Disney Animated Shorts

Pete's first role in Disney animated shorts was as an adversary for Julius in the Alice Comedies, in which he was very recognizable with his characteristic peg-leg and cigar. Through the years, Pete appeared in the Oswald Cartoons, and later in many cartoons with Mickey, Donald, Goofy, and many others. Thought it was always Pete, he had many other names through the years, such as in The Cactus Kid (1930) he was Peg Leg Pedro and in The Klondike Kid (1932) he was Pierre the Trapper - a persona he was to adopt again years later in 1941's Timber. Also, other aspects of Pete changed. Although Pete always had a cigar, the animators had some difficulty in remembering which leg was the peg-leg, and in many movies they solved the problem by simply omitting it. (Another reason for the disappearance of Pete's peg-leg) Then in Mickey's Service Station (1935), although his voice is as usual deep, rough and coarse, it has also a slight Germanic touch to it, to reflect the fact that, even as early as 1935 when the short was released, the Disney studio was aware of the growing threat of Nazism. By the mid 1940's, Pete was starting to be a front-ranking Disney character in which he was an instantly recognizable figure with a large corpus of work behind him. Pete almost even got a starring role in a feature movie to be called Morgan's Ghost, but project was shelved when the Disney studio began producing wartime propaganda and training films. The plot was that Pete, in disguise, would captain a ship manned by his dastardly henchmen and take Mickey, Donald and the Goofy to a treasure island, the entire party being led there by a parrot called Yellowbeak. The movie never got beyond the story-sketch stage, although - in the typical Disney spirit of "waste not, want not" - Carl Barks and Jack Hannah used it as the basis of one of the comic books, Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (1942). In the book the parts that would have been played in the movie by Mickey and Goofy are instead played by the three Nephews. After 1954, Pete wasn't in a short for 3 decades until In Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) he plays the part of the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come. (In which he was voiced by Will Ryan. Ryan had the difficult task of matching the superb vocal characterization of Pete earlier given by Billy Bletcher.) Pete also appeared in the 1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit movie and the 1990 featurette "The Prince and the Pauper". This seemed to be to be the rebirth of Pete. Then, with a different look and not quite as mean he appeared in The Goof Troop TV series and Later the spin-off movies "A Goofy Movie" (1995) and "An Extremely Goofy Movie" (2000).

---1925---

Alice Solves the Puzzle
Alice Wins the Derby
Alice's Tin Pony

---1926---

Alice's Spanish Guitar

---1927---

The Ocean Hop
Rickety Gin

---1928---

Harem Scarem
Rival Romeos
Oh, What a Knight
Sagebrush Sadie
Ozzie of the Mounted
Steamboat Willie
Gallopin' Gaucho

---1929---

The Barn Dance

---1930---

The Cactus Kid