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Sound effects man, voice of 'Mickey Mouse' from 1947-1977.

He once estimated that he created over 28,000 sound effects for 139 feature films and 335 cartoon shorts while he was employed at Disney.

He was the oldest actor to voice Mickey Mouse, at the age of 40. Walt Disney, Wayne Allwine, and Bret Iwan were under the age of 40 when each of them voiced Mickey for the first time.

He was a drummer, both before and during his Disney years. In order to increase his musical versatility, be began collecting odd gadgets and instruments to augment his rhythms. These gadgets formed the seeds of his career in creating sound effects for Disney cartoons. Occassionally, his interests in music and crazy sounds would come together, as in the cartoon Hora da Sinfonia (1942)..

Made one of his few onscreen appearances in Disney's Fantasia (1940), as, presumably, a percussionist for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Actually, the Philadelphia Orchestra was not seen onscreen in the film; Disney voice artists and staff members "portrayed" members of the orchestra in the film (mostly in silhouette).