Wayne Allwine
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| Born |
Wayne Anthony Allwine February 7, 1947 Glendale, California, U.S. |
| Died | May 18, 2009 (aged 62) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Complications caused by diabetes |
| Resting place | Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Voice actor, sound effects editor, foley artist |
| Years active | 1966–2009 |
| Known for | The voice of Mickey Mouse |
| Spouse(s) |
Alyson Page (m. 1968; div. 1973) Karla Carlsen (m. 1975; div. 1986) Kim Knowlton (m. 1986; div. 1990) Russi Taylor (m. 1991; d. 2009) |
| Children | 4 |
| Family | 1 grandson |
| Awards |
Emmy Award (1986) Disney Legend Award (2008) |
Wayne Anthony Allwine (February 7, 1947 – May 18, 2009) was an American voice actor, sound effects editor and foley artist for The Walt Disney Company. He was best remembered as the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, narrowly the longest to date, and was married to voice actress Russi Taylor, who has voiced Minnie Mouse since 1986. He died in 2009 of complications caused by diabetes.
Allwine was born in Glendale, California on February 7, 1947. In 1966, Allwine started work in the mailing room at the Disney studios, before working in the sound effects department under Jimmy MacDonald.
After auditioning for the role, Allwine became the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1977 until his death in 2009. He succeeded 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, 1955–59).
Allwine's first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977. 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.
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