Pinto Colvig

Pinto Colvig
Background information
Born	Vance DeBar Colvig September 11, 1892 Jacksonville, Oregon, United States
Died	October 3, 1967 (aged 75) Woodland Hills, California, United States
Cause of death	Lung cancer
Nationality	American
Alternate names	Dean of Hollywood Voicemen
Occupation	Actor, voice actor, comedian, newspaper cartoonist, circus performer, screenwriter, animator
Years active	1925-1965
Family information
Spouse	Margaret Slavin (1916-1950; her death) Peggy Allaire (1952-1967; his death)
Children	Vance Jr., William, Byington, Bourke, and Courtney

Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig was a vaudeville American actor, voice actor, comedian, newspaper cartoonist, circus performer, screenwriter, and animator who was the story man at the Walt Disney Studio, 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 1940 until his retirement in 1965.

He also provided the voices of Pluto from 1931 to 1961, Grumpy and Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Practical Pig in The Three Little Pigs, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and other classic characters.

Disney Roles

Goofy
(1932–38; 1940–65)

Pluto
(1931–39; 1941–61)

Pete
Singing voice in Mickey's Amateurs

Grumpy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party

Sleepy
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Dopey (hiccups)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Doc
7 Wise Dwarfs

Cleo
(1954)

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Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
(1930–1931)

Practical Pig
The Three Little Pigs

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Hop the Grasshopper

Salty the Seal

Aracuan Bird

Cannibal chieftain
Trader Mickey

Col. Rolf Rolfe

Grasshopper
Mickey's Garden

Joe Giraffe

Hobo Cookie

Ants
Tea for Two Hundred and Uncle Donald's Ants

Pygmy Cannibals
Spare the Rod

Some of Maleficent's Goons
Sleeping Beauty

Flamingos
Alice in Wonderland

W.C. Fields Doll
Broken Toys

Tall thin mouseketeer
Three Blind Mouseketeers

Hortense Ostrich
Donald's Ostrich

Prosecutor
Who Killed Cock Robin?

Ichabod Crane (screams)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad

Little Louie
Hook, Lion and Sinker

Gallery

Colvig holding a Goofy figure

Colvig recording his lines at the Disney Studios

Colvig with Clarence Nash recording their lines at the Disney Studios

Pinto Colvig with Jack Kinney

Colvig with his colleagues at the Animated Film Corp

Trivia

• When Colvig left Disney studios in 1939, Disney reused his vocal effect Goofy yells, yelps and screams for several Goofy cartoons and others from the late 1930s until the 1950s. They were reused again for Goofy's Fantasy On Parade float in the 1966 TV show Disneyland Around the Seasons.
• His son, Vance Colvig, took his father to Miami and he's giving the contract back to the office after he refused with Walt Disney about Society Dog Show on Public Hero No. 1 for Pluto. He and his son went to Florida to find the Disney Park to changed the name, Disneyland and Walt Disney World.
• When Colvig returned to Disney studios on March 26, 1941, as he is having a problem about Art Babbitt fights over with Disney. He's using the voice of Pluto in Lend a Paw and Canine Caddy. On May 29, 1941, Disney animators' strike with Disney before he's taking over to Walt Disney's office, as he told Disney animators' strike to stop and go home. Colvig blamed Babbitt for going home and never returned to Disney and hiring Ward Kimball, Fred Moore, Charles Nichols, Clyde Geronimi, Norman Ferguson, and many more Disney animators to stay with him.
• Colvig was the original Bozo the Clown. Colvig had 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.