Scrooge's first voice actor

[Baar Baar Jinx]

To resurrect a thread from the old DCF, Scrooge's first voice actor, who doesn't get mentioned very often, was actually Dal McKennon, who played him in a segment on a 1960 Disneyland record. You can hear the recording here.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 25, 2017 14:44:17 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

To resurrect a thread from the old DCF, Scrooge's first voice actor, who doesn't get mentioned very often, was actually Dal McKennon, who played him in a segment on a 1960 Disneyland record. You can hear the recording here.

Hmm! Very different from the later Ryan-Young-Tennant tradition, but I like it!

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 25, 2017 14:57:13 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Aug 25, 2017 14:44:17 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

To resurrect a thread from the old DCF, Scrooge's first voice actor, who doesn't get mentioned very often, was actually Dal McKennon, who played him in a segment on a 1960 Disneyland record. You can hear the recording here.

Hmm! Very different from the later Ryan-Young-Tennant tradition, but I like it!

This would be a great voice to give a character like Fergus or Jake McDuck.

Of course, if you consider the "proto-Scrooge" from "Spirit of '43" as a precursor to the character, then the distinction of being the "first voice of Scrooge" would go to whoever portrayed him. I couldn't figure out who that was.
The "is the thrifty duck from "Spirit of '43 really an inspiration for Scrooge" debate has been raging for decades with no definite answer, but Barks has been credited as working on the short. Does anyone know if he had a hand in designing the old duck character? If so, it strengthens the idea that this was where the idea for Scrooge was born, to be fully realized four years later in "Christmas on Bear Mountain". 

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 25, 2017 16:13:14 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

The "is the thrifty duck from "Spirit of '43 really an inspiration for Scrooge" debate has been raging for decades with no definite answer, but Barks has been credited as working on the short. Does anyone know if he had a hand in designing the old duck character? If so, it strengthens the idea that this was where the idea for Scrooge was born, to be fully realized four years later in "Christmas on Bear Mountain". 

Ah, that old thing. On the French wiki, we eventually came to the consensus that in-universe (sicne the Thrifty Duck is, after all, a hallucination), he looks like Scrooge because he's based on Donald's childhood memories of Scrooge, exaggerated to the point of comedy. 

[drakeborough]

Aug 25, 2017 16:13:14 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

The "is the thrifty duck from "Spirit of '43 really an inspiration for Scrooge" debate has been raging for decades with no definite answer, but Barks has been credited as working on the short.

Is there a source for this claim? The Italian equivalent of the Barks library has a list of the shorts on which Barks worked, and "Spirit of '43" is not listed; the same thing is true for the list that can be found on the English Wikipedia article about Barks.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 27, 2017 10:24:17 GMT drakeborough said:

Aug 25, 2017 16:13:14 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

The "is the thrifty duck from "Spirit of '43 really an inspiration for Scrooge" debate has been raging for decades with no definite answer, but Barks has been credited as working on the short.

Is there a source for this claim? The Italian equivalent of the Barks library has a list of the shorts on which Barks worked, and "Spirit of '43" is not listed; the same thing is true for the list that can be found on the English Wikipedia article about Barks.

IMDB. Not sure how trustworthy this is, though.

[RobbK1]

Aug 27, 2017 12:12:27 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Aug 27, 2017 10:24:17 GMT drakeborough said:

Is there a source for this claim? The Italian equivalent of the Barks library has a list of the shorts on which Barks worked, and "Spirit of '43" is not listed; the same thing is true for the list that can be found on the English Wikipedia article about Barks.

IMDB. Not sure how trustworthy this is, though.

I'm also not.  Barks quit working for The Walt Disney Studios in mid 1942.  I'd bet that "The Spirit of '43 was started after he left.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Aug 27, 2017 21:55:33 GMT RobbK1 said:

Aug 27, 2017 12:12:27 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

IMDB. Not sure how trustworthy this is, though.

I'm also not.  Barks quit working for The Walt Disney Studios in mid 1942.  I'd bet that "The Spirit of '43 was started after he left.

Good point. We may lay that old rumor to rest here. On the other hand, that's not proof the old duck isn't Scrooge — Barks and others were advised to take inspiration from the ongoing cartoons, at least at first, not to mention I can't imagine Barks didn't receive the occasional word from his old pal Jack Hannah of what was going on in the animation studios.