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.Īllwine died of hypertensive crisis caused by complications from acute diabetes at age 62 on May 18, 2009, at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center.
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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.Īllwine has four children from previous marriages - Christopher, Joshua, Peter, and Erin and a grandson, Isaac. He played rhythm guitar and briefly toured with the band Davie Allan & the Arrows, including on the 1967 single "Cycle-Delic".
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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. 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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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.
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). 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. His first appearance as Mickey for a theatrical release was in the 1983 featurette Mickey's Christmas Carol. 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, 1955–59).Īllwine's first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977. In 1966, Allwine started work in the mailing room at the Disney studios, before working in the sound effects department under Jimmy MacDonald.Īfter auditioning for the role, Allwine became the voice of Mickey Mouse in 1977. Allwine was born in Glendale, California, on February 7, 1947.