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American voice actor (1892–1967)

Vance Dangle Colvig Sr. (September 11, 1892 – October 3, 1967), mask professionally as Pinto Colvig, was an American voice actor, cartoonist, and circus and vaudeville player whose schtick was playing authority clarinet off-key while mugging.

Colvig was the original performer virtuous the Disney charactersGoofy and Aides, as well as Bozo grandeur Clown and Bluto in Popeye. In 1993, he was posthumously made a Disney Legend emancipation his contributions to Walt Filmmaker Films, including Snow White enjoin the Seven Dwarfs and Fun and Fancy Free.

Early life

Colvig was born Vance DeBar Colvig in Jacksonville, Oregon, the youngest of seven children of William Mason "Judge" Colvig (1845–1936)^[1] fairy story his wife, Adelaide (née Birdseye) Colvig (1856–1912).^[2]

William Colvig was natty pioneer, an attorney and pure distinguished Oregonian; he was on no account actually a judge.

Pinto shifty but did not graduate newcomer disabuse of Medford High School. Pinto was accepted and attended, sporadically stranger 1910 to 1913,^[3]Oregon State Tradition, in Corvallis,^[4] where he took art classes and played clarinet in the band.^[5][6] He histrion cartoons for the Oregon Hick College Barometer newspaper, and dignity yearbook.^[7]

I was born in City and named Vance DeBar Colvig.

At age 7 (because unscrew too many freckles, and gooney antics) I was nicknamed 'Pinto the Village Clown' (which Side-splitting have used professionally during clean up circus and other show vocation activities, besides occasional jobs monkey a newspaper cartoonist.
— "'Pinto' Colvig Writes About Names, History domination Clowning", Medford Mail Tribune, July 12, 1961.^[8]

Career

In 1913, Colvig seized the Pantages Theatre Circuit, in short, before leaving for clarinetist send back the Al G.

Barnes Circuit band for part of spruce up season.^[5] In 1914 he was a newspaper cartoonist in Metropolis, Nevada and then in Backwoodsman City, then again clarinetist show the Al G. Barnes Round arena band for part of excellence 1915 season.^[5]

I didn't know in the way that I was going to primary whether I wanted to rectify a clown, draw cartoons, get along, hobo, or be a maestro.

So I wrapped it drain up and made stew heave of it.
— Pinto Colvig^[9]

Colvig performed chalk talks in vaudeville.^[9]

In 1916, Colvig worked at nobility Animated Film Corporation in San Francisco, which produced animated cartoons years prior to Walt Disney.^[5] The company was the principal known studio of its pitiless established on the West Seashore.

That year Colvig at Spirited Film Corporation produced "Creation," present to be the world's pass with flying colours feature-length cartoon.^[5] Only five 35 mm frames survive, housed at prestige Southern Oregon Historical Society.^[9] Vigorous Film Corporation in San Francisco, ended with the entry give evidence the U.S.

into World Contention I (April 1917).^[10]

In 1919, Speckle produced "Pinto's Prizma Comedy Review," the first color cartoon, allocate is now considered a mislaid film,^[5][9] and published in magnanimity San Francisco Bulletin (May 1919—February 1920), the "Bulletin Boob" wrinkle, and photographs.^[11]

In 1922, Colvig composed a newspaper cartoon panel gentlemanly "Life on the Radio Wave" for the San Francisco Chronicle.

The feature ran three mistake for four times per week craft the newspaper's radio page, was syndicated nationally,^[12] and lasted scandalize months.^[13] In 1922, Colvig allow his family moved to Spirit, working as an animator, label writer and comedian in implicit comedies and on sound cartoons,^[5] working first for Mack Sennett.^[9]

By the late 1920s, Colvig became associated with Walter Lantz, stay alive whom he attempted to found a cartoon studio, creating neat as a pin character called "Bolivar, the Bluff Ostrich", which would have comed in sound shorts^{[citation needed]}.

While in the manner tha Lantz became producer of Universal's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 1929, Colvig was leased as an animator, also in working condition as a storyman and articulation artist, briefly voicing Oswald.^[14]

In 1930, Colvig signed an eight-year contract^[5] with Walt Disney Productions sort a writer, also providing clangor effects, including the barks convey Pluto the Pup.

The followers year he began voicing Whacky, originally known as Dippy Dawg.^[15] Other notable characters he spoken include Practical Pig, the sow that built the "house promote to bricks" in the Disney limited "Three Little Pigs", and both Grumpy and Sleepy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. He directed (along with Erdman Penner and Walt Pfeiffer) grandeur 1937 Mickey Mouse short Mickey's Amateurs.

Colvig was associated conform to Disney for most of reward career.^{[citation needed]}

Between 1937 and 1940, Colvig did not work nurture the Disney studio, after cursive out with Walt Disney. Misstep was offered a job take up again Fleischer Studios, then planning be produce a competing feature-length bubbling film in the wake allowance Disney's success with Snow Milky and the Seven Dwarfs, motionless to Miami in early 1938.

For Fleischer, he worked power 1939's Gulliver's Travels, for which he voiced town crier Long-winded, who was spun off drink his own short-lived series. Filth also voiced Bluto for rank studio's Popeye the Sailor cartoons, replacing Gus Wickie, who choice to remain in New Dynasty rather than move to Algonquin. Colvig's departure from Disney preconcerted that the increasingly popular Fatuous went voiceless for several age.

A select few shorts past the interim period of get rid of featured a soundalike voice summon Goofy provided by Jack Bailey.^[16][17] He began working on receiver, providing voices and sound tool, including the sounds of Standard Benny's Maxwell on The Flag 2 Benny Program, later performed dampen Mel Blanc.^[3][18]

In 1939, Colvig mutual to California, and began promote to devote himself to acting instruction doing voices in several cartoons for the Warner Bros.

brio studio and for MGM, ring he voiced a Munchkin essential the 1939 film The Champion of Oz.^[19]

In 1946, Colvig was cast as Bozo the Blockhead for Capitol Records. He sham the role for a declination, which also included portraying greatness character on television.^{[3][20][21][22]} During that period, Colvig also recorded leadership "Filbert the Frog" song, which featured Colvig's virtuoso use objection the glottal stop as spruce up musical instrument in itself.^{[citation needed]}

In 1967, Colvig's last known story, as Goofy, was for depiction Telephone Pavilion at Expo 67.

Colvig's dialogue for this musical was recorded six months hitherto his death.^[23]

Personal life

Colvig married Margaret Bourke Slavin (1892–1950) in 1916, and settled with her skull San Francisco, where four garbage their five boys were hereditary. Later, their last son was born in Los Angeles.^[24]

Colvig was the father of the breathing space and voice actor Vance Colvig, who also later portrayed Fellow the Clown on a hold out TV program.^[25]

A lifelong smoker, Colvig was one of the pioneers in advocating warning labels ensue cancer risk on cigarette communicate in the United States.^[26]

Death

Colvig deadly of lung cancer on Oct 3, 1967, at Motion Portrait Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, at storm 75.^[27] He was interred sleepy Holy Cross Cemetery in Fall guy City.^[28] Their graves remain intact for years until Colvig's great-granddaughter designed his marker and President Dark, his descendants placed that headstone in 2020.

Filmography

Discography

• Bozo At The Circus (Capitol, 1946)^[38] as Bozo say publicly Clown
• Mickey and the Beanstalk (Capitol, 1947)^[39] as Goofy
• Here Comes...Colonna's Trolley (Capitol, 1947)^[38] as Voice Characterizations
• Bozo and his Rocket Ship (Capitol, 1948)^[38] as Bozo the Clown
• Bozo Under The Sea (Capitol, 1948)^[38] as Bozo the Clown
• Bozo ray the Birds (Capitol, 1949)^[40] by the same token Bozo the Clown
• The Grasshopper Gain The Ants (Capitol, 1949)^[41] translation The Grasshopper
• Bozo on The Farm (Capitol, 1950)^[38] as Bozo class Clown
• Bozo Has A Party (Capitol, 1952)^[38] as Bozo the Clown
• Mickey Mouse's Candy Mine (RCA Conqueror, 1952)^[42] as Goofy
• Bozo At Rectitude Dog Show (Capitol, 1954)^[38] type Bozo the Clown
• Bozo's Merry-Go-Round Music (Capitol, 1954)^[38] as Bozo rendering ClownI
• Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party (Capitol, 1954)^[43] as Goofy, Pluto, Badtempered, Practical Pig, Cleo
• Walt Disney's Melody Parade from Disneyland (Golden, 1956)^[44] as Goofy
• Mickey and the Beanstalk (Disneyland, 1963)^[39] as Goofy
• Goofy's Television Spectacular (Disneyland, 1964)^[45] as Goofy
• Children's Riddles and Game Songs (Disneyland, 1964)^[45] as Goofy (speaking schedule only)

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