76 Facts About Donald Duck

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created by The Walt Disney Company.

Donald Duck typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie.

Donald Duck is known for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous, temperamental, and pompous personality.

Donald Duck has appeared in more films than any other Disney character, and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.

However, since then Donald Duck has appeared in direct-to-video features such as Mickey, Donald Duck, Goofy: The Three Musketeers, television series such as Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, and video games such as QuackShot .

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Donald Duck was most famously drawn by Al Taliaferro, Carl Barks, and Don Rosa.

Character of Donald Duck is portrayed as a very impatient, immature, and arrogant duck with a pessimistic attitude and an insecure disposition.

Many Donald Duck shorts start with Donald Duck in a happy mood, without a care in the world until something comes along and spoils his day.

Donald Duck's rage is a great cause of suffering in his life.

Donald Duck is something of a prankster, and as a result, he can sometimes come across as a bit of a bully, especially in the way he sometimes treats Chip n' Dale and Huey, Dewey and Louie, his nephews.

Donald Duck's nephews appear in the form of angels, and he willingly endures a kick by one of them—that is, of course, until he realizes he has been tricked, whereupon he promptly loses his temper.

Donald Duck has a few memorable phrases that he occasionally comes out with in certain situations.

Donald Duck makes several attempts to defeat the shark, each of which proves ineffective, but then finally triumphs and defeats the shark with a single well-placed punch.

Additionally, as discussed below, Donald had a stint in the U S Army during World War II that culminated with him serving as a commando in the film Commando Duck, and he was frequently away serving in the U S Navy in the television cartoon series DuckTales.

In most Disney theatrical cartoons, Mickey and Donald Duck are shown as friends and have little to no rivalry .

Donald Duck is then arrested for the kidnapping of Mickey, as he is considered to be the chief suspect, due to their feud.

However, Donald Duck did later get the charges dismissed, due to lack of evidence.

However, Donald Duck has a change of heart when Daisy reminds Donald Duck how Mickey has always been there to support him.

Since then, Donald Duck accepted that Mickey was the founder and worked with Mickey as a partner to make the club profitable and successful.

Donald Duck has numerous enemies, who range from comical foil to annoying nemesis: Chip 'n' Dale, Pete, Humphrey the Bear, Spike the Bee, Mountain Lion Louie, Bootle Beetle, Witch Hazel, Aracuan Bird and Baby Shelby .

Donald Duck's personality is not developed either; in the short, he only fills the role of the unhelpful friend from the original story.

Donald Duck is one of a number of characters who are giving performances in a benefit for Mickey's Orphans.

In 1936, Donald Duck was redesigned to be a bit fuller, rounder, and cuter, beginning with the cartoon Moving Day.

Donald Duck began starring in solo cartoons, the first of which was Ben Sharpsteen's 1937 cartoon, Don Donald.

Thanks in part to these films, Donald Duck graced the nose artwork of virtually every type of World War II Allied combat aircraft, from the L-4 Grasshopper to the B-29 Superfortress.

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Donald Duck appeared as a mascot emblem for the 415th Fighter Squadron; 438th Fighter Squadron; 479th Bombardment Squadron; and 531st Bombardment Squadron.

Donald Duck appeared as the mascot for the Fire Department at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, as well as the Army Air Forces 319 Aircraft Maintenance Unit at Luke Air Force Base — where he is seen wearing an old-style pilot's uniform with a board with a nail in it in one hand, and a lightning bolt in the other hand.

The Ruptured Donald Duck's pilot survived, with the loss of a leg, and later wrote about the Doolittle Raid in the book, later to be the 1944 movie, Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo.

Donald Duck decided to make a trip through various Latin American countries with his assistants, and use their experiences and impressions to create two feature-length animation films.

Donald Duck is seen repeatedly attacked, harassed, and ridiculed by his nephews, by the chipmunks Chip 'n' Dale, or by other characters such as Humphrey the Bear, Spike the Bee, Bootle Beetle, the Aracuan Bird, Louie the Mountain Lion, or a colony of ants.

Post-war Donald Duck starred in educational films, such as Donald Duck in Mathmagic Land and How to Have an Accident at Work, and made cameos in various Disney projects, such as The Reluctant Dragon and the Disneyland television show .

In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Donald has a piano duel scene with his Warner Brothers counterpart Daffy Duck voiced by Mel Blanc.

Donald Duck has since appeared in several different television shows and animated movies.

Donald Duck played roles in The Prince and the Pauper and made a cameo appearance in A Goofy Movie .

Donald Duck made some cameo appearances in Bonkers, before getting his own television show Quack Pack.

Donald Duck was no longer wearing his sailor suit and hat, but a Hawaiian shirt.

Daisy Donald Duck has lost her pink dress and bow and has a new haircut.

Donald Duck made a comeback as the star of the "Noah's Ark" segment of Fantasia 2000, as first mate to Noah.

Donald Duck tragically believes that Daisy has been lost, while she believes the same of him, but they are reunited at the end.

