Biography
Vance DeBar “Pinto” Colvig was born in Jacksonville, Oregon, Colvig is probably best known as the voice of Disney’s Goofy and the original Bozo the Clown, a part he played for a full decade beginning in 1946.[1] He also provided the voice for Practical Pig, the pig who built the “house of bricks” in the Disney short Three Little Pigs, as well as both Sleepy and Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, and the barks for Pluto the dog.
Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but the Warner Bros. animation studio, Fleischer Studios (Bluto), and MGM, where he voiced a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. Colvig died of lung cancer on October 3, 1967, at age 75. A lifelong smoker, Colvig was one of the pioneers in advocating warning labels about cancer risk on cigarette packages in the United States.
Family and early life
Vance DeBar Colvig was born in Jacksonville, Oregon, on September 11, 1892. His school friends nicknamed him after a spotted horse named “Pinto” because of his freckled face – and just like his freckles, the name stuck for his entire life. Pinto’s childhood home was filled with music and laughter, and he was a clown from birth. As the youngest of seven children, he would do anything to get attention. He learned to make people laugh by making faces and playing pranks. He also spent hours mimicking the sounds around him: a rusty gate, farm animals, sneezes, wind, cars, trains, etc.
He and his brother Don put on song-and-dance minstrel shows at local functions. Along the way he picked up his instrument of choice, the clarinet, and soon played well enough to join the town band. It was the clarinet that got Pinto into show business when he was 12. Visiting Portland’s “Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition” with his father William, he was magnetized by “The Crazy House” on the Midway where a huckster attracted the crowd with a bass drum and shouts of “Hubba Hubba!” Pinto told the man he could play “squeaky” clarinet and ran back to the hotel to get his instrument. He was hired on the spot and given some oversized old clothes and a derby and, for the first time, white makeup and a clown face.
The man told Pinto, “Now you look like a real bozo” (“bozo” was a name given to hobo or tramp clowns in those days). Pinto’s act was to play a screechy clarinet while distorting his face and crossing his eyes at the high notes. He later recalled, “I never was able to get circuses and carnivals out of my blood after that.” He went to school during the winter and worked in the circus and vaudeville in the spring.
While studying art at Oregon Agricultural College (now Oregon State University) and playing with the college band, he became known for his clever cartoons in student publications, his funny “chalk talk” performances improvising a monologue while quickly sketching cartoons, and his unconventional lifestyle. He never took his class courses seriously and his college career ended abruptly in the spring of 1913 when he accepted an offer to do his chalk talks for the prestigious Pantages vaudeville circuit and wound up in Seattle, Washington. There he joined a circus band and traveled throughout the country struggling to make ends meet.
Career outline
In 1914 he landed a job as a newspaper cartoonist at the “Nevada Rockroller” in Reno, and later the “Carson City News” in Carson City. By the spring of 1915 his cartooning was going well but the lure of the circus was too strong. When the Al G. Barnes Circus came through Carson City, Pinto dropped everything and joined the troupe, once again clowning and playing his clarinet in the circus band.
In those days circuses closed down each winter and Pinto returned to newspaper cartooning wherever he could find a job. While working on a Portland newspaper between seasons in 1916, he met and married Margaret Bourke Slavin, putting an end to his vagabond life as a circus performer. With a family to support, Pinto and Margaret moved to San Francisco, where he returned to the newspaper business writing and drawing cartoons full-time at “The Bulletin” and later the “San Francisco Chronicle”.
His cartoon series, “Life on the Radio Wave,” which poked fun at the way the newly introduced radio was influencing people’s lives, was syndicated nationally by United Features Syndicate. He greatly enjoyed cartooning and considered it another form of clowning. “A cartoonist,” he said, “is just a clown with a pencil.” While Pinto toiled daily to meet newspaper commitments, he began to spend evenings experimenting with the animation of cartoons and eventually set up his own studio, Pinto Cartoon Comedies Co., where he created one of the first animated silent films in color called “Pinto’s Prizma Comedy Revue (1919)”.
In 1922, after realizing that San Francisco was not the place to break into the movie business, he moved his family to Hollywood. There he would be able to continue his animation work and find a wealth of other things that he could do. He was overjoyed one day to get an offer to join Mack Sennett, the reigning king of movie comedies, who had developed one of the most successful studios of the day, the Keystone Film Co., home of the famous Keystone Kops, Charles Chaplin and many others. Sennett needed an experienced animator for his own films, but Pinto soon found himself also writing and acting in comedies and dramas.
In 1928 he teamed up with his friend Walter Lantz to create an early talking cartoon, “Bolivar, the Talking Ostrich (1928)”, but unlike Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie (1928), it failed to become a hit. Pinto and Lantz, who would later be the voice of Woody Woodpecker, gave up and went to larger studios. Disney, who was making “Mickey Mouse” and “Silly Symphony” cartoons, signed Pinto to a contract in 1930. Pinto worked on stories, co-wrote songs such as the lyrics to “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” and was the original voice of animated characters such as Goofy and Pluto, Grumpy and Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and the Practical Pig in “Three Little Pigs.” Disney cartoonists copied many of Pinto’s facial expressions while drawing animal characters for the cartoons.
He left Disney in 1937 following a fallout with Walt and Disney proceeded to reuse his old voice tracks. Meanwhile, Pinto freelanced voices and sound effects for Warner Bros. cartoons, sang for some of the Munchkins during Dorothy’s arrival scenes in MGM’s The Wizard of Oz (1939), and also joined Max Fleischer Studios in Miami, where he did the voice of Gabby in Gulliver’s Travels (1939) and the blustering of Bluto in “Popeye the Sailor” cartoons. He returned to Disney in 1941 and continued to freelance for them and on radio programs for others. He was the original Maxwell automobile on Jack Benny’s show, the hiccupping horse for Dennis Day, and a variety of voices for “Amos `n Andy.” His live radio experience and contacts introduced him to the recording industry.
He did several albums before encountering one of his best-known characters, Bozo the Clown. It was 1946 when Capitol Records in Hollywood hired Alan Livingston as a writer/producer. His initial assignment was to create a children’s record library, for which he came up with the soon-to-be-legendary Bozo character. He wrote and produced a popular series of storytelling record-album and illustrative read-along book sets, beginning with the September 1946 release of “Bozo at the Circus.” His record-reader concept, which enabled children to read and follow a story in pictures while listening to it, was the first of its kind.
The Bozo image was a composite design of Livingston’s, derived from a variety of clown pictures and then given to an artist to turn into comic-book-like illustrations. Livingston then hired Pinto to portray the character. “Pinto came in,” Livingston recalls, “and turned out to be a very jolly, likable fellow with the kind of warm, folksy voice I wanted. He didn’t talk down to children.” Not only did Livingston get a perfect Bozo voice in Pinto, he also got most of the animals and odd creatures under the sea and in outer space, all for the price of one.
On some of the records, Pinto provided as many as eight other voices. The series turned out to be a smash hit for Capitol, selling over eight million albums in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The character also became a mascot for the record company and was later nicknamed “Bozo the Capitol Clown.” Pinto, as Bozo, also starred in the very first Bozo television series, “Bozo’s Circus” (1949) on KTTV-Channel 11 (CBS) in Los Angeles, made numerous guest appearances on radio and personal appearance tours all over the country. He especially enjoyed his visits to children’s hospitals and orphanages, according to Pinto, “doin’ my silly stuff to make them laugh.”
Pinto’s Bozo ended in 1956 when Larry Harmon, one of several actors hired by Livingston and Capitol to portray Bozo at promotional appearances, formed a business partnership and bought the licensing rights to the character (excluding the record-readers) from Capitol and Livingston. In 1958 Jayark Films Corp. began distributing Bozo limited-animation cartoons to television stations, along with the rights for each to hire its own live Bozo host. Harmon produced and provided the voice of the character in the cartoons.
On January 5, 1959, Bozo returned to television beginning with a live 30-minute weeknight show on KTLA-Channel 5 in Los Angeles. Although Pinto’s Bozo days were over, it was his son, Vance Colvig Jr., whom KTLA chose as the live Bozo host. Vance’s portrayal and the KTLA show lasted for six years, at which time Harmon bought out his partners and continued to market the character through his Larry Harmon Pictures Corp.
If Pinto had any dark years, they were during World War II. Four of his five sons were of eligible age and his wife felt the dread that millions of mothers felt, which may have complicated an illness that made her a semi-invalid for several years. Pinto took care of her until her death in 1950. In 1963 Pinto received a letter from Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger thanking him for supporting her bill requiring warning labels on cigarette packages. It was a controversial idea at a time when nonsmoking areas were just a dream and America was blue with secondhand smoke. With lungs ravaged by a lifetime of heavy smoking, Pinto did his part to help others become aware of the problem.
