Wayne Allwine
Wayne Allwine | |
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Born | Glendale, California, U.S. | February 7, 1947
Died | May 18, 2009 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | (aged 62)
Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, California, U.S. |
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Years active | 1966–2009 |
Spouse(s) | |
Children | 4 |
Wayne Anthony Allwine (February 7, 1947 – May 18, 2009)[1] was an American voice actor, sound effects editor and foley artist for The Walt Disney Company. He is best remembered as the 3rd official voice of Mickey Mouse. He is the longest tenured actor to voice the character, having held the role for 32 years. He was notably married to voice actress Russi Taylor.
Early life[edit]
Allwine was born in Glendale, California, on February 7, 1947.[2]
Career[edit]
In 1966, Allwine started work in the mailing room at the Disney studios, before working in the sound effects department under Jimmy MacDonald.[2]
After auditioning for the role, Allwine became the voice of Mickey Mouse in 1977.[2] He replaced Jimmy MacDonald, who in 1947 had taken over from Walt Disney himself, who had performed the role since 1928 as well as supplying Mickey's voice for animated portions of the original The Mickey Mouse Club television show (ABC-TV, 1955–1959).
Allwine's first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977.[2] His first appearance as Mickey for a theatrical release was in the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol. In the same film, he voiced a Santa Claus on the street appealing for charity donations at the start of the movie, Moley (who appears with Ratty) "collecting for the poor", and one of the two weasel undertakers in the Christmas future scene.
He also starred in films such as The Great Mouse Detective (1986), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), The Prince and the Pauper (1990) and Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004), and the TV series Mickey Mouse Works (1999–2000), Disney's House of Mouse (2001–2003), and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006–2009). He has provided Mickey's voice in the popular Kingdom Hearts series of video games prior to Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep, which was done in collaboration with Japanese video game company Square Enix. Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, which was the last game that used his voice (mainly with Mickey as a playable character in Mission Mode), would leave a message in his memory as the game was released in North America several months after his death.
In addition to his voice work, Allwine had also been a sound effects editor on Disney films and TV shows including Splash (1984) and Three Men and a Baby (1987); as well as Innerspace (1987), Alien Nation (1988), and Star Trek V: The Final Frontier for other studios.
He played rhythm guitar and briefly toured with the band Davie Allan & the Arrows, including on the 1967 single "Cycle-Delic". He was also an accomplished Dixieland jazz drummer, occasionally sitting in with Firehouse Five Plus Two alumni George Probert's Monrovia Old Style Jazz Band.[3]
Personal life[edit]
Allwine has four children from previous marriages. In 1991, he married Russi Taylor, who voiced Minnie Mouse from 1986 to 2019, and they were named Disney Legends in 2008; they remained married until his death in 2009.[2][4]
Death[edit]
Allwine died of hypertensive crisis caused by complications from acute diabetes at age 62 on May 18, 2009 at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. His prospective understudy, Bret Iwan, assumed the role of voicing Mickey Mouse.[2][5][6] His final performance was in the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse episode "The Golden Boo-Boo" (which premiered posthumously on September 28, 2012) and the English-language version of Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, which are dedicated to his memory, dying twelve days before the game's Japanese release, along with the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse television movie "Choo-Choo Express". In 2013, his voice was used in the English-language version of Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix, and in 2014, his voice was again used in the English-language version of Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix via archive audio from his previous work in Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II. He is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Glendale, California.
