Clarence Nash
Clarence Charles " Ducky " Nash ( born December 7, 1904 in Watonga, Oklahoma; † 20 February 1985 in Los Angeles ) was an American voice artist, who became famous for his vote for Donald Duck. He came in 1932 with the Walt Disney Company, after he had personally presented some of his animal sounds before Walt Disney. The imitations moving Disney to make the Nash voice of the newly created Donald Duck. So Nash said this role, among other until the year 1983.
In his native city, a street is named after him. He himself once said: "I wanted to be a doctor, but instead I was the biggest quack in the world! "
Life
Clarence Nash was born on December 7, 1904 in Watonga, Oklahoma, on the farm of his parents. He whiled away the time as a child, so to imitate the animals of the farm. When Nash was nine years old, the family moved to Glasgow, Missouri, and a year later after Independence. At twelve, he ruled, among others, the voices of dogs, cats, chicks, horses, raccoons. When he was given a small goat, he made after these mixed voice and words in the bleating.
In the next few years, he led his first arts in the school yard before before made him a school talent show, performing in front of a larger audience. Already here he had great success with the voice of the sheep Mary. Later, he left school to go in the midwest of the country as a mandolin player and animal impersonator with the Red Path Chautauqua and the Lydeum group on tour. The groups broke away to Nash's regret at the end of the '20s.
In 1930, he married his girlfriend Margie and promised her to give up show business to get a steady job and living space. Finding a job initially led to San Francisco, then to Los Angeles. There he was employed by the Adohr Milk Company, for which he campaigned with the help of a round -propelled milk wagon. One day he spoke spontaneously ago at the Disney Studios, whereupon the film producer his sheep voice be ideal for a new character, a little duck was. Thus, the impersonator was 125 employees at December 2, 1933 Disney.
In this case, some problems had to be solved. So he had to learn to croak on many different languages. According to information from the German fell on him hardest. The length of the words had to be adjusted exactly the drawn dialogues, which was also fraught with difficulties. Furthermore Donalds vocabulary was very limited because certain words were with his voice just is not articulate, and was subject to strict censorship.
Nash starred in numerous films, up from the year 1962 only sporadically new works were drawn. But Nash drove it continues to talk Donald into different projects, for example, he sang the song "Macho Duck " on the " Mickey Mouse Disco " album. The last time he spoke to Drake in 1983 for the Charles Dickens adaptation Mickey's Christmas narrative ( Original Title: Mickey's Christmas Carol ). Late 70s Nash was known for often taking walks around the Fremont Elementary School in Glendale, California, and to entertain children with his voice. In addition, he still traveled in late times with a Donald doll around the world and gave performances in schools, hospitals and orphanages.
1983 was presented to him at the White House by President Ronald Reagan, a roll of honor.
1985 passed the animal impersonator from leukemia. It is located on the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, buried. His grave he shares with his wife, who died in 1993. On the grave stone is engraved a Donald who holds hands with Daisy Duck.
Importance
Clarence Nash had greatly to the development of the character Donald Duck. So he was the one who gave an artistic side to the drake and let him appear in numerous films with songs, singing and instruments ( for example, in Donald Caballero ). In recent years, the impersonator even wanted a movie in which the cartoon character should sing only famous operas, the project was never realized.
Donald Duck is connected to the voice of Clarence Nash Worldwide today. Due to this fact the studio " Disney Legend " appointed him ( " Disney Legend" ). This very important and classic contributors will be honored at Disney projects for the development of the studio. The audience was Nash's face and name the dragon already known from the film against his will (1941 ), where he is seen when recording audio along with Florence Gill and a few words with lead actor Robert Benchley changes. In the 1950s, Nash was then not only a voice, but also the flesh a frequent guest on the Disney television shows, especially in the Mickey Mouse Club.
Nash always emphasized the " laughter and the joy of the audience as well as Donald's fame " were " enough reward" for him.
Donald Clarence Nash
After the death of voice artist in 1985, Tony Anselmo began working as Donald spokesman. He had previously been trained by Nash himself and spoke well for many years the nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. The spokesman Jimmy Weldon, Frank Welker and Luba Goy related to the nature of its synchronous speech again and again to the artist. This has been known, for example Weldon Yakky doodle for Hanna- Barbera. However, Nash is still the best-known voice of Drake.
Other characters
In addition to Donald Nash said initially, Daisy Duck, as this was not much more than a female Donald and the three nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie. He also delivered the mewing of a kitten Figaro in some short appearances, spoke dogs in 101 dalmatians, birds in the Tiki room to Disneyland and a toad in Bambi. At times he croaked numerous other ducks in television and radio. Sometimes the voice of the temporary third main character of Tom and Jerry Little Quacker is falsely attributed to Nash, as it sounds similar to the Donald Ducks.