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Vance Colvig Jr.
San Francisco, California, USA
Vance DeBar Colvig Jr. was an American character actor, voice actor, and writer best known for being the first actor to portray Bozo the Clown on a franchised television program.…
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Vance DeBar Colvig Jr. was an American character actor, voice actor, and writer best known for being the first actor to portray Bozo the Clown on a franchised television program. He also voiced Chopper the bulldog on The Yogi Bear Show. He was the son of Pinto Colvig, the original voice of Disney's Goofy and the first-ever performer of Bozo the Clown on records. In the 1980s, he became a familiar face making live-action guest appearances as a character actor on hits like The Golden Girls, Night Court, Hill Street Blues, and St. Elsewhere. One of his most memorable late-career film cameos was playing a transient alongside "Weird Al" Yankovic in the 1989 cult comedy film UHF.
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1992
Boris and Natasha
Movie One-Eyed Man
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1989
UHF
Movie Bum
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1989
Rodney Dangerfield: Opening Night at Rodney's Place
Movie Smitty
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1988
Big Top Pee-wee
Movie Clownie
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1988
Arizona Heat
Movie Mr. Gordon
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1988
Track 29
Movie Mr. Ennis
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1988
Mortuary Academy
Movie Uncle Willard
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1987
Barfly
Movie Alcoholic Man
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1987
Dudes
Movie Hezekiah
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1987
Maid to Order
Movie Man with Newspapers
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1986
The Boys Next Door
Movie Old Man
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1986
My Chauffeur
Movie Doolittle
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Vaudevillian
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1984
Night Court
TV show Bum
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1982
St. Elsewhere
TV show Mr. Pechar
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1981
American Pop
Movie Hobo #1
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1980
For the Love of It
Movie Old Hippie
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1961
The Yogi Bear Show
TV show Chopper (voice)
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1959
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
TV show Tombstone Jones
