Q: Who does the voice of the sportscaster in the Goofy cartoons on football and basketball? I believe he also does the same thing in this short called Football Now and Then as well as in Moochie of Pop Warner Football. Do you know who the actor is?
Michael, Granite Bay, California
Michael, Granite Bay, California
A [Dave Smith]: The narrator of the Goofy "how to" cartoons was John McLeish, who was an animator and story man at Disney in the 1940s.
[Marcio Disney]
Here is a photo during the production of Disney’s The Reluctant Dragon on November 7, 1940. Actress Frances Gifford, who played a studio artist in the film, is the woman in the photo. Clockwise from Gifford: John McLeish, T. Hee, Ward Kimball, Fred Moore (back), Norm Ferguson (back) and Erdman Penner.
Dumbo was also narrated by John McLeish.
Goofy - How to Play Football (1944)
Goofy - How to Play Baseball (1944)
Goofy - How to Play Golf (1944)
The handsome young man in the photo to the left (if you are facing) next to the man with the glasses is the real John McLeish. You identified the wrong person.
ReplyDelete--Maria McLeish, his daughter