Clarence Nash

Clarence Nash

actor, writer, additional crew

Clarence Nash was born on Dec 07, 1904 in USA. Clarence Nash's big-screen debut came with Gulliver Mickey directed by Burt Gillett in 1934, strarring Giant Spider (voice, uncredited). Clarence Nash is known for Mickey's Christmas Carol directed by Burny Mattinson, Alan Young stars as Scrooge and Wayne Allwine as Bob Cratchit - Mickey Mouse. The most recent award Clarence Nash achieved is Annie Awards. The upcoming new movie Clarence Nash plays is Mickey's Christmas Carol which will be released on Dec 16, 1983.

He began imitating birds and various barnyard animals as a child growing up in Watonga, Oklahoma. In his teens his family moved to Southern California where he got a promotional job with a dairy company and in between jobs performed animal imitations at various Los Angeles schools. In 1934 hearing that Walt Disney was looking for bird and animal recordings for his cartoons Clarence went to the studios and went through his repertoire of voices during which Walt walked in and said "That fellow sounds like a duck, lets keep him in mind if we ever create a duck character"It wasn't long after that , that Donald Duck made his debut in "The Wise Little Hen" with Clarence providing his voice. When the film was finished and shown Donald stood out so prominently that he was put into the Mickey Mouse film "Orphan's Benefit" and soon after was getting star billing in his own films and has been in more than Mickey.With the help of language coaches Clarence has quacked in Spanish, French, German, Swedish, Dutch, Portugese and Japanese.

  • Birthday

    Dec 07, 1904
  • Place of Birth

    Watonga, Oklahoma, USA

Known For

Awards

1 wins & 0 nominations

Annie Awards
1983
Winner - Winsor McCay Award

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