Carl Bark created the cartoon character Scrooge McDuck in 1947 for The Walt Disney Company. Scrooge is a Scottish-born American anthropomorphic Pekin Duck who appears in Disney comics. He shares a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet with his nephew Donald Duck. He typically wears a top hat, pince-nez glasses, a red or blue frock coat, and a variety of colored spats. In the animation, he is shown speaking with a Scottish accent.
Scrooge McDuck was originally supposed to only appear in one Donald Duck comic in 1947; but he ended up starring in the popular cartoon Duck Tales.
Scrooge is Donald Duck’s uncle on his mother’s side.
Scrooge earned his first piece of gold, while he was prospecting Klondike.
Scrooge McDuck’s first job was shoe shining, when he was 10 years old. He earned a dime while doing so and it became his lucky number one dime.
Scrooge was voiced by Alan Young, who is also the actor who played Wilbur Post, the owner of the famous talking horse, Mr. Ed.
Scrooge McDuck is so rich that he has a money pit that reaches three cubic acres.
Scrooge’s show Duck Tales, inspired the creation of Indiana Jones; and without it, the show may have not come about.
According to the comics, Scrooge McDuck was friends with Theodore Roosevