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Query: When was the character Donald Duck first introduced by Disney?
Donald Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor shirt and cap with a bow tie. Donald is most famous for his semi-intelligible speech and his mischievous and temperamental personality. Along with his friend Mickey Mouse, Donald is one of the most popular Disney characters and was included in TV Guide's list of the 50 greatest cartoon characters of all time in 2002.[2] He has appeared in more films than any other Disney character,[3] and is the most published comic book character in the world outside of the superhero genre.[4]
This list of Donald Duck universe characters focuses on Disney cartoon characters who typically appear with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck, but are not related to them. For relatives of Donald and Scrooge, see Duck family (Disney) or Clan McDuck. For characters exclusive to the "DuckTales" franchise, see List of "DuckTales" characters.
Ducks are the most common type of named characters in the Donald Duck universe. Like Donald, they appear as white American Pekin ducks. This section contains a list of characters with the surname "Duck" who are not related to Donald. Disney illustrator Don Rosa has said that "Duck" is a common name in Duckburg (just as "Smith" or "Jones" are common in the real-life United States) and does not necessarily identify a blood relation of Donald.
Disney had also licensed the Italian publishing house Mondadori to create stories with the Disney characters as their stars. The first to star Donald, under his Italian name "Paolino Paperino", was "Paolino Paperino e il mistero di Marte" (later reprinted in the United States as "The Secret of Mars", "Donald Duck" #286) by Federico Pedrocchi, first published on December 30, 1937.
José Carioca is a green, Brazilian parrot who first appears in the Disney film "Saludos Amigos" (1942) alongside Donald Duck.
Dimwitty Duck (originally just called Dim-Witty) is a duck who was introduced in the comic story "The Vanishing Banister", where he appears as an assistant of Donald Duck, who in turn appears working as a private detective. Daisy Duck has a brief appearance in the beginning of this one. But there are some old American stories with Dimwitty and Daisy where Donald doesn't appear. In the story "On Disappearing Island", Dimwitty appeared for the first time as Moby's ship hand and from then on he became the most common supporting character in Moby's stories. Dimwitty is incredibly clumsy but he's loyal and subservient, and maybe that's the reason why Moby keeps him as his ship hand. But a close kinship between them could also explain this fact. Dimwitty is taller than Donald and Moby. In some 1970s stories, Dimwitty was shown as a friend of Gus Goose.
Nash discovered buccal speech while trying to mimic his pet goat Mary. In his days before Disney, Nash performed in vaudeville shows where he often spoke in his "nervous baby goat" voice. Later when he auditioned at Walt Disney Productions, Walt Disney interpreted Nash's voice as that of a duck, at which point the idea for Donald Duck came about. Buccal speech was also used by voice actor Red Coffey for the character Quacker in MGM cartoons, and by Jimmy Weldon for the character Yakky Doodle in Hanna-Barbera cartoons.
Donald Duck's 50th Birthday is the 1984 television special broadcast on "The Magical World of Disney" on November 13, 1984 on CBS. As the title suggests, it was produced for the 50th anniversary of the Donald Duck character.
Donald is shown in both animated and live costumed form, interacting with emcee Dick Van Dyke and other cast members. The film not only shows Donald's life, but also depicts an extensive international tour that Donald went on in 1984 as well as showing various celebrities of the day wishing Donald happy birthday. The tour culminates in a parade in Donald's honor at Disneyland. This was the last time Clarence Nash voiced Donald Duck. It was rebroadcast on Disney Channel Europe on November 13, 2004 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the special plus at the end of the special, it has the sign: "Walt Disney 1901–1966 Clarence Nash 1904–1985".In 1984, Donald Duck (in live form) went on an international tour through Europe, Japan and parts of the United States. Some of these stops on his tour actual stage performances attended by other (live) Disney characters. Donald's arrival at airports (on his own plane depicting Donald in flight on the tailfin) was met with colossal crowds that kept getting bigger.
There were also several parades for Donald, and not just at the Disney theme parks. In one, Donald sat in a staff car in his military uniform and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. This scene was also when he was discharged from the US Army.
Donald is also shown having his footprints cast in cement at Grauman's Chinese Theatre in May 1984.
