American comic actor, long with Disney where he was the voice of 'Goofy' and 'Pluto'. Began his performing career as a clown in vaudeville and later worked as a writer and cartoonist for the San Francisco Bulletin. In Hollywood from the 1920's, he started with Mack Sennett at Keystone as a gag writer, scenarist and cartoonist/animator in 1923.