John James MacDonald Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
James MacDonald was born on May 19, 1906 in Dundee, Tayside, Scotland as John James MacDonald. He is known for his work on Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and The Rescuers (1977). He was married to Roberta MacDonald. He died on February 1, 1991 in Glendale, California, USA.
A sound effects man/musician/voice-over artists for Walt Disney Studios, for over 40 yrs. Plus + the 2nd voice of Mickey Mouse.
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[on taking over the voice of Mickey Mouse from Walt Disney] Walt called me, I was on the stage here and a girl called me and said, "can you come up? Walt wants to see you." It was in the middle of the Mickey and the Beanstalk (1947) and I went up and he said, "I can't do it anymore. I'm just too busy." So, he asked me if I could do a Mickey voice and I tried it and he said, "Yeah, that sounds pretty good."
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Walt Disney gave us the time to build them and go around and just build things. Anything we wanted we could make.
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I worked on many pictures and never knew the names of the things. I'd be down there doing the effects and the name wasn't really important to me, as it was to the animators.
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Fact
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He once estimated that he created over 28,000 sound effects for 139 feature films and 335 cartoon shorts while he was employed at Disney.
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He was the oldest actor to voice Mickey Mouse, at the age of 40. Walt Disney, Wayne Allwine, and Bret Iwan were under the age of 40 when each of them voiced Mickey for the first time.
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Made one of his few onscreen appearances in Disney's Fantasia (1940), as, presumably, a percussionist for The Philadelphia Orchestra. Actually, the Philadelphia Orchestra was not seen onscreen in the film; Disney voice artists and staff members "portrayed" members of the orchestra in the film (mostly in silhouette).
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He was a drummer, both before and during his Disney years. In order to increase his musical versatility, 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 (1942)..
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Sound effects man, voice of 'Mickey Mouse' from 1947-1977.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Rescuers
1977
Evinrude (voice, as James Macdonald)
The Mickey Mouse Anniversary Show
1968
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1955-1968
TV Series
Mickey Mouse
Chip
The Adventures of Bullwhip Griffin
1967
Saloon Percussionist (uncredited)
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
1966
Short
Bees (voice, uncredited)
The Sword in the Stone
1963
The Wolf (voice, uncredited)
Toby Tyler, or Ten Weeks with a Circus
1960
Drummer (uncredited)
Noah's Ark
1959
Short
Animal Sounds (voice)
In the Bag
1956
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice, uncredited)
Hooked Bear
1956
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice)
Chips Ahoy
1956
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Up a Tree
1955
Short
Chip (voice)
Beezy Bear
1955
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice)
Bearly Asleep
1955
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice, uncredited)
Grin and Bear It
1954
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice)
Dragon Around
1954
Short
Chip (voice)
The Lone Chipmunks
1954
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Working for Peanuts
1953
Short
Chip (voice)
Rugged Bear
1953
Short
Humphrey the Bear (voice)
The Simple Things
1953
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Pluto's Christmas Tree
1952
Short
Chip
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Pluto's Party
1952
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice)
Two Chips and a Miss
1952
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Donald Applecore
1952
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Out of Scale
1951
Short
Chip (voice)
R'coon Dawg
1951
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Alice in Wonderland
1951
Dormouse (voice)
Test Pilot Donald
1951
Short
Chip (voice)
Plutopia
1951
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Corn Chips
1951
Short
Chip (voice)
Chicken in the Rough
1951
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Out on a Limb
1950
Short
Chip (voice)
Food for Feudin'
1950
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Suspense
1950
TV Series
Jeff
Trailer Horn
1950
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Crazy Over Daisy
1950
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
Cinderella
1950
Jaq
Gus
Bruno (voice, as James Macdonald)
Toy Tinkers
1949
Short
Chip (voice, uncredited)
All in a Nutshell
1949
Short
Chip (voice)
Winter Storage
1949
Short
Chip (voice)
Mickey and the Seal
1948
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Three for Breakfast
1948
Short
Chip (voice)
Pluto's Purchase
1948
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice)
Mickey Down Under
1948
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice, uncredited)
Chip an' Dale
1947
Short
Chip (voice)
Pueblo Pluto
1947
Short
Mickey Mouse (voice)
Squatter's Rights
1946
Short
Chip (voice)
Private Pluto
1943
Short
Chip (voice)
The Reluctant Dragon
1941/I
Sound Effects Man (uncredited)
Fantasia
1940
Percussionist (uncredited)
The Cowboy Star
1936
Still Photographer (uncredited)
Sound Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Black Hole
1979
special sound effects
The Rescuers
1977
sound effects: Evinrude - uncredited
Robin Hood
1973
sound effects - uncredited
Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree
1966
Short sound effects - uncredited
Jungle Cat
1959
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
White Wilderness
1958
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
Perri
1957
sound effects - uncredited
Secrets of Life
1956
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
The African Lion
1955
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
The Vanishing Prairie
1954
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
The Living Desert
1953
Documentary sound effects - uncredited
Prowlers of the Everglades
1953
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
Bear Country
1953
Short documentary sound effects - uncredited
Peter Pan
1953
sound effects - uncredited
Water Birds
1952
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
The Olympic Elk
1952
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
Nature's Half Acre
1951
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
Beaver Valley
1950
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
1949
sound effects - uncredited
Honey Harvester
1949
Short sound effects - uncredited
Seal Island
1948
Documentary short sound effects - uncredited
Inferior Decorator
1948
Short sound effects - uncredited
Bambi
1942
sound effects - uncredited
Dumbo
1941
sound effects - uncredited
Baggage Buster
1941
Short animal sound effects - uncredited
Mickey's Trailer
1938
Short sound effects - uncredited
Music Department
Title
Year
Status
Character
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
1971
assistant to conductor
The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band
1968
assistant to conductor - as James Macdonald
Mary Poppins
1964
assistant to conductor - as James Macdonald
Soundtrack
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song
1992
Video documentary performer: "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo"
Cinderella
1950
performer: "The Work Song" - uncredited
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
1937
performer: "The Silly Song" 1937 - uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Banjo the Woodpile Cat
1979
TV Short special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
It All Started with a Mouse: The Disney Story
1989
TV Movie
Himself - Sound Effects (as Jimmy MacDonald)
The South Bank Show
1988
TV Series documentary
Himself - Sound Effects
The Disney Family Album
1984
TV Series documentary
Himself
L'ami public numéro un
1962
TV Series
Himself
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color
1961
TV Series
Himself
Tuberculosis
1945
Documentary short
Coughs (voice, uncredited)
How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made
1939
Documentary short
Himself (uncredited)
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
Animation Sound Design: Building Worlds from the Sound Up
2008
Video documentary short
Himself
It's a Small World of Fun
2006
Video
House of Mouse
2002
TV Series
Chip
Humphrey the Bear
Mickey Mouse
Disney's 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs': Still the Fairest of Them All
2001
Video documentary short
Himself (as Jimmy Macdonald)
The Music of Disney: A Legacy in Song
1992
Video documentary
Gus / Jacques
Disney's Cartoon Arcade
1990
Video Game
Chip (uncredited)
Disney Sing-Along-Songs: Very Merry Christmas Songs
$1.2 Million
