Pete (Disney) a cartoon "Gallopin Romance" in Mickey's Gala Premier) to a brutal law-enforcer (such as "Moving Day" in which he is a sheriff who serves Mickey and Donald Duck with an eviction notice). On the other hand, Pete is seen in the audience in the 1932 "Mickey's Revue" in which the antagonist is not Pete but "Dippy Dawg" aka Goofy; in the 1942 cartoon "Symphony Hour", Pete is a sympathetic impresario who sponsors Mickey's orchestra in a concert, which goes terribly wrong, but is a great success. As Mickey's popularity declined, Pete would serve as an antagonist for Donald Duck and
Pete (Disney) consistently appearing supporting character to Oswald, and the character continued to appear in that role in the Oswald films directed and produced by Walter Lantz until 1937, making him essentially the only cartoon character at the time to frequently appear in shorts produced by two rival animation studios. His most notable non-Disney appearance was arguably as a captain in "Permanent Wave" (September 29, 1929). Animation historian David Gerstein speculates that when Disney stopped working on the Oswald cartoons for Universal he separated from the character and his cast including Pete. Disney and his team created a cat villain for their