Curiosidades

Voice of 'Donald Duck' for 50 years

He dubbed the voice of Donald Duck into French, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, German and Chinese. None of these languages could he understand - Nash had the words written out phonetically and gabbled them in 'Duckspeak'.

Voiced Daisy Duck, Donald's girlfriend; and Huey, Dewey, and Louie, his nephews, in a higher octave.

Besides doing many character voices in cartoons, Nash also supplied the bird sounds in the Tiki Room at Disneyland.

He also did the voice of Jiminy Cricket after Cliff Edwards died.

When Nash began working at Disney on December 2, 1933 the studio had 125 employees. His starting salary was $35 per week. When he left in 1984, it had 20,000.

He based Donald Duck's voice on a sound made by his pet goat Mary, who would make a "wa-ah-ah-ah" sound whenever she needed to be fed by bottle. In fact, it was a goat, not a duck, that he was playing on the radio when Disney heard him for the first time.

Scuba divers coined the affect of helium gas on the human voice as "The Donald Duck Effect".

Nash also played Gracie Allen's pet duck Herman on the "Burns and Allen Radio Show," but because of contractual considerations with Disney, he wasn't allowed to say any dialogue, only quack.

4th cousin twice removed of Scott Trimble.

Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). (2010)

In the TV special ''Roger Rabbit and the Secret of ToonTown'', He was miscredited as ''Charlie Nash''.

He has appeared in seven films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: El viejo molino (1937), Blancanieves y los siete enanitos (1937), Pinocho (1940), Bambi (1942), La Cenicienta (1950), La dama y el vagabundo (1955), & La bella durmiente (1959).