Joaquin Garay

Joaquin Garay (November 15, 1911 – September 13, 1990) was a Mexican actor and singer. He was known for voicing Panchito Pistoles in the 1944 Walt Disney film The Three Caballeros.

Career Born in El Oro, Mexico, Garay came to America at eleven months. He was a well-known radio performer in the 1940s, and opened the popular Copacabana nightclub in September 1941, which was frequented by visiting Hollywood celebrities. He hosted shows in the nightclub and performed in vaudeville, and recorded an album in the mid-40s, "A Night at Joaquin Garay's Copacabana".

Garay voiced the Mexican rooster Panchito in 1944, teaming up with Clarence Nash as Donald Duck and José Oliveira as José Carioca to sing The Three Caballeros''' title song. However, after recording, Garay's speaking voice as Panchito was found to be wanting:

Cutting hired a Mexican actor, Felipe Turich, to be Garay's vocal coach, but for the Mexican Spanish-language version of the film, Cutting decided to simply use Turich as Panchito's speaking voice, with Garay singing. but only for the speaking parts, as Panchito's singing is taken from the Mexican Spanish dub.

However, Garay returned to Disney in 1953 to voice the Narrator and the other characters in a Goofy short, For Whom the Bulls Toil.

In the 1950s, Garay appeared in the films Crisis (1950) Saddle Tramp (1950), Lightning Strikes Twice (1951), Fast Company (1953) and Latin Lovers (1953). who, like his father, also appeared in a Disney film, 1980's Herbie Goes Bananas.