Filmography[edit]
Film[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1983 | Mickey's Christmas Carol | Mickey Mouse/Weasel Gravedigger/Beggar Dog | Short film |
1985 | The Black Cauldron[7] | Henchman | |
1986 | The Great Mouse Detective[7] | Thug Guard #2 | |
1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit[7] | Mickey Mouse | |
1990 | The Prince and the Pauper[7] | Mickey Mouse/Prince | Short film |
1995 | A Goofy Movie[7] | Mickey Mouse | Cameo |
Runaway Brain | Short film | ||
1998 | The Spirit of Mickey | Direct-to-video | |
1999 | Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas[7] | Direct-to-video | |
Fantasia 2000 | Segment: "Pomp and Circumstance" | ||
2001 | Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse | Direct-to-video | |
2002 | Mickey's House of Villains | ||
2004 | The Lion King 1½ | Direct-to-video | |
Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers[7] | |||
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas | |||
2007 | Mickey's Great Clubhouse Hunt | Special | |
2009 | Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland | ||
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Choo-Choo Express | |||
2010 | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Road Rally | Television film | |
2011 | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse: Space Adventure | Final television film |
Television[edit]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1977-1979 | The New Mickey Mouse Club | Mickey Mouse | 11 episodes |
1983 | Mousercise | ||
1987 | D-TV Doggone Valentine | Television film | |
D-TV Monster Hits | |||
1988 | Totally Minnie | ||
Mickey's 60th Birthday | |||
Here's to you, Mickey Mouse | Television film | ||
1989 | Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 2 episodes | |
1990 | The Muppets at Walt Disney World | Television film | |
Disney Sing-Along Songs: Disneyland Fun | Direct-to-video | ||
1992 | Mickey's Nutcracker | Uncredited Television special | |
1993 | Bonkers | Episode: "I Oughta Be in Toons" | |
1994–1995 | Mickey's Fun Songs series | ||
1995 | Mickey: Reelin' Through the Years | Television film | |
1999–2000 | Mickey Mouse Works | 30 episodes | |
2001–2003 | Disney's House of Mouse | 52 episodes | |
2006–2012 | Mickey Mouse Clubhouse | 100 episodes |
Video games[edit]
Year | Title | Role |
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1998 | My Disney Kitchen | Mickey Mouse |
2000 | Mickey's Speedway USA | |
Mickey Mouse Preschool | ||
Mickey Mouse Kindergarten | ||
Mickey Mouse Toddler | ||
2001 | Disney Learning: Phonics Quest | |
2002 | Disney Learning Adventure: Search for the Secret Keys | |
Kingdom Hearts | ||
Disney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse[7] | ||
Disney Golf | ||
Disney Sports Soccer | ||
Disney Sports Skateboarding | ||
Disney Sports Football | ||
Disney Sports Basketball | ||
2003 | Disney's Party | |
Disney's Hide and Sneak | ||
Toontown Online | ||
2006 | Kingdom Hearts II | |
2008 | Disney Think Fast | |
Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories | ||
2009 | Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days | |
2013 | Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 Remix | Mickey Mouse (archive footage) |
2014 | Kingdom Hearts HD 2.5 Remix |
Theme parks[edit]
Year | Title | Role |
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1991 | Muppet*Vision 3D | Waldo C. Graphic posing as Mickey Mouse |
2003 | Mickey's PhilharMagic | Mickey Mouse |
Crew work[edit]
Year | Title | Position | Notes |
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1977 | A Christmas Carol | Sound effects editor | |
1979 | The Black Hole | ||
1981 | The Fox and the Hound | Uncredited | |
1983 | Winnie the Pooh and a Day for Eeyore | Uncredited | |
Something Wicked This Way Comes | |||
Mickey's Christmas Carol | Uncredited | ||
1984 | Country | ||
Frankenweenie | Foley artist | ||
1985 | Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend | ||
The Black Cauldron | Sound editor | ||
My Science Project | |||
Amazing Stories | 1 episode | ||
1986 | Psycho III | ||
The Great Mouse Detective | |||
1987 | Innerspace | ||
3 Men and a Baby | |||
1988 | Alien Nation | ||
The Good Mother | |||
1989 | Three Fugitives | ||
Star Trek V: The Final Frontier |
Awards and nominations[edit]
Year | Award | Category | Title | Result |
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1985 | Golden Reel Award (Motion Picture Sound Editors) | Best Sound Editing - Television Pilots and Specials | Amazing Stories: "The Mission" | Won |
1986 | Primetime Emmy Award | Outstanding Sound Editing for a Series | Amazing Stories: "The Mission" | Won |
1987 | Golden Reel Award (Motion Picture Sound Editors) | Best Sound Editing - Animated Feature | The Great Mouse Detective | Won |
2008 | Disney Legend Award | Animation - Voice | Won |
References[edit]
- ^ "Disney Legends – D23". Legends.disney.go.com. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f McLellan, Dennis (May 21, 2009). "Wayne Allwine, voice of Mickey Mouse, dies at 62". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ "Firehouse Five Plus Two". rbistudio.com. Retrieved November 22, 2020.
- ^ Hagen, Sheila (May 22, 2009). "Remembering Wayne Allwine, the Official Voice of Mickey Mouse". Mouseplanet.com. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ "Voice of Mickey Mouse dies". Abc.net.au. May 21, 2009. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ Hickerson, Mike (May 21, 2009). "Remembering Wayne Allwine". Slice of SciFi. Retrieved November 6, 2017.
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Wayne Allwine (73 Character Images)". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved June 20, 2020.
External links[edit]
- 1947 births
- 2009 deaths
- Male actors from Glendale, California
- American male video game actors
- American male voice actors
- Burials at Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale)
- Male actors from Los Angeles
- Deaths from diabetes
- Disease-related deaths in California
- 20th-century American male actors
- 21st-century American male actors