from a serious stage actor to voice.
He has also done work on Harry & the Hendersons.
==Voice-over career==
In the late 1980s, he worked on a number of projects. One was providing the voice for Mainframe in G.I. Joe: The Movie in 1987. A couple of years later, he was involved in another project. It was on the X-Men in 1989. He provided the voice for Wolverine in Pryde of the X-Men which was the pilot episode for the cartoon series. He had given the character an Australian sounding accent instead of the Canadian one that was expected. An article by Simone Pozzoli for the Italian language OverNewsMagazine Italian stated, molti oggi la vedono come “una profezia” which meant that Pinney's Australian accent imterperatation of the character would be seen as prophetic as Hugh Jackman has played the part. He is the first voice actor to provide the voice for the Wolverine character in animation. He has worked in the Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells directed animation An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. From 1997 to 2001, he worked on Men in Black: The Series in episodes which include The Long Goodbye Syndrome in 1997, The Buzzard Syndrome, also in 1997 and The Big Bad Bug Syndrome in 1998.
==Filmography==
===Film (animated)===
Year	Title 	Role 	Note(s)
1986	G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise! 	Mainframe 	Television film
1987	G.I. Joe: The Movie 	Mainframe 	Direct-to-video
1987	The Chipmunk Adventure 	Additional voices 	Credited as Pat Pinney
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Additional voices 	
1990	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp	Additional voices 	
1991	Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College 	Fish Ghoulie 	Direct-to-video
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Additional voices 	
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West 	Additional voices 	
1992	Aladdin 	Additional voices 	
1993	Look Who's Talking Now 	Dog Voices 	
1995	Toy Story 	Additional voices 	
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	Guards, Gypsies, Additional voices	
1997	Hercules 	Cyclops 	
1998	Mulan 	Additional voices 	
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Additional voices 	
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	Additional voices 	
2002	Treasure Planet 	Additional voices 	
2003	Brother Bear 	Additional voices 	
===Television (animated)===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Note(s)
1989 	X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men 	Wolverine 	TV Short
1997 	Spider-Man 	The Thing / Ben Grimm 	2 Episodes
1999 	The Wild Thornberrys 	MacWhirter, Radio Voice 	Ep. "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yeti"
2000 	Johnny Bravo 	Bailiff, Defense Attorney, Juror #1 	Ep. "I Dream of Johnny/One Angry Bravo/Carnival of the Darned"
2003 	My Life as a Teenage Robot	Dismal, Soggy, Rich Guy 	Ep. "Attack of the 5 1/2 Ft. Geek/Doom with a View"
2007-present	Robot Chicken 	He-Man, Prince Adam, Terminator, Sylvester the Cat, Carl Fredricksen	14 Episodes
2018 	Trolls: The Beat Goes On! 	Nagus 	Ep. "Royal Review/Funishment"
==Acting roles (physical)==
===Film and television===
Even though Pinney's on screen / physical acting roles are secondary to his voice over career, he has appeared in a few television and film roles. In 1979, he played the part of the Captain of the guards in the Ken Annakin directed feature film The Fifth Musketeer which starred Beau Bridges, Sylvia Kristel and Ursula Andress. In 1983, he played a heckler in the God Child/Curtain Call episode of Fantasy Island. The episode which was directed by Ted Lange also featured Cassandra Peterson. He appeared in The Terminator in 1984. In 2014, he played the part of Eugene Dugan in Atwill Web Series which was directed by Charles Dennis.
===Stage===
In June 2015, Pinney appeared at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in the play Unnecessary Farce. The play also starred Daniel Hines, Kristin Howell, Ty Smith and Nick Ferruci. The story which was set in a small town motel with an embezzling mayor with undercover police trying to catch him. Pinney played the part of a 6.4 Scottish assassin. The reviewer for the Sierra Lodestar magazine said that audiences might recognize Pinney from his part as Painty the Pirate. Pinney and director Dennis Jones have a history that goes back to 1972 when they worked together at the theatre company for Fallon House.
==Filmography list==
===Acting roles (screen)===
Film
Title 	Role 	Director 	Year
Chicanery 	Mannheim Hofflung 	Charles Dennis 	2014
Atwill Web SeriesEpisode: Judge Joanie 	Eugene Dugan 	Charles Dennis 	2014
Dead Men Don't Die 	Announcer 	Malcolm Marmorstein	1990
The Terminator 	Bar customer 	James Cameron 	1984
Fantasy IslandEpisode" God Child / Curtain Call	Heckler 	Ted Lange 	1983
The Fifth Musketeer 	Captain of the Guards	Ken Annakin 	1979
===Acting roles (stage) (Selective)===
Film
Title 	Role 	Director 	Venue 	Year 	Notes #
The Golden Fleece 	 	 	The Hub Theatre 	Sunday August 5, 2007	Adaptation of A.R. Gurney's The Golden FleeceCo-starring with Becky Bonar
The Alchemist of Cecil Street	 	Charles Dennis	Radio Ranch, Sherman Oaks, California	March 31, 2009 	
Tolstoy Was Never There 	Brian Mayhew	Charles Dennis	 	2010 	Cast included Kevin Dunn, Ed Begley Jr.,John O'Hurley, Ron Orbachand Enn Reitel
Unnecessary Farce 	Todd 	Dennis Jones 	Sierra Repertory Theatre 	2015 	
Category:1952 births
Category:Living people
Category:Male actors from Los Angeles
Category:American male voice actors
Category:American male video game actors