José Francisco Colmenero y Villanueva (born February 28, 1932 in Mexico City, Mexico), known professionally as Francisco Colmenero, is a Mexican voice actor and voice director. After the death of his father, his brother in law, voice actor and voice director Edmundo Santos, offered him a job as his private driver then Colmenero accepted. During his time working as the driver of Edmundo Santos, Colmenero met the muse of Santos, the voice actress Estrellita Díaz with whom he started an affair and after a while Díaz convinced Santos to use Colmenero as a dubbing actor for additional voices (although Colmenero wasn't an actor nor having any knowledge of acting) debuting in

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in 1954. In 1959 Santos as a gesture of kindness referred Colmenero to Enrique Candiani, CEO of the back then new dubbing company Servicio Internacional de Sonido for hire him as voice director. After the death of Edmundo Santos in 1977, Colmenero and his siblings took over the dubbing company of Santos called Grabaciones y Doblajes, S.A. and never informed their main customer, The Walt Disney Company, about the passing of Santos and Colmenero became the almost absolute voice director in the company after putting his brother Jorge as the production manager. This era of Disney's Latin Spanish dubs was known for excessive repetition of a few actors in all the dubs directed by Colmenero for Disney arranging the castings to make the client believe that Colmenero's group had been selected. In 1988 Disney's localization executives learned the truth about the castings and the death of Santos then The Walt Disney Company filed a lawsuit to Grabaciones y Doblajes, S.A. meanwhile for the pending dubs were hired the studios Intersound in Los Ángeles and Servicio Internacional de Sonido in Mexico City. A few time later voice actor Javier Pontón was hired as dubbing creative manager for then recent created Disney Character Voices International assuring Disney's Latin Spanish dubs in Los Ángeles and other studios of Mexico City different of Grabaciones y Doblajes keeping a hard supervision over castings and performance.

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(1980 re-dubbing)

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(2006-) * Bilbo Baggins from The Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001-2003) (originally played by

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(originally voiced by

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narrator *

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adventures narrator *

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dubbing director, narrator *Arthur Hoggett in

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(1995) and Babe: Pig in the City (1998) *Narrator in

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(1999) * Dr. Teeth/ Swedish Chef/Lew Zealand/Statler/Ice Cream Man (

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)/Lew Lord (

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(1979) (1993 redoblaje) * Dr. Teeth/Statler/Swedish Chef/Sweetums/Pops/Lew Zealand/English Man (

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* Jacob Marley (Statler) in

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* Statler/Chief Pig/Sweetums in

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* Bobo the Bear (Rentro) in

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* Statler/Swedish Chef/Bobo the Bear in

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* Statler/Swedish Chef/Bobo the Bear in

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* Lofty in

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(2001-2011)

Animated movie characters

* Bichonesto in Gato con botas: El ultimo deseo (2022) *Glynn in Thomas & Friends: The Adventure Begins (2015) * Goofy from Mickey Mouse until

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*Sheriff in

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(2006) *Amos Slade in El Zorro y el Sabueso 2 (2006) *Sheriff Brown in Vacas Vaqueras (2004) *Horacio in 101 dálmatas II: Una nueva aventura en Londres (2003) *Narrator in La Bella Durmiente redub (2001) *Alcalde Phlegmming in Ósmosis Jones (2001) *Gruñon in Blancanieves redub (2001) *Gruñon and Pumbaa in El Show del Ratón *Gruñon and Pumbaa in El Rey León 3 *Gruñon and Pumbaa in Una Navidad con Mickey *Pumbaa in Timon y Pumbaa *Pumbaa in El Rey León 2: El Reino de Simba *Narrator in Blancanieves redub (2001) *Santa Claus in Rudolph, el reno de la nariz roja (1998) *Cornelius in Bichos (1998) *Father in Ferngully II: El Rescate Mágico (1998) *Puffin in La princesa encantada (1994) *Pumbaa in El Rey León (1994) *Narrator in Ferngully: Las aventuras de Zak y Crysta (1992) *Hexxus in Ferngully: Las aventuras de Zak y Crysta (1992) *Crysta's Father in Ferngully: Las aventuras de Zak y Crysta (1992) *Narrator in La Bella y la Bestia (1991) *Bartholomew, Thug Guard #1, Bar Guy, and Citizen in Policías y Ratones (1986) *One of the Soldiers in El caldero mágico *Clyde the Crow in Katy La Oruga *Cronos in El Secreto de NIHM (1982) *Amos Slade in El Zorro y el Sabueso (1981) *Yattaran in Capitán Raymar (1981) * Inspector Eduardo Scott in Lupin III: La Película (1980) *Hoagie in Pete's Dragon (Pedro y el Dragón Elliot – 1977) *Mr. Snoops in Bernardo y Bianca (1977) *King Richard Lionheart in

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(1973) *The Sheriff of Nottingham in

(1973) *Sir Crocodile in

(1973) *Templeton in Charlotte's Web (1973) *Mr. Toplofty in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island (2000) *Lafayette in

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(''Los Aristogatos'' – 1970) *Daffy Duck in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies (1970) *Fat Crow in

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(1969) *Dizzy in El Libro de la Selva (1967) *Feliz in Blancanieves y los Siete Enanos (1964) *Horacio in '' 101 Dalmatas'' (1961) *

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in the Disney shorts (1956-) *Bull and Tofi in

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(1955) *Fly in ''

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'' (2012) and ''

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'' (2015) *Jemmy the Cat in ''

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'' (1975)

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