25 Facts About Pinto Colvig

William Pinto Colvig was a pioneer, an attorney and a distinguished Oregonian; he was never actually a judge.

Pinto Colvig attended but did not graduate from Medford High School.

Pinto Colvig was accepted and attended, sporadically from 1910 to 1913, Oregon State University, in Corvallis, where he took art classes and played clarinet in the band.

Pinto Colvig drew cartoons for the Oregon Agricultural College Barometer newspaper, and the yearbook.

In 1913, Colvig worked the Pantages Theatre Circuit, briefly, before leaving for clarinetist in the Al G Barnes Circus band for part of a season.

In 1916, Pinto Colvig worked at the Animated Film Corporation in San Francisco, which produced animated cartoons years prior to Walt Disney.

Pinto Colvig was the oldest known studio of its kind established on the West Coast.

In 1919, Pinto Colvig produced "Pinto Colvig's Prizma Comedy Review," the first color cartoon, it is considered a lost film, and published in the San Francisco Bulletin, the "Bulletin Boob" column, and photographs.

In 1922, Pinto Colvig created a newspaper cartoon panel titled "Life on the Radio Wave" for the San Francisco Chronicle.

When Lantz became producer of Universal's Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons in 1929, Pinto Colvig was hired as an animator, working as a storyman and voice artist, briefly voicing Oswald.

In 1930, Pinto Colvig signed an eight-year contract with Walt Disney Productions as a writer, providing sound effects, including the barks for Pluto the Pup.

Pinto Colvig directed the 1937 Mickey Mouse short Mickey's Amateurs.

Pinto Colvig was associated with Disney for most of his career.

Between 1937 and 1940, Pinto Colvig did not work for the Disney studio, after falling out with Walt Disney.

Pinto Colvig was offered a job with Fleischer Studios, then planning to produce a competing feature-length animated film in the wake of Disney's success with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, moving to Miami in early 1938.

Pinto Colvig voiced Bluto for the studio's Popeye the Sailor cartoons, replacing Gus Wickie, who elected to remain in New York rather than move to Miami.

Pinto Colvig began working on radio, providing voices and sound effects, including the sounds of Jack Benny's Maxwell on The Jack Benny Program, later performed by Mel Blanc.

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

In 1946, Pinto Colvig was cast as Bozo the Clown for Capitol Records.

Pinto Colvig played the role for a decade, which included portraying the character on television.

In 1967, Pinto Colvig's last known performance, as Goofy, was for the Telephone Pavilion at Expo 67.

Pinto Colvig married Margaret Bourke Slavin in 1916, and settled with her in San Francisco, where four of their five boys were born.

Pinto Colvig was the father of the character and voice actor Vance Pinto Colvig, who later portrayed Bozo the Clown on a live TV program.

Pinto Colvig died of lung cancer on October 3,1967, at Motion Picture Country Hospital in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, at age 75.

Pinto Colvig was interred at Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City.