Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash was an American voice actor.
18 Facts About Clarence Nash
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Clarence Nash is best remembered as the original voice of the Disney cartoon character Donald Duck.
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Clarence Nash was born in the rural community of Watonga, Oklahoma, and a street in that town is named in his honor.
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Clarence Nash later was employed by the Adohr Milk Company for publicity purposes.
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In 1932, Clarence Nash happened by the Disney Studio with his team of horses, and decided to leave a copy of his Adohr publicity sheet with the receptionist.
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One source indicates Clarence Nash auditioned before a casting director for Walt Disney Studios and did a voice impression of a billy goat that Clarence Nash had started doing as a child in Watonga.
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The duck was Donald Duck, who Clarence Nash went on to voice for 51 years, in over 120 shorts and films.
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In early 1941, Clarence Nash was traveling on personal appearance tours sponsored by Disney.
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RKO and Disney were unsure how the film would do the second time around at the box office after its initial blockbuster run, so they did a promotional campaign with Disney characters including Clarence Nash performing with the Donald puppet.
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Clarence Nash first discovered it while trying to mimic his pet goat Mary.
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Clarence Nash provided the meows and yowls of Figaro the kitten in Pinocchio and in a handful of shorts; in Pinocchio he provided the Popeye-esque voice for the Rough House statue.
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Clarence Nash appeared as himself in the 1941 film The Reluctant Dragon, which shows how Disney films are produced, and was a contestant on a 1954 episode of What's My Line and a 1964 episode of To Tell the Truth.
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Clarence Nash appeared as himself in a 1956 episode of Disneyland entitled "A Day in the Life of Donald Duck", in which he interacts with an animated Donald who blames him for his speech problems: the two end up arguing mainly due to Donald's short temper.
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Clarence Nash was a guest on a 1976 episode of The Mike Douglas Show.
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When Disney shut down their shorts department in 1962, Clarence Nash continued to voice Donald in various projects over the next two decades.
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Clarence Nash married Margaret Seamans in 1930; they had two children, Kay and Peggy.
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Clarence Nash died on February 20,1985, of leukemia in the Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank, California, at the age of 80 and was interred in the San Fernando Mission Cemetery in Mission Hills, Los Angeles, California.
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The tombstone of the grave he now shares with his wife Margaret Clarence Nash depicts a carving of Donald and Daisy Duck holding hands.