Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig was a vaudeville American actor, voice actor, radio actor, comedian, circus performer, newspaper cartoonist, 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 voice of Goofy from 1932 to 1939 when Pinto left Disney for unknown reasons, and resume the role from 1944 until his retirement from acting 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, Mortimer Mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and other classic characters.
Disney Roles
Goofy (1932–1965)
Pluto (1931–1961)
Pete (Mickey's Amateurs)
Dopey (hiccups)
Doc (7 Wise Dwarfs)
Cannibal chieftain in Trader Mickey
Grasshopper in Mickey's Garden
Ants in Tea for Two Hundred and Uncle Donald's Ants
Pygmy Cannibals in Spare the Rod
Some of Maleficent's Goons
W.C. Fields Doll
Tall thin mouseketeer
Hortense Ostrich
The Marx Brothers
Gallery
Calvig 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.