MacDONALD, Jim

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Birth/Death

Birth: May 19th 1906 in Scotland
Death: February 1st

Occupation/Title

Bio Summary

Early Life/Family

Education/Training

Career Outline

MacDonald got his start with the Disney Studios by serving as a drummer for the Mickey Mouse short "The Band Concert." In order to increase his musical versitility, be began collecting odd gadgets and instruments to augment his rhythms. These gadgets formed the seeds of his career in becoming the first, and eventually lead, effects man at Disney. He also played the jugs and ocarina on the sound track of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." In addition to his skills in sound effects he also served as a voice actor for many characters. Perhaps most notable, he was the second person to serve as the voice of Mickey Mouse, as well as the voice of Evinrude (the dragonfly) from "The Rescuers." There is not a lot of information on his life as a biography, but I was fortunate to find a pretty extensive filmography on his career as a voice actor and a sound effects artist.

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Actor - filmography


Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) (voice) (uncredited) .... Yodeling Man
Fantasia (1940) (uncredited) .... Percussionist
The Reluctant Dragon (1941) (uncredited) .... Sound Effects Man
... aka A Day at Disneys (USA: TV title) 
... aka Behind the Scenes at Walt Disney Studio
Private Pluto (1943) (voice) .... Chip
Chip an' Dale (1947) (voice) .... Chip
Mickey Down Under (1948) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Mickey and the Seal (1948) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Pueblo Pluto (1949) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
All in a Nutshell (1949) (voice) .... Chip
Toy Tinkers (1949) (voice) (uncredited) .... Chip
Cinderella (1950) (voice) .... Gus/Jaq/Bruno
Chicken in the Rough (1951) (voice) .... Chip
Corn Chips (1951) (voice) .... Chip
Plutopia (1951) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Alice in Wonderland (1951) (voice) .... Dormouse
R'coon Dawg (1951) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Pluto's Party (1952) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Pluto's Christmas Tree (1952) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse/Chip
The Simple Things (1953) (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Rugged Bear (1953) (voice) .... Humphrey the Bear
Grin and Bear It (1954) (voice) .... Humphrey the Bear
Bearly Asleep (1955) (voice) .... Humphrey the Bear
Beezy Bear (1955) (voice) .... Humphrey the Bear
Chips Ahoy (1956) (voice) .... Chip
Hooked Bear (1956) (voice) .... Humphrey the Bear
"Disneyland" 
... aka Disney's Wonderful World (USA: new title) 
... aka The Disney Sunday Movie (USA: new title) 
... aka The Magical World of Disney (USA: new title) 
... aka The Wonderful World of Disney (USA: new title) 
... aka Walt Disney (USA: new title) 
... aka Walt Disney Presents (USA: new title) 
... aka Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (USA: new title) 
- The Plausible Impossible (1956) TV Episode (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
- The Adventures of Mickey Mouse (1955) TV Episode (voice) .... Mickey Mouse
Noah's Ark (1959) (voice)
Mary Poppins (1964) (voice) (uncredited) .... Penguins, Guard, News Reporter, Photographer
The Rescuers (1977) (voice) .... Evinrude
Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001) (V) .... Mickey Mouse, Pluto, Chip (segment "Pluto's Christmas Tree"


Sound Department - filmography

"The Mickey Mouse Club" (1955) TV Series (sound) (as Jimmy MacDonald) 
The Black Hole (1979) (sound effects)


Miscellaneous Crew - filmography

Fantasia (1940) (musician: percussion) (uncredited)
Mary Poppins (1964) (assistant to conductor) (as James Macdonald) 
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) (assistant to conductor)
... aka Bedknobs and Broomsticks: 25th Anniversary Special Edition (USA: longer version)


Influences

Personality

Anecdotes

Miscellaneous

Filmography


Honors

Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 1985

Related Links

A-HAA: Biography: Clair Weeks' Goodbye Book 1952

Bibliographic References

BIO-AAA-478

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