In 1991, the Disney Corporation sued the Israeli caricaturist Dudu Geva for copyright infringement, claiming his character "Donald Dach" in the story "Moby Duck" was a ripoff of Donald.[44] The Courts found in their favor and forced Geva to pay for the legal expenses and remove his book from the shelves. More mildly, the character Howard The Duck's original design was modified to include pants allegedly due to pressure from Disney.[45] In 2005, Donald received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6840 Hollywood Blvd[46] joining other fictional characters such as Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, The Simpsons, Winnie the Pooh, Kermit the Frog, Big Bird, Godzilla and Snow White. Donald's fame has led Disney to license the character for a number of video games, such as the Kingdom Hearts series, where Donald is the court magician of Disney Castle. He accompanies Goofy and a young boy named Sora on a quest to find King Mickey Mouse, defeat the Heartless and Nobodies, and put an end to the evil Xehanort and Organization XIII.[47] He is voiced by Tony Anselmo in the English version and Kōichi Yamadera in the Japanese version. Italian Power Metal Band Trick or Treat have a song called "Like Donald Duck" in their debut album "Evil Needs Candy Too" (2006).[48][49] In Italy, the city of Prato in Tuscany has a locale named Paperino, or Little Duck, after Donald Duck's Italian moniker. Asteroid 12410 was named after Donald Duck.[50] In the 2017 US Presidential election, according to Donna Brazile, DNC chair, who quotes Charlie Baker, the use of a protester in a Donald Duck costume was approved by Hillary Clinton's campaign to bring attention to Donald Trumps' "ducking the release of his taxes".[51]
Herbert is a not especially bright pig friend of Huey, Dewey, and Louie Duck. He first appeared in "Walt Disney's Comics and Stories" #43 in the Donald Duck story entitled "Three Dirty Little Ducks".
Donald Duck is the name of a brand of frozen and refrigerated orange juice by the Florida's Natural Growers agricultural cooperative, which was known as Citrus World from 1969 to 1998, and before that as the Florida Citrus Canners Cooperative. The brand was introduced in 1940 and is the cooperative's oldest brand. Donald Duck, one of Walt Disney's cartoon and comic book characters, is the mascot for the brand. He appears on the packaging and marketing, and in its advertising. For many years Donald Duck also appeared on the juice plant's water storage tank in Lake Wales, until 1998, when the cooperative decided to remove the Donald Duck logo as part of its name change and rebranding.
"A Day in the Life of Donald Duck" is a 1956 episode of the "Disneyland" TV show. As the name of the episode implies, viewers experience Donald Duck himself as he struggles through a typical day at the Walt Disney Studios. In the process, he meets up with Jimmie Dodd, Roy Williams, the Mouseketeers and even his own voice, Clarence Nash. This episode introduces a song about Donald, "Quack, Quack, Quack, Donald Duck." This episode was released on DVD in 2006 as a bonus feature in the Walt Disney Treasures line.
The Duck family is a fictional family of cartoon ducks related to Disney character Donald Duck. The family is also related to the Coot, Goose, and Gander families, as well as the Scottish Clan McDuck. Besides Donald, the best-known members of the Duck family are Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Donald's three nephews.
Donald Duck is an American comic book magazine starring the Disney character Donald Duck and published by various publishers since 1952.
Though a 1931 Disney publication called Mickey Mouse Annual mentioned a character named Donald Duck, the character's first appearance in comic-strip format was a newspaper cartoon that was based on the short The Wise Little Hen and published in 1934.[29] For the next few years, Donald made a few more appearances in Disney-themed strips, and by 1936, he had grown to be one of the most popular characters in the Silly Symphonies comic strip. Ted Osborne was the primary writer of these strips, with Al Taliaferro as his artist. Osborne and Taliaferro also introduced several members of Donald's supporting cast, including his nephews, Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
Elvira "Grandma" Duck (née Coot; born October c. 1855) is Donald's grandmother and the Duck family matriarch. In most stories, she is simply referred to as "Grandma Duck". She was introduced to the Disney comic universe by Al Taliaferro and Bob Karp in the "Donald Duck" newspaper comic strip, first in a picture on the wall in the August 11, 1940, Sunday page, and then as fully fledged character in the strip of Monday, September 27, 1943. Taliaferro found inspiration for her in his own mother-in-law, Donnie M. Wheaton. Depending on the writer, Grandma Duck has had various given names over the years; in a story by Riley Thomson from 1950 she was named "Elviry" and in a story from 1953 she was given the name "Abigail". Don Rosa later gave her the name "Elvira" in his comic books series "The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck".
In 1936, Donald was redesigned to be a bit fuller, rounder, and cuter, the first to feature this design was the cartoon Moving Day. He also began starring in solo cartoons, the first of which was January 9, 1937, Ben Sharpsteen cartoon, Don Donald. This short also introduced a love interest of Donald's, Donna Duck, who evolved into Daisy Duck.[14] Donald's nephews, Huey, Dewey and Louie, would make their first animated appearance a year later in the April 15, 1938, film, Donald's Nephews, directed by Jack King (they had been earlier introduced in the Donald Duck comic strip by Al Taliaferro, see below). By 1938, most polls showed that Donald was more popular than Mickey Mouse.[15] Disney could, however, help Mickey regain popularity by redesigning him, giving him his most appealing design as production for the Fantasia segment "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" began in 1938.