On October 3, 1967, Vance Debar “Pinto” Colvig died of lung cancer at the age of 75 in Woodland Hills, California. Vance Jr. donated his and his father’s memorabilia to the Southern Oregon Historical Society in Pinto’s hometown of Jacksonville in 1978. Vance Jr. passed away in 1991. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company honored Pinto Colvig as a “Disney Legend.” On May 28, 2004, he was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Personal style
Throughout his life Pinto was upbeat and cheerful, convinced that laughter was the world’s best medicine. “Sure, there have been kicks in the pants and occasionally an empty gut,” he once said, “but those are the jolts what pushes a guy upward and onward!” His letters, though touching on his philosophy, were never serious but always funny and filled with odd typing effects, extraneous capitalization, underlining, misspellings and strange made-up words.
He also lavished his letters and envelopes with outrageous cartoons and balloons filled with gags. He kept regular correspondence with clown legends Felix Adler, Emmett Kelly, Lou Jacobs and Otto Griebling, and visited “clown alley” whenever a circus came to the Los Angeles area. He especially enjoyed his visits to children’s hospitals and orphanages, according to Pinto, “doin’ my silly stuff to make them laugh
Honors and awards
In 1963 Pinto received a letter from Oregon Senator Maurine Neuberger thanking him for supporting her bill requiring warning labels on cigarette packages. In 1993, the Walt Disney Company honored Pinto Colvig as a “Disney Legend.” Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 2000 On May 28, 2004, he was inducted into the International Clown Hall of Fame in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Filmography
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- Spooks (1930) (voice) …. Hippo
- The Chain Gang (1930) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Moose Hunt (1931) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mickey Steps Out (1931) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Duck Hunt (1932) (voice) …. Pluto
- Barnyard Olympics (1932) (voice) …. Laugh in Crowd
- Mickey’s Revue (1932) (voice) …. Dippy Dawg / Pluto
- Just Dogs (1932) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mickey’s Nightmare (1932) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Whoopee Party (1932) (voice) …. Goofy
- Touchdown Mickey (1932) (voice) …. Goofy
- The Klondike Kid (1932) (voice) …. Goofy / Pluto
- Santa’s Workshop (1932) (voice) (uncredited) …. Santa’s secretary
- Mickey’s Good Deed (1932) (voice) (uncredited) …. Pluto
- The Mad Doctor (1933) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mickey’s Mellerdrammer (1933) (voice) …. Goofy
- Ye Olden Days (1933) (voice) …. Goofy
- Three Little Pigs (1933) (voice) …. Practical Pig
- The Grasshopper and the Ants (1934) (voice) …. Grasshopper
- Playful Pluto (1934) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Big Bad Wolf (1934) (uncredited) …. Practical Pig
- The Wise Little Hen (1934) (voice) (uncredited) …. Peter Pig
- Orphan’s Benefit (1934) (voice) …. Goofy
- Servants’ Entrance (1934) (uncredited) …. Voice of Mustard Pot
- Mickey’s Service Station (1935) (voice) …. Goofy … aka Super Service (USA: 8mm release title)
- The Cookie Carnival (1935) (uncredited) …. Cookie Boy
- Mickey’s Garden (1935) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mickey’s Fire Brigade (1935) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto’s Judgement Day (1935) (voice) …. Pluto
- On Ice (1935) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy / Pluto
- Mickey’s Grand Opera (1936) (voice) …. Pluto
- Three Little Wolves (1936) (voice) …. Practical Pig
- Moving Day (1936) (voice) …. Goofy
- Alpine Climbers (1936) (voice) …. Pluto
- Donald and Pluto (1936) (voice) …. Pluto
- Three Blind Mouseketeers (1936) (voice) (uncredited) …. Tall thin mouseketeer
- Mickey’s Elephant (1936) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mother Pluto (1936) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Worm Turns (1937) (voice) …. Pluto
- Magician Mickey (1937) (voice) …. Goofy
- Moose Hunters (1937) (voice) …. Goofy
- Mickey’s Amateurs (1937) (voice) (uncredited) …. Singing Contestant
- Hawaiian Holiday (1937) (voice) …. Goofy / Pluto
- Clock Cleaners (1937) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto’s Quin-puplets (1937) (voice) …. Pluto
- Donald’s Ostrich (1937) (voice) (uncredited) …. Hortense Ostrich (Hiccoughs)
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (voice) (uncredited) …. Sleepy / Grumpy … aka Walt Disney’s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (USA: poster title)
- Lonesome Ghosts (1937) (voice) …. Goofy
- Boat Builders (1938) (voice) …. Goofy
- Mickey’s Trailer (1938) (voice) …. Goofy
- Polar Trappers (1938) (voice) …. Goofy
- The Fox Hunt (1938) (voice) …. Goofy
- The Pygmy Hunt (1938) (voice) (uncredited) …. Laughing Hyena
- The Whalers (1938) (voice) …. Goofy
- Mickey’s Parrot (1938) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Lone Stranger and Porky (1939) (voice) …. Villain’s Horse … aka The Lone Stranger
- Customers Wanted (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Society Dog Show (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Pluto
- The Practical Pig (1939) (voice) …. Practical Pig
- Donald’s Cousin Gus (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Barking Hot Dog
- Wotta Nitemare (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Ghosks Is the Bunk (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Hobo Gadget Band (1939) (voice) …. Lead Hobo
- Snowman’s Land (1939) (voice) …. Little Mountie
- It’s the Natural Thing to Do (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) (as The Singer Midgets) …. Munchkin
- Jeepers Creepers (1939/II) (voice) …. Ghost
- Gulliver’s Travels (1939) (voice) (uncredited) …. Gabby
- Shakespearian Spinach (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Females Is Fickle (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Jellyfish
- Me Feelins Is Hurt (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Tugboat Mickey (1940) (voice) …. Goofy
- Billposters (1940) (voice) …. Goofy
- Onion Pacific (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Nurse-Mates (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- Fightin Pals (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bluto
- You Can’t Shoe a Horsefly (1940) (uncredited) …. Voices
- King for a Day (1940) (voice) …. Gabby
- The Constable (1940) (voice) …. Gabby
- Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep (1940) (voice) (uncredited) …. Delivery Man
- All’s Well (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- Two for the Zoo (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941) (voice) …. Camel
- Swing Cleaning (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- Canine Caddy (1941) (voice) …. Pluto, the Gopher
- The Reluctant Dragon (1941) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy (segment “How to Ride a Horse”) … aka A Day at Disneys (USA: TV title) … aka Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studio
- Fire Cheese (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- Gabby Goes Fishing (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- It’s a Hap-Hap-Happy Day (1941) (voice) …. Gabby
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941) (voice) (uncredited) …. Mr. Creeper … aka Bugville (USA: alternative title) … aka Hoppity Goes to Town (UK)
- 7 Wise Dwarfs (1941) (voice) (uncredited) …. Doc
- Aloha Hooey (1942) (voice) (uncredited) …. Cecil Crow
- Mickey’s Birthday Party (1942) …. Goofy
- Pluto Junior (1942) (voice) …. Pluto
- Conrad the Sailor (1942) (voice) …. Conrad Cat
- Symphony Hour (1942) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy
- The Army Mascot (1942) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Sleepwalker (1942) (voice) …. Pluto
- Bats in the Belfry (1942) (voice) (uncredited) …. Bats
- Blitz Wolf (1942) (voice) (uncredited) …. Sergeant Pork, the Third Pig
- Saludos Amigos (1942) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy … aka Hello Friends (USA: literal English title)
- Ding Dog Daddy (1942) (voice) …. Dog
- Pluto and the Armadillo (1943) (voice) …. Pluto
- Hop and Go (1943) (voice) (uncredited) …. Claude Hopper
- Private Pluto (1943) (voice) …. Pluto
- One Ham’s Family (1943) (voice) …. Father Pig, Junior Pig, Wolf
- Pass the Biscuits, Mirandy! (1943) (uncredited) …. Mountaineer
- How to Be a Sailor (1944) (voice) …. Goofy
- How to Play Golf (1944) (voice) …. Goofy
- Springtime for Pluto (1944) (voice) …. Pluto
- First Aiders (1944) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Three Caballeros (1944) (uncredited) …. Aracuan Bird
- Tiger Trouble (1945) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy Dog
- Watch (1945) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Eyes Have It (1945) (voice) …. Pluto
- African Diary (1945) (voice) …. Goofy
- Californy er Bust (1945) (voice) …. Goofy
- Canine Casanova (1945) (voice) …. Pluto
- The Legend of Coyote Rock (1945) (voice) …. Pluto
- Swing Shift Cinderella (1945) (voice) (uncredited) …. Wolf … aka Swingshift Cinderella (USA: poster title)
- No Sail (1945) (voice) …. Goofy
- Hockey Homicide (1945) (voice) …. Goofy
- Wild and Woolfy (1945) (voice) …. Slim, Horse … aka Robinson’s Screwball
- Canine Patrol (1945) (voice) …. Pluto
- Pluto’s Kid Brother (1946) (voice) …. Pluto
- In Dutch (1946) (voice) …. Pluto / The Mayor
- Squatter’s Rights (1946) (voice) …. Pluto
- Frank Duck Brings ’em Back Alive (1946) (voice) …. Goofy
- Rescue Dog (1947) (voice) …. Pluto
- Clown of the Jungle (1947) (voice) (uncredited) …. Aracuan Bird
- Crazy with the Heat (1947) (voice) …. Goofy
- Variety Girl (1947) (uncredited) …. Special voice impersonation
- Fun & Fancy Free (1947) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy
- Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947) (voice) …. Goofy
- Mickey’s Delayed Date (1947) (voice) (uncredited) …. Pluto
- Foul Hunting (1947) (voice) …. Goofy
- King-Size Canary (1947) (voice) (uncredited) …. Cat
- Pluto’s Blue Note (1947) (voice) …. Pluto
- They’re Off (1948) (voice) …. Goofy
- The Big Wash (1948) (voice) …. Goofy
- Bill and Coo (1948) (uncredited) …. Singer
- Melody Time (1948) (voice) (uncredited) …. Aracuan Bird
- Pluto’s Purchase (1948) (voice) …. Pluto
- Pluto’s Fledgling (1948) (voice) …. Pluto
- Mickey and the Seal (1948) (voice) …. Pluto
- Tea for Two Hundred (1948) (voice) …. Ants
- Sheep Dog (1949) (voice) …. Pluto
- Goofy Gymnastics (1949) (voice) …. Goofy
- Little Rural Riding Hood (1949) (voice) (uncredited) …. Country Wolf
- Tennis Racquet (1949) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto’s Sweater (1949) (voice) …. Pluto
- Pueblo Pluto (1949) (voice) …. Pluto
- “Bozo’s Circus” (1949) TV series …. Bozo … aka Bozo at the Circus (USA)
- Food for Feudin’ (1950) (voice) …. Pluto
- Pests of the West (1950) (voice) …. Pluto
- Motor Mania (1950) (voice) …. Goofy
- Primitive Pluto (1950) (voice) …. Pluto
- How to Ride a Horse (1950) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto and the Gopher (1950) (voice) …. Pluto / Gopher
- Camp Dog (1950) (voice) …. Pluto
- No Smoking (1951) (voice) …. Goofy
- R’coon Dawg (1951) (voice) …. Pluto
- Tomorrow We Diet! (1951) (voice) …. Goofy
- Plutopia (1951) (voice) …. Pluto
- Home Made Home (1951) (voice) …. Goofy
- Cold Storage (1951) (voice) …. Pluto
- How to Be a Detective (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto’s Christmas Tree (1952) (voice) (uncredited) …. Pluto / Goofy
- Two Weeks Vacation (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Pluto’s Party (1952) (voice) …. Pluto
- Uncle Donald’s Ants (1952) (voice) …. Ants
- Teachers Are People (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Two Gun Goofy (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Man’s Best Friend (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Hello Aloha (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- Father’s Lion (1952) (voice) …. Goofy
- How to Sleep (1953) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy
- How to Dance (1953) (voice) …. Goofy
- Father’s Week-end (1953) (voice) …. Goofy
- For Whom the Bulls Toil (1953) (voice) …. Goofy
- Father’s Day Off (1953) (voice) …. Goofy
- “Matty’s Funday Funnies” (1959) TV series (voice) …. Additional Voices … aka Beany and Cecil (USA: new title) … aka Matty’s Funnies with Beany and Cecil (USA: new title)
- Sleeping Beauty (1959) (voice) (uncredited) …. Maleficent’s goon
- Spare the Rod (1954) (voice) (uncredited) …. Pygmy cannibals
- Aquamania (1961) (voice) …. Goofy
- “The Yogi Bear Show” (1961) TV series …. Chopper (unknown episodes)
- “Disneyland” …. Goofy / … (12 episodes, 1954-1964) … aka Disney’s Wonderful World (USA: new title) … aka The Disney Sunday Movie (USA: new title) … aka The Magical World of Disney (USA: new title) … aka The Wonderful World of Disney (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney Presents (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (USA: new title)
- In Shape with Von Drake (1964) TV episode (voice) …. Goofy
- Man Is His Own Worst Enemy (1962) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy
- The Coyote’s Lament (1961) TV episode (voice) …. Pluto
- A Salute to Father (1961) TV episode (voice) …. Goofy
- How to Relax (1957) TV episode (voice) …. Goofy (7 more)
- “Tom and Jerry” (1965) TV series (voice) (uncredited)
- Goofy’s Freeway Troubles (1965) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy … aka Freewayphobia #2
- Freewayphobia #1 (1965) (voice) …. Goofy … aka Freewayphobia or the Art of Driving the Super Highway (USA: complete title)
- The Man from Button Willow (1965) (voice)
- Mickey’s House of Villains (2001) (V) (voice) …. Goofy (segment “Lonesome Ghosts”)
- Mickey’s Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) (V) (voice) (archive sound) …. Pluto (segment “Pluto’s Christmas Tree”)
- Writer:
- “Matty’s Funday Funnies” (1959) TV series (writer) … aka Beany and Cecil (USA: new title) … aka Matty’s Funnies with Beany and Cecil (USA: new title)
- The Raven (1942) (writer)
- Two for the Zoo (1941) (writer)
- Better Days (1927) (titles)
- The Klynick (1925) (titles)
- Ringling’s Rivals (1925) (titles)
- Six Faces West (1925) (titles)
- Animation Department:
- Not So Quiet (1930) (animator)
- Spooks (1930) (animator) (as ‘Pinto’ Colvig)
- Henpecked (1930) (animator)
- Snappy Salesman (1930) (animator)
- Cold Feet (1930) (animator)
- Singing Sap (1930) (animator)
- The Fowl Ball (1930) (animator)
- The Navy (1930) (animator)
- Mexico (1930) (animator)
- Africa (1930) (animator) (as ‘Pinto’ Colvig)
- Alaska (1930) (animator) … aka Oswald in Alaska (USA)
- Mars (1930) (animator)
- China (1931/I) (animator) (uncredited)
- College (1931) (animator) (uncredited)
- Shipwreck (1931) (animator)
- The Farmer (1931) (animator) (as ‘Pinto’ Colvig)
- The Fireman (1931) (animator)
- The Bandmaster (1931) (animator)
- The Hunter (1931) (animator)
- Soundtrack:
- Variety Girl (1947) (performer: “ROMEOW AND JULICAT”)
- The Wizard of Oz (1939) (performer: “‘Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are’, ‘The House Began To Pitch’, ‘As Mayor of the Munchkin City’, ‘As Coroner, I Must Aver’, ‘Ding Dong The Witch is Dead’, ‘Lullaby League’, ‘Lollipop Guild’ and ‘We Welcome You to Munchkinland'” (uncredited), “Follow the Yellow Brick Road” (uncredited), “You’re Off to See the Wizard” (uncredited))
- Director:
- Mickey’s Amateurs (1937)
- Self:
- “Disneyland” – Disney’s Greatest Villains (1977) TV episode (voice) …. Grumpy/Sleepy/Goofy
- The Truth About Mother Goose (1963) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy
- Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’: Still the Fairest of Them All (2001) (V) (voice) (archive sound)
- “Disneyland” …. Himself (1 episode, 1955) … aka Disney’s Wonderful World (USA: new title) … aka The Disney Sunday Movie (USA: new title) … aka The Magical World of Disney (USA: new title) … aka The Wonderful World of Disney (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney Presents (USA: new title) … aka Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color (USA: new title)
- Cavalcade of Songs (1955) TV episode …. Himself
- “Toast of the Town” (1 episode, 1953) … aka The Ed Sullivan Show (USA: new title)
- Episode #6.22 (1953) TV episode
- Archive Footage:
- “House of Mouse” – House of Scrooge (2002) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Pluto/Additional Voices
- The Mouse Who Came to Dinner (2001) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Additional Voices
- Clarabelle’s Big Secret (2001) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Pluto/Additional Voices
- The Stolen Cartoons (2001) TV episode (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Pluto/Additional Voices
- Goofy About Health (1989) (voice) …. Goofy
- Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Heigh-Ho (1987) (V) (voice) …. Grumpy/Sleepy
- Jiminy Cricket’s Christmas (1986) (V) (voice) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Grumpy/Pluto/Sleepy
- The Walt Disney Comedy and Magic Revue (1985) (V) (uncredited) …. Goofy/Pluto/Practical Pig
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