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Pinto Colvig

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Vance DeBar "Pinto" Colvig (born September 11, 1892 in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA – died of lung cancer on October 3, 1967 in Woodland Hills, California, USA) was a vaudeville actor, radio actor, newspaper cartoonist, prolific movie voice actor, and circus performer whose schtick was playing clarinet off-key while mugging.

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. Colvig worked for not only the Disney studio, but the Warner Bros. animation studio, Fleischer Studios, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he voiced a Munchkin in The Wizard of Oz. He was also one of the pioneers in advocating warning labels about cancer risk on cigarette packages in the United States.

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