Pinto Colvig
Pinto Colvig was initiated into show business on the carnival circuit via his talent for playing the clarinet and his ability to ham it up while doing so. In the off-time from attending Oregon State University (then known as Oregon Agricultural College), Pinto would perform in the circus and in vaudeville. It was at school that his second career as a cartoonist first blossomed, in the college newspaper. He moved his family to Hollywood in the early 1920s and found work with Mack Sennett's Keystone Studios as an animator. This turned into acting and writing work as well. In 1928, he met fellow cartoonist Walter Lantz (later of "Woody Woodpecker" fame) and the two began collaborating. The lure of the larger animation studios was too great, however, and Pinto was hired on at Disney where he voiced such notable characters as Goofy, Pluto, and the dwarfs Grumpy and Sleepy. After a falling out with Walt Disney, he ventured on to Warner Brothers MGM (where he sang as a Munchkin in "The Wizard of Oz"), and the Max Fleischer Studio (where he voiced Bluto in the "Popeye" cartoons). He returned to freelance at Disney for many years and was also integral in developing the character of Bozo the Clown with producer Alan Livingston at Capital Records. He was the first actor to portray the clown on television. A longtime smoker, Colvig passed away from lung cancer at the age of 75 .
Filmography
Movies
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrating Mickey: The True Original (OV) | Unknown (Voice) | - | 2018 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Rootin' Tootin' Roundup | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1990 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Man From Button Willow |
Abner Hawkins/ |
- | 1965 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Aquamania | Goofy (Mr. X) (Voice) | - | 1961 |
90% |
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Sleeping Beauty | Maleficent's goon (uncredited) (Voice) | $11.6M | 1959 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pluto's Party | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1952 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Home Made Home | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1951 |
No Score Yet |
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Pluto: Food for Feudin' | Pluto (Character) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Ride a Horse | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pests of the West | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Wonder Dog | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1950 |
No Score Yet |
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1949 |
No Score Yet |
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Bone Bandit | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pluto's Purchase | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey Down Under | Pluto (Character) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey and the Seal | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1948 |
75% |
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Melody Time | Aracuan Bird (Voice) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Tea for Two Hundred | Ants (Voice) | - | 1948 |
No Score Yet |
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Rescue Dog | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Mickey's Delayed Date | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1947 |
No Score Yet |
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Double Dribble | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Squatter's Rights | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Purloined Pup | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1946 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | How to Play Football | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Batty Baseball | Pitcher (Voice) | - | 1944 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | One Ham's Family |
Father Pig/ |
- | 1943 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Private Pluto | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1943 |
82% |
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Saludos Amigos | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Blitz Wolf | Sgt. Pork (Voice) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Bats in the Belfry | Bats (Voice) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Pluto Junior | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1942 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | T-Bone for Two | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1942 |
71% |
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Mr. Bug Goes to Town | Mr. Creeper (uncredited) (Voice) | - | 1941 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Society Dog Show | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1939 |
69% |
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Gulliver's Travels | Gabby (Voice) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Goofy and Wilbur | Unknown (Voice) | - | 1939 |
No Score Yet |
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Boat Builders | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Whalers | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey's Parrot | Pluto (Character) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Polar Trappers | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Fox Hunt | GoofY (Voice) | - | 1938 |
No Score Yet |
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Magician Mickey | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Clock Cleaners | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1937 |
97% |
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs |
Sleepy/ |
- | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Lonesome Ghosts | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet |
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Hawaiian Holiday | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Moose Hunters | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1937 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Three Little Wolves | Practical Pig (Voice) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Donald and Pluto | Pluto (Voice) | - | 1936 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | On Ice |
Goofy / |
- | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dancing on the Moon | Unknown (Character) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Mickey's Kangaroo | Pluto's Whimpers (Voice) | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Cookie Carnival |
Cookie Boy (Voice), Screenwriter |
- | 1935 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Music Land | Screenwriter | - | 1935 |
No Score Yet |
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The Grasshopper and the Ants | Grasshopper (Voice) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Big Bad Wolf | Practical Pig (Voice) | - | 1934 |
No Score Yet |
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Three Little Pigs | Practical Pig (Voice) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Building a Building | Pegleg Pete (Voice) | - | 1933 |
No Score Yet |
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Santa's Workshop | Santa's Secretary (Voice) | - | 1932 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Touchdown Mickey | Goofy (Voice) | - | 1932 |
TV
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No Score Yet | No Score Yet | BLAM! |
Unknown (Character), Unknown (Voice) |
2009 2016 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Disney's Wonderful World | Goofy (Voice) | 1979 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | The Tex Avery Show | Unknown (Voice) | 1949 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Celebrating Mickey | Unknown (Voice) |