The character Donald Duck was introduced at Disney in 1934, and Spencer began to focus more on Donald than on Mickey. In 1935 Spencer wrote an analysis of Donald which served as the standard for writing for, drawing, and animating the character. Spencer's model sheets included in the report feature a redesigned version of Donald that was shorter and rounder – largely identical to his appearance today. Spencer also included remarks on Donald's personality and mannerisms.
Whitman/Western books Walt Disney's Donald Duck (1935), first published appearance Donald Duck Story Book (1937) Donald Duck Has His Ups and Downs (1937) Donald's Lucky Day (1939), adaptation of the cartoon short of the same name Donald Duck and His Cat Troubles (1948) Bringing up the Boys (1948) Donald Duck's Kite (1949) Donald Duck and the Wishing Star (1952), a Cozy Corner book Donald Duck Goes to Disneyland (1955) Help Wanted (1955) Donald Duck and the Lost Mesa Ranch (1966) Donald Duck: Board Book (1969) Better Little Books Donald Duck Gets Fed Up (1940) Donald Duck Sees Stars (1941) Off the Beam (1943) Headed for Trouble (1943) Donald Duck and Ghost Morgan's Treasure (1946), based on Donald Duck Finds Pirate Gold (1942) Donald Duck and the Green Serpent (1947), based on the comic The Terror of the River!! (1946) Donald Duck Lays Down the Law (1948) Donald Duck in Volcano Valley (1949) Little Golden Books The Great Kite Maker (1949) Donald's Toy Train (1950), based on cartoon short Out of Scale Donald Duck's Adventure (1950), a Mickey Mouse Club book Donald Duck and Santa Claus (1952), a Mickey Mouse Club book Donald Duck and the Witch (1953) Donald Duck's Toy Sailboat (1954), based on the cartoon short Chips Ahoy Donald Duck's Christmas Tree (1954, 1991), based on cartoon short Toy Tinkers Donald Duck's Safety Book (1954) Donald Duck in Disneyland (1955) Donald Duck and the Mouseketeers (1956), a Mickey Mouse Club book Donald Duck and the Christmas Carol (1960) Donald Duck and the Witch Next Door (1971) Disneyland Parade with Donald Duck (1971) Donald Duck: Private Eye (1972) Donald Duck: Prize Driver (1974), a Mickey Mouse Club book America On Parade (1975) Donald Duck and the One Bear (1978), based on the fairy tale Goldilocks and the Three Bears Instant Millionaire (1978) Where's Grandma? (1983), a Golden Stiff It book Donald Duck and the Big Dog (1986) Some Ducks Have All the Luck (1987) Tell-a-Tale Books Donald Duck's Lucky Day (1951) Full Speed Ahead (1953) Donald Duck and the New Birdhouse (1956) Donald Duck in Frontierland (1957) Donald Duck and the Super-Sticky Secret (1985) Tom Sawyer's Island (1985) Little Big Books The Fabulous Diamond Fountain (1967) Luck of the Ducks (1969) Donald Duck in Volcano Valley (1973), reprinting of 1949 Better Little Book The Lost Jungle City (1975) Grosset and Dunlap books Donald Duck (1936) D.C. Heath and Co. books Donald Duck and His Friends (1939), a Disney Health book Donald Duck and His Nephews (1939), a Disney Health book Random House books Donald Duck and the Magic Stick (1974) Donald Duck: Mountain Climber (1978) Donald Duck's Big Surprise (1982) Donald Duck Buys a House (1982) Walt Disney Productions books The Donald Duck Book (1978), a Golden Shape book Grolier/Scholastic books Baby Donald's Day at the Beach (2001) Baby Donald Makes a Snowfriend (2005)
Peter Pig is a fictional pig in Disney short films and comics of the 1930s. He was introduced in "The Wise Little Hen" (1934), in which he was the lazy and greedy friend of his much more famous fellow first-appearance character, Donald Duck. Peter Pig's second and last Disney film appearance was in "The Band Concert" (1935), in which Peter played trumpet and a smaller, similar pig called Paddy Pig played the tuba. Peter later made a cameo in a Toontown scene of "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" during "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile".
