Biography for
James MacDonald (II) More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

19 May 1906, Dundee, Tayside, Scotland, UK

Date of Death

1 February 1991, Glendale, California, USA (heart failure)

Birth Name

John James MacDonald

Nickname

Jimmy

Trade Mark

A sound effects man/musician/voice-over artists for Walt Disney Studios, for over 40 yrs. Plus + the 2nd voice of Mickey Mouse.

Trivia

Sound effects man, voice of 'Mickey Mouse' from 1946-1976.

Died of heart failure in Glendale CA at age 84.

He was a drummer, both before and during his Disney years. 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 creating sound effects for Disney cartoons. Occassionally, his interests in music and crazy sounds would come together, as in the cartoon "Symphony Hour."

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