Donald Duck played an important role in Mickey Mouse Works and House of Mouse.

Donald Duck is part of the ensemble cast of characters in the TV show Mickey Mouse Clubhouse as well.

Donald Duck appears in the new 3-minute Mickey Mouse TV shorts for Disney Channel.

Donald Duck is temporarily hired by Scrooge's rival Flintheart Glomgold and ends up at the city of Atlantis, where Scrooge has brought the boys.

Donald Duck owns a boat in the series, which is relocated to Scrooge's pool at the conclusion of the series premiere.

Later in the series, it is revealed that Donald Duck's anger is the result of a fear that no one can understand him, though with the help of an anger management counselor and while taking care of Huey, Dewey, Louie, he was able to channel it into protective instinct.

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Donald Duck did continue to provide Donald's voice for commercials, promos, and other miscellaneous material until he died in 1985.

Since Nash died, Donald Duck's voice has been performed by Disney animator, Tony Anselmo, who was mentored by Nash for the role.

Anselmo's first performance as Donald Duck is heard in a 1986 D-TV special, D-TV Valentine on The Disney Channel, and in his first feature film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, in 1988.

TV series Mickey and the Roadster Racers, later named Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures, Donald was voiced by voice actor Daniel Ross, while Anselmo continues as the official voice of Donald on all other Disney projects, DuckTales, Mickey Mouse shorts, Legend of the Three Caballeros, Kingdom Hearts III, Disney Parks, attractions, and consumer products.

Donald Duck comics have been produced in The Netherlands and France.

Donald Duck has been appeared in Japanese comics published by Kodansha and Tokyopop.

Osborne and Taliaferro introduced several members of Donald Duck's supporting cast, including his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Donald Duck got a new St Bernard named Bolivar, and his family grew to include cousin Gus Goose and grandmother Elvira Coot.

Under his pen, Donald Duck became more adventurous, less temperamental and more eloquent.

At this point, Barks concentrated his major efforts on the Scrooge stories, and Donald Duck's appearances became more focused on comedy or he was recast as Scrooge's helper, following his rich uncle around the globe.

One example is Donald Duck's alter ego, a superhero called Paperinik in Italian, created in 1969 by Guido Martina and Giovan Battista Carpi .

Donald Duck lost his spaceship and befriended Scrooge, and now is allowed to search through his money bin time after time, looking for his ship.

One of the most productive Donald Duck artists used to be Victor Arriagada Rios, better known under the name Vicar.

Donald Duck had his own studio where he and his assistants drew the stories sent in by Egmont.

Donald Duck's stayed and is still seen in occasional modern stories.

Donald Duck started doing Disney comics in 1987 for the American publisher Gladstone.

Donald Duck later worked briefly for the Dutch editors but moved to work directly for Egmont soon afterwards.

Donald Duck's stories contain many direct references to stories by Carl Barks, and he wrote and illustrated a 12-part series of stories about the life of Scrooge McDuck, which won him two Eisner Awards.

Donald Duck is known in Nordic countries as Kalle Anka in Sweden, Anders And in Denmark, Andres Ond in Iceland, Donald Duck in Norway, and Aku Ankka in Finland.

Donald Duck became the most successful of the Disney characters in the Nordic countries, and Nordic peoples recognise him better than Mickey Mouse.

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In 1985, Donald Duck received 291 votes in an election for the Parliament of Sweden.

Matti Holopainen jokingly criticized Donald Duck for living with Daisy while not being married to her, for not wearing trousers, and for, in the words of the Library Journal, being "too bourgeois".

Donald Duck has strengths and weaknesses; he lacks polish but is very cultured and well-read.

However, the constant search for an outlet to vent his frustration led the Italian rendition of Donald Duck to seek his catharsis in several ways: in the sixties, vexed by Scrooge's antics and Gladstone's luck, he reinvented himself as Paperinik, the Duck Avenger, an anti-hero at first, a self-assured, well-adjusted, brilliant hero in later stories, no longer bound by the self-doubt and the mockery Donald is constantly subjected.

Donald Duck Avenger is referred to the character Dorellik performed by Johnny Dorelli in the Anglo-Italian movie Arriva Dorellik .

Donald Duck keeps a cheerful rivalry with his neighbour Bum Bum Ghigno, more a bumbler and a nuisance than he is, but still a good person at heart.

Donald Duck appears in the Topolino comics depicting his childhood, called Paperino Paperotto, which were first produced in Italy in 1998.

Donald Duck has played a major role in many Disney theme parks over the years.

Donald Duck has actually been seen in more attractions and shows at the parks than Mickey Mouse has.

Donald Duck has appeared over the years in such attractions as Animagique, Mickey Mouse Revue, Mickey's PhilharMagic, Disneyland: The First 50 Magical Years, Gran Fiesta Tour Starring the Three Caballeros and the updated version of "It's a Small World".

Donald Duck has been a frequent character in children's books beginning in 1935.