Mickey Mouse Club House Donald Duck's Speedboat (cancelled) (1983) Donald Duck's Playground (1984) Donald's Alphabet Chase (1988) Donald The Hero (1988) The Lucky Dime Caper Starring Donald Duck (1991) Quackshot (1991) World of Illusion Starring Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck (1992) Deep Duck Trouble Starring Donald Duck (1993) Donald Duck no Mahō no Bōshi (1995) Disney's Magical Quest 3 starring Mickey & Donald (1995) Donald in Maui Mallard (1995) Donald Duck: Goin' Quackers (2000) Mickey's Speedway USA (2000) Kingdom Hearts (2002) Disney Golf (2002) Disney's PK: Out of the Shadows (2002) Kingdom Hearts Final Mix (2002) Toontown Online (2003) Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories (2004) Kingdom Hearts II (2005) Donald Duck Quest (2006) Kingdom Hearts II Final Mix (2007) Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories (2007) Duckburg P.D.: Donald on Duty (2007) Donald Duck Quest Deluxe (2007) Disney Think Fast (2008) Donald Duck Chaos of the Road (2008) Phantom Duck (2008) Kingdom Hearts coded (2008–2010) Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days (2009) Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010) Kingdom Hearts Re:coded (2010) Epic Mickey (2010) Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance (2012) Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two (2012) Disney Infinity 2.0 (2014) Kingdom Hearts III (2018)
When Disney lawyers later questioned the agreement in the 1970s, the university produced a photo showing Harris and Disney wearing matching jackets with an Oregon Donald logo. Relying on the photo as evidence of Disney's wishes, in 1973, both parties signed a formal agreement granting the university the right to use Donald's likeness as a symbol for (and restricted to) Oregon sports. The agreement gave Disney control over where the mascot could perform and ensured that the performer inside the costume would "properly represent the Donald Duck character."
Donald Duck (Kalle Anka in Sweden,[31] Anders And in Denmark, Andrés Önd in Iceland, Donald Duck in Norway,[32] and Aku Ankka in Finland[31]) is a very popular character in Nordic countries. In the mid-1930s, Robert S. Hartman, a German who served as a representative of Walt Disney, visited Sweden to supervise the merchandise distribution of Sagokonst (The Art of Fables). Hartman found a studio called L'Ateljé Dekoratör, which produced illustrated cards that were published by Sagokonst. Since the Disney characters on the cards appeared to be exactly 'on-model', Hartman asked the studio to create a local version of the English-language Mickey Mouse Weekly. In 1937 L'Ateljé Dekoratör began publishing Musse Pigg Tidningen (Mickey Mouse Magazine), which had high production values and spanned 23 issues; most of the magazine's content came from local producers, while some material consisted of reprints from Mickey Mouse Weekly. The comic anthology ended in 1938. Hartman helped Disney establish offices in all Nordic countries before he left Disney in 1941. Donald became the most popular of the Disney characters in the Nordic countries,[31] and Nordic peoples recognise him better than Mickey Mouse. Kalle Anka & Co, Donald's first dedicated Swedish anthology, started in September 1948. In 2001 the Finnish Post Office issued a stamp set to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Donald's presence in Finland. By 2005 around one out of every four Norwegians read the Norwegian edition Donald Duck & Co. per week, translating to around 1.3million regular readers. During the same year, every week 434,000 Swedes read Kalle Anka & Co. By 2005 in Finland the Donald Duck anthology Aku Ankka sold 270,000 copies per issue. Tim Pilcher and Brad Books, authors of The Essential Guide to World Comics, described the Donald anthologies as "the Scandinavian equivalent of the UK's Beano or Dandy, a comic that generations have grown up with, from grandparents to grandchildren".[31]
Witch Hazel is a fictional character appearing in productions of The Walt Disney Company. She first appeared in the Donald Duck cartoon "Trick or Treat" in 1952, voiced by June Foray, where she helps Huey, Dewey, and Louie get candy from Donald. She also appeared in the Carl Barks's comic book adaptation and two sequels to that story, "Too Late for Christmas" in "Donald Duck Adventures" (Gladstone Series) #30 in December 1994 and "The Poorest Duck in Duckburg" in "Donald Duck Adventures" (Gladstone Series) #35 in October 1995.
Rota made his first Disney comic using the Mickey Mouse character in 1971. He would go on, however, to work primarily with Donald Duck and Scrooge McDuck stories. His most well-known Disney-related work is Andold "Wild Duck" Temerary, Donald's dark age Scottish alter ego; as well as the story "From Egg To Duck" (, 1984), Donald's biography.
Donald Duck went on to become one of the most famous cartoon characters in the world, a great part of this due to Nash's voice. The voice is distinctive both for its ducklike quality and the fact that it is often very difficult for anybody to understand, especially when Donald flew into a rage (which happened fairly often). To keep Donald's voice consistent throughout the world, Nash voiced the character in all foreign languages the Disney shorts were translated to (with the aid of the phonetic alphabet), meaning Donald retained his same level of incoherency all across the globe. "Mad" magazine, in its 1950s comic-strip style satire of Disney characters, featured a "translation" of "Darnold" Duck's "quacky, incomprehensible" voice.