Jimmy MacDonald

John James "Jimmy" MacDonald was a British-born American foley artist, voice actor, musician, conductor, and the original head of Walt Disney Productions' sound effects department. He was also the voice of Mickey Mouse from 1947 to 1977.
In addition to directing sounds for animated shorts as aurally complicated as Mickey's Trailer, MacDonald developed many original inventions and contraptions to achieve expressive sounds for characters, like Evinrude the dragonfly from The Rescuers, the bees in Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree, and Spike the bee who gets the best of Donald Duck in the 1950s cartoon shorts.
MacDonald also added voice effects, like on-screen humming for Kirk Douglas in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
By 1947, Walt Disney was getting too busy and too hoarse from smoking to continue voicing Mickey Mouse, so he was replaced by MacDonald, after the film Fun and Fancy Free. (A common misconception is that MacDonald had voiced additional dialogue shared with Disney in that film.) MacDonald voiced the mouse on a regular basis up until 1953 (Disney had briefly taken over for The Mickey Mouse Club) and a recurring one until his retirement in 1977, when he was replaced by young Disney sound effects man Wayne Allwine for The New Mickey Mouse Club. Allwine's first theatrical role for Mickey was in Mickey's Christmas Carol.
MacDonald was also the voice of Goofy at one time, where he provided his voice in the 1960s Disney record album Donald Duck and His Friends.
MacDonald also provided the voice for Jaq and Gus and Bruno the dog in Cinderella and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party, the Dormouse in Alice in Wonderland, Humphrey the Bear, and the Wolf in The Sword in the Stone. He also appeared in Toby Tyler as a circus band drummer but was uncredited.
MacDonald also played drums for the Firehouse Five Plus Two jazz band on and off from its inception until it was disbanded in the early 1970s.
In 1993, he was posthumously inducted as a Disney Legend.
==Roles==
Kit-imprimible-candy-bar-varios-personajes-a-eleccion-5714-MLA4995949056 092013-F.jpg|Mickey Mouse(1947–1977)
Apr189.gif|Goofy(Lion Down and Donald Duck and His Friends)http://voicechasers.com/database/showprod.php?prodid=3929
Donald-duck-disney-photo-450x400-dcp-cpna013154.jpg|Donald Duck (mule kick sounds) (Trick or Treat)
Unnamedbear.jpg|Bear(Good Scouts, Donald's Vacation, and Dumb Bell of the Yukon)
599933-dopey large.jpg|Dopey (some vocal effects)(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Sneezy transparent.png|Sneezy (additional sounds)(Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs)
Bigbadwolf.png|Big Bad Wolf(1958)
Hop the Grasshopper.jpg|Hop the Grasshopper(1960 record)
Donald Duck and the Gorilla 1249571376 1 1944.jpg|Ajax the Gorilla(Donald Duck and the Gorilla)
Badwolf.jpg|Wolf(Make Mine Music, Lambert the Sheepish Lion)
Lambert2.png|Lambert(Lambert the Sheepish Lion)(roars and only one line of dialogue)
Fun-disneyscreencaps com-1076.jpg|Bongo the Bear(Fun and Fancy Free)
Lumpjaw.webp|Lumpjaw(Fun and Fancy Free)
Dolores-elephant.jpg|Dolores the Elephant(The Big Wash and Working for Peanuts)
Orville.jpg|Orville the Baby Bird(Pluto's Fledgling)
Louiethelion.PNG|Louie the Mountain Lion(1950-1989)
Humphrey bear.jpg|Humphrey the Bear(1950-1989)
Rhinocerous.jpg|Rhinoceros(African Diary)
Spike the Bee.jpg|Spike the Bee(1940-1966)
Morris the Midget Moose 1247589272 2 1950.jpg|Morris the Midget Moose
Jaq and Gus.jpg|Jaq and Gus(original film and Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse's Birthday Party)
Bruno2.png|Bruno(original film) 
Darrel.jpg|Dormouse(Alice in Wonderland)
Profile - Hedgehog.jpg|Hedgehogs(Alice in Wonderland)
Profile - Captain Hook.jpeg|Captain Hook(Peter Pan's Flight)
PPDE tattoos FI-008 (1).png|Tick-Tock the Crocodile(snapping)
1953-neighbor-4.jpg|Muncey(The New Neighbor)
Sleeping-beauty-disneyscreencaps com-8043.jpg|Dragon Maleficent(growl/jaw snapping sound effects)
The Wolf (The Sword in the Stone).png|Wolf(The Sword in the Stone)
Winnie-the-pooh-disneyscreencaps.com-1300.jpg|The Bees(Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree)
Willie the Giant.jpg|Willie the Giant(1963)
Ned Land profile.jpg|Ned Land(humming vocal only)
Bagheera depromo.png|Bagheera(original film; vocal effects)
Shere Khan.png|Shere Khan(original film; vocal effects)
Tumblr nande2VPgs1r3jmn6o1 1280.png|Evinrude(The Rescuers)
Rescuers-disneyscreencaps.com-4915.jpg|Brutus and Nero(The Rescuers)
Pete's Dragon Animation Color Model Cel - Elliott.jpg|Elliott (growls)(original film)
Foxandthehound648.jpg|The Bear (growls)(The Fox and the Hound)
File:Beelzebub.jpg|Beelzebub(Trick or Treat)
==Gallery==
052009 NF F WayneAllwine Foley Feat2.jpg|MacDonald with Wayne Allwine.
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vlcsnap-2012-05-18-19h09m11s79.png|MacDonald performing his famous chimney lamp growls.
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Jimmy macdonald interview 1984.JPG|MacDonald in The Making of Mickey's Christmas Carol.
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