Biography for
Clarence Nash More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

7 December 1904, Watonga, Oklahoma, USA

Date of Death

20 February 1985, Glendale, California, USA (leukemia)

Birth Name

Clarence Charles Nash

Nickname

Ducky

Height

5' 2" (1.57 m)

Spouse

Margaret Seamans

(25 January 1930 - 20 February 1985) (his death) 2 children

Trade Mark

The voice of Donald Duck

Trivia

Voice of 'Donald Duck' for 50 years

Voiced Daisy Duck, Donald's girlfriend; and Huey, Dewey, and Louie, his nephews, in a higher octave.

4th cousin twice removed of Scott Trimble.

He based Donald Duck's voice on a sound made by his pet goat Mary, who would make a "wa-ah-ah-ah" sound whenever she needed to be fed by bottle. In fact, it was a goat, not a duck, that he was playing on the radio when Disney heard him for the first time.

He dubbed the voice of Donald Duck into French, Spanish, Portugese, Japanese, German and Chinese. None of these languages could he understand - Nash had the words written out phonetically and gabbled them in 'Duckspeak'.

He also did the voice of Jiminy Cricket after Cliff Edwards died.

Scuba divers coined the affect of helium gas on the human voice as "The Donald Duck Effect".

Profiled in "American Classic Screen Interviews" (Scarecrow Press). [2010]