As an animator for Disney, his first credit was on the film Pinocchio, where he was the lead animator for the villainous Coachman.
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In Steve Barron's 1996 live action film The Adventures of Pinocchio, Mangiafuoco (who is played by Udo Kier) is renamed Lorenzini and is portrayed as the main antagonist of the film also the same character is used for portraying the role of 3 Different Villains: the Puppet Master, The Coachman and the Sea Whale.
He also did extensive work as a voice-over actor in animated films, notably as the voices of Stromboli and the coachman in Walt Disney's Pinocchio, and in the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes short Porky's Garden.
John Alcock, who along with Arthur Whitten Brown was the first man to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, was born in the lodge of Basford House on Seymour Grove, where his father was the coachman.
It is said that a French gentleman wishing, when in London, to be driven to Marlborough Street, had totally forgotten its name; but on humming the tune, the coachman drove him to the proper address with no other direction.