Patrick Pinney

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title: "Patrick Pinney" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1952-births", "living-people", "american-male-film-actors", "american-male-video-game-actors", "american-male-voice-actors", "male-actors-from-los-angeles"] description: "American actor (born 1952)" topic_path: "arts" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Pinney" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American actor (born 1952) ::

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name	Patrick Pinney
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birth_name	Patrick Cullen Pinney
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birth_place	San Francisco, California, U.S.
alma_mater	University of the Pacific
occupation	Actor
years_active	1979–present
agent	William Morris Agency
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| name = Patrick Pinney | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Patrick Cullen Pinney | birth_date = | birth_place = San Francisco, California, U.S. | alma_mater = University of the Pacific | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1979–present | agent = William Morris Agency Patrick Cullen Pinney (born June 30, 1952) is an American actor.

Early life, family and education

Pinney was born in San Francisco County, California. His mother's maiden name is his middle name.

He attended college at University of the Pacific in Stockton, California, where producer and director Dennis Jones was a classmate and roommate of his. Pinney's friends included assistant director Michele Panelli Venetis and San Francisco Bay area costumer Alison Barnwell Morris, with whom he costarred in The Deputy at the school's Rotunda Theatre.

Career

Pinney has performed in theaters in the United States and in Europe. After relocating to Los Angeles, he played three characters in a play. Afterwards he was approached by a producer who offered him a role in a Hanna-Barbera animation. From there he made the transition from a serious stage actor to voice.

He has also done work on the television series Harry & the Hendersons.

Voice-over career

Pinney has provided voices for a number of animated characters, including Mighty Mouse in the short-lived Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures (1987–1988), Pa Gorg, Uncle Traveling Matt, Flange Doozer, and additional voices in the animated version of Fraggle Rock, Chico the Bouncer in the hybrid live-action/animated film Cool World (1992), the speaking voice of Painty the Pirate from the opening theme of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999–present) and Wormguy and Idikiukup in Men in Black: The Series.

He supplied the voice of the Fish Ghoulie in the Ghoulies sequel Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College (1987) and voiced Stan in the video game The Curse of Monkey Island.

In the late 1980s, he worked on a number of projects. One was providing the voice for Mainframe in G.I. Joe: The Movie in 1987. A couple of years later, he was involved in another project. It was on the X-Men in 1989. He provided the voice for Wolverine in Pryde of the X-Men which was the pilot episode for an animated series which was never produced. He had given the character an Australian sounding accent instead of the Canadian one that was expected. An article by Simone Pozzoli for the Italian language OverNewsMagazine website notices that Pinney's Australian accent interpretation of the character could be interpreted as prophetic as Australian Hugh Jackman has played the part. William Callaway preceded Pinney in 1982-- He has worked in the Phil Nibbelink and Simon Wells directed animation An American Tail: Fievel Goes West. From 1997 to 2001, he worked on Men in Black: The Series in episodes which include The Long Goodbye Syndrome in 1997, The Buzzard Syndrome, also in 1997 and The Big Bad Bug Syndrome in 1998.

Acting career (physical)

Film and television

Although Pinney's voiceover work is his primary career, he has appeared in some television and film roles. In 1979, he played the Captain of the Guards in the Ken Annakin-directed feature film The Fifth Musketeer which starred Beau Bridges, Sylvia Kristel and Ursula Andress. In 1983, he played a heckler in the Fantasy Island episode "God Child/Curtain Call". He appeared in The Terminator in 1984. In 2014, he played the part of Eugene Dugan in Atwill Web Series which was directed by Charles Dennis.

He also voiced characters in Disney films such as Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Toy Story, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet, and Brother Bear.

Stage

In June 2015, Pinney appeared at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in the play Unnecessary Farce. The play also starred Daniel Hines, Kristin Howell, Ty Smith and Nick Ferruci. The story which was set in a small town motel with an embezzling mayor with undercover police trying to catch him. Pinney played the part of a 6.4 Scottish assassin. The reviewer for the Sierra Lodestar magazine said that audiences might recognize Pinney from his part as Painty the Pirate.

Filmography

Film (animated)

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Year	Title	Role	Note(s)	Source
1986	G.I. Joe: Arise, Serpentor, Arise!	Mainframe	Television film
1987	G.I. Joe: The Movie	Mainframe	Direct-to-video
1987	The Chipmunk Adventure	Additional voices	Credited as Pat Pinney
1988	Christmas in Tattertown		Television film
1989	The Little Mermaid	Additional voices
1990	DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp	Additional voices
1991	Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College	Fish Ghoulie	Direct-to-video
1991	Beauty and the Beast	Additional voices
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Additional voices
1992	Aladdin	Additional voices
1993	Look Who's Talking Now	Dog voices
1995	Toy Story	Pizza delivery guy, angry driver #2
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Quasimodo's father, additional voices
1997	Hercules	Cyclops, Rock Titan's Left Head
1998	Mulan	Fa Deng
1998	The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald: Scared Silly	Phantom head	Direct-to-video
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire	Smithsonian board member #2
2002	Lilo & Stitch	Firefighter
2002	Treasure Planet	Aquanoggin
2003	Brother Bear	Male bear #1
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Television (animated)

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Year	Title	Role	Note(s)	Source
1987	Fraggle Rock: The Animated Series	Uncle Traveling Matt, Pa Gorg, Flange Doozer	13 episodes
1987–88	Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures	Mighty Mouse	Main role
1989	X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men	Wolverine	TV pilot
1997	Cow and Chicken	Superhero #2	Ep. "Who Is Super Cow?"
Spider-Man: The Animated Series	The Thing / Ben Grimm	2 episodes
1999	The Wild Thornberrys	MacWhirter, Radio Voice	Ep. "You Ain't Seen Nothing Yeti"
1999–present	SpongeBob SquarePants	Painty the Pirate	Performer: "SpongeBob SquarePants Theme"
2000	Johnny Bravo	Bailiff, Defense Attorney, Juror #1	Ep. "I Dream of Johnny/One Angry Bravo/Carnival of the Darned"
2001	The Powerpuff Girls	Cop #1, Actor Cop, Guard #3, Male Actor, Male Teller, Crook #3	Ep. "Film Flam"
2003	My Life as a Teenage Robot	Dismal, Soggy, Rich Guy	Ep. "Attack of the 5 1/2 Ft. Geek/Doom with a View"
2007–present	Robot Chicken	He-Man / Prince Adam, Arnold Schwarzenegger / Terminator, Sylvester, Monterey Jack, Ted Kennedy, Dick Cheney, O. J. Simpson, Carl Fredricksen	14 episodes
2018	Trolls: The Beat Goes On!	Nangus	Ep. "Royal Review/Funishment"
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Acting roles (screen)

::data[format=table title="Film"] | Title | Role | Director | Year | Notes | Chicanery | Atwill Web Series Episode: Judge Joanie | Dead Men Don't Die | The Terminator | Fantasy Island Episode "God Child / Curtain Call" | The Fifth Musketeer | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Mannheim Hofflung | Charles Dennis | 2014 | url= http://www.osobnosti.cz/patrick-pinney.php |title= Patrick Pinney| website= Osobnosti.cz| publisher= |date= | access-date= }} | | | | | | | | | Eugene Dugan | Charles Dennis | 2014 | | | | | | | | | | Announcer | Malcolm Marmorstein | 1990 | | | | | | | | | | Bar customer | James Cameron | 1984 | | | | | | | | | | Heckler | Ted Lange | 1983 | | | | | | | | | | Captain of the Guards | Ken Annakin | 1979 | | | | | | | | | ::

Acting roles (stage)

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Title	Role	Director	Venue	Date	Notes	The Golden Fleece	The Alchemist of Cecil Street	Tolstoy Was Never There	Unnecessary Farce
		The Hub Theatre	August 5, 2007	Adaptation of A.R. Gurney's The Golden Fleece; co-starring with Becky Bonar
	Charles Dennis	Radio Ranch, Sherman Oaks, California	March 31, 2009
Brian Mayhew	Charles Dennis		2010	Cast included Kevin Dunn, Ed Begley Jr., John O'Hurley, Ron Orbach, Enn Reitel
Todd	Dennis Jones	Sierra Repertory Theatre	2015
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References

References

1. "The Birth of Patrick Pinney".
2. (June 2, 2015). "Kilts and hit men make for laughs at Sierra Rep". [[Sierra Lodestar]].
3. Rowland, Marijke. (May 20, 2015). "Comedic 'Unnecessary Farce' slams into Sierra Rep". [[The Modesto Bee]].
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5. Terrace, Vincent. "Harry and the Hendersons".
6. "G.I. Joe: The Movie - Acteurs : Cast".
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8. Pozzoli, Simone. (11 November 2015). "La Prim(issim)a Serie Animata degli X-Men".
9. Beougher, Wayatt. "''Marvel's Agents of SHIELD'' 3.16 Review – 'Paradise Lost', The Review".
10. (June 12, 2011). "Character of the Week (6/13/11-6/19/11): James Howlett/Logan/Wolverine".
11. McCall, Douglas L.. "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West".
12. Honeybone, Nigel. (April 19, 2017). "Film Review: Men In Black (1997)".
13. "Patrick Pinney Biography".
14. "Cast and credits of The 5th Musketeer".
15. "God Child/Curtain Call / Episode 4, Fantasy Island < Season 7".
16. "Patrick Pinney, Credits".
17. "O Exterminador Do Futuro (The Terminator, 1984)". Cineclick Participações Ltda.
18. "Hrají – Atwill Web Series".
19. "Judge Joanie (2015 SS Fest Entry)".
20. ''Recordnet.com'' June 18, 2015 [http://www.recordnet.com/article/20150617/ENTERTAINMENTLIFE/150619702 Friday, Theater: “Unnecessary Farce”]
21. (Fall 2015). "Together again, Former 70s classmates teamed up this year for the first time since they were together at Pacific". [[University of the Pacific (United States).
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25. "The Fifth Musketeer (1979)".
26. "A.R. Gurney's Drama ''The Golden Fleece''".
27. "The Alchemist of Cecil Street". Charles Dennis.
28. "Tolstoy was Never There". Charles Dennis.
29. "Dennis, Charles". canadiantheatre.com.
30. "Paid to Dream". Verge Multimedia.
31. (June 18, 2015). "Friday, Theater: 'Unnecessary Farce'".

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