The sound of his voice is probably heard at least once a day in households with children across the world, but are they jumping up and shouting "Yes! That's Pinto Colvig!" No, and that's showbiz. Born Vance D. Colvig near the end of the 19th century, Pinto Colvig was a voice artist from the golden era of cartoons. He worked regularly with Walt Disney, and was primarily responsible for the voice of Goofy. He also worked the voices of several of the dwarves who befriended Snow White in the original Disney classic of animation, including Grumpy. Mean, unfriendly characters such as this became one of his specialties, and he excelled at outright villains. He created the unforgettable beast of a bad guy Bluto during his relationship with cartoon director Max Fleischer, who directed the first and best series of Popeye cartoons. Another great Colvig bad guy, or should it be bad bug, was Mr. Creeper in the cartoon film Hoppity Goes to Town. Wolves also served Colvig well, which is certainly better than being served to them. The voice artist showed his lyrical abilities as co-writer of the song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" introduced by Disney in the studio's version of the story of the Three Little Pigs. Colvig also collaborated with Tex Avery, an animator who was decidedly more subversive than Disney. Avery was fond of satirizing fairy tales, particularly the saga of Little Red Riding Hood, and Colvig's amusing voices for the wolf characters were crucial to several of these epics. Indeed, he worked with such regularity and diversity within the world of cartoons and animated features that it can become almost an endless conversation just recapping his most famous credits. He spat for grasshoppers, belched and grunted for hogs, and howled for dogs. Every sniff, bark, and whine which emerged from the canine character Pluto was carefully crafted by Colvig. He worked many of the voices in the early Mickey Mouse movies and did some of his finest work for Disney years later on the film Song of the South, which combined cartoons and live actors. He was also in demand for his vocal talents outside the cartoon kingdom. Beginning in the '20s, his sound effects were in demand by radio comedians and he was a regular on programs such as the Jack Benny Show and Amos 'n' Andy. His sound effects, which like the voices he worked , were all entirely his own inventions and developments, and could often punch a merely funny line into a hilarious one. When Benny co-star Dennis Day's horse got the hiccups, it was Colvig. He even did sound effects for the automobiles on the Benny show.