Pinto Colvig is the professional pseudonym for Vance Debar Colvig, Sr., an American vaudeville actor, voice actor, newspaper cartoonist, and circus atrist. Colvig was the original voice actor for the Disney characters Pluto and Goofy, as well as Bozo the clown.
Biography and personal life
Vance Debar Colwig Sr. was born on September 11, 1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon. He was one of 7 children of Judge William Mason Colvig and his wife Adelaide Bersday Colvig.
Vance Debar was educated at Oregon State University from 1910 to 1913.
Colvig married Margaret Burke Slavin in 1916. The newlyweds settled in San Francisco, where they had four sons. After that, they moved to Los Angeles, where their fifth boy was born.
Colvig was a heavy smoker all his life, but he was the initiator of warnings about the risk of cancer on cigarette packs in the United States.
Colvig was the creator and voice actor for the character Vance Colvig, and later portrayed the clown Bozo on live television.
Colvig died on October 3, 1967 of lung cancer at the age of 75. It happened in Woodland Hills, California. The actor is buried in the Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.
Career
In 1916, Pinto Colvig began working with Byington Ford and Benjamin Thaxton "Dachshund" Knight at the San Francisco Animated Film Corporation. This company began producing animated films several years before Walt Disney.
In 1922, Colvig drew a cartoon called Life on the Radio for the Chronicle of San Francisco.
In the late 1920s, Colwig began collaborating with Walter Lanz, with whom he tried to create an animation studio, but they failed. Lanz eventually left for Universal as the producer of Oswald the Happy Bunny, and Colwig went to work as an animator, voice actor, and storyteller.
In 1931, Colwig joined Walt Disney Productions as a writer and sound effects creator. In 1932, he began to voice Goofy, who at first had a completely different name - Dippy Daug. In the short animated film Three Little Pigs, Colvig voiced the "practical pig," that is, the little pig who built a house out of bricks. Voiced Sonya and Grumpy in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Shouted the screams of Ichabod Crane in The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad in 1949.
With Erdman Penner and Walt Pfeiffer, Colwig directed the 1937 short animated film Mickey Mouse Lover. In the same year, Colvig broke up with Disney and left the studio. But in 1940 he returned and continued to work closely with Walt Disney until the end of his career.
Between 1937 and 1940, Colvig worked at Fleischer Studios, filming the rival animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, but after the success of Disney's cartoon, the competitor was no longer buzzing with audiences. In 1939, Colwig directed Gulliver's Travels for Fleischer, voiced the city herald Gabby, and Bluto in the cartoon Popeye the Sailor. For the entire period until Colvig worked for Disney, the popular Goofy remained speechless.
After Colvig moved to California, he began taking acting lessons at the Warner Brothers animation studio. At Metro-Goldwin-Mayer, he voiced Munchkin in the 1939 animated film The Wizard of Oz. At the same time he began working on the radio, presenting voices and sound effects, including the Maxwell Sounds of Jack Benny in the Jack Benny program. In 1940 he returned to the Disney studio to continue to voice Goofy and Pluto.
In 1946, Colvig became Bozo's clown for Capitol Records. He played this role for a whole decade, including portraying his character on television. During the same period, Colvig recorded his song "Flibert The Frog", in which he showed a virtuoso performance of the glottal stop as a musical instrument.
Colvig's last performance was a portrayal of Goofy's character for the telephone booth at Expo 67. Colvig's dialogue for this show was recorded just six months before his death.
Filmography
1925 - cartoons "Hey, during the fever", "After the reputation", "Buster was kind", "Oh, Buster", "Buster's Nightmare".
1928 - cartoon "A Family of Roosters", the role of the farmer Orange.
1930 - cartoons "Ghosts" (voice of the Hippopotamus), "Henpecked" (voice of Oswald Lucky Rabbit), "Chain Gang" (the voice of a pack of hounds), "Snappy the seller" (voice of Oswald Rabbit), "Cowardice", "Naval fleet "," Africa "," Alaska "(in all - the voice of Oswald Lucky Rabbit).
1931 - cartoons "What a Doctor" (the voice of Oswald Lucky Rabbit), "Hunting for a Moose", "Mickey Comes Out", "Mickey the Orphan" (in all - the voice of Pluto).
1932 - cartoons "Duck Hunt", "Barnyard Olympics", "Mad Dog", "Mickey Review", "Just Dogs", "Mickey's Nightmare", "Trader Mickey" (in all - the voice of Pluto), "Whoopi Party "And" Mickey's Landing "(both - the voice of the stupid).
1934 - cartoon "Entrance of the Servants", the voice of a mustard pot.
1935 - the cartoon "Carnival Cookies", the voice of the gingerbread man.
1937 - cartoon "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (voice of the Sleepy and Grumpy).
1939 - cartoons "The Wizard of Oz" (voice of Munchkin) and "Gulliver's Travels" (voice of the Talkative).
1941 - cartoon "Mr. Bug Goes to the City" (voice of Mr. Creeper).
1943 - cartoon "Hop and Go" (voice of Claude Hopper).
1945 - cartoon "Three Caballeros" (voice of Araucan).
1947 - the cartoons "Diverse Girl" (voice imitation) and "Fun and Fantasies for Free" (the voice of Clueless).
1948 - the cartoons "Bill and Co" (the voice of the singer) and "Melodic Time" (the voice of the Araucan pitsa).
1949 - cartoon "The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad" (voice of Ichabod and the townspeople).
1951 - cartoon "Alice in Wonderland" (voice of Flamengo).
1959 - The Sleeping Beauty cartoon (voice of Maleficent Gunn).
1965 - cartoon "Donald Duck Goes West" (voice of the Clueless).
