Pinto Colvig (1892 - 1967) بينتو كولفيج

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An American actor, born in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA, as Vance DeBar Colvig. He was the voice of dozens of well-known characters in films, radio, and television. He went to school in winter and worked in the circus and vaudeville in spring. He studied at the Oregon Agricultural...Read more College, in Corvallis, where he took art classes and played the clarinet in the college band. He worked as a newspaper cartoonist and a clarinetist in circus bands before eventually setting up his own studio, where he created one of the first animated silent films in color in San Francisco. After moving to Hollywood, he signed a contract with Walt Disney, where he worked on stories, co-wrote songs, and voiced notable characters. He then signed a contract with MGM and made appearances in TV and radio productions. He was married to Margaret Bourke Slavin, with whom he had four children, before marrying Peggy Bernice Allaire. He passed away on October 3, 1967, from lung cancer in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.


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  • An American actor, born in Jacksonville, Oregon, USA, as Vance DeBar Colvig. He was the voice of dozens of well-known characters in films, radio, and television. He went to school...Read more in winter and worked in the circus and vaudeville in spring. He studied at the Oregon Agricultural College, in Corvallis, where he took art classes and played the clarinet in the college band. He worked as a newspaper cartoonist and a clarinetist in circus bands before eventually setting up his own studio, where he created one of the first animated silent films in color in San Francisco. After moving to Hollywood, he signed a contract with Walt Disney, where he worked on stories, co-wrote songs, and voiced notable characters. He then signed a contract with MGM and made appearances in TV and radio productions. He was married to Margaret Bourke Slavin, with whom he had four children, before marrying Peggy Bernice Allaire. He passed away on October 3, 1967, from lung cancer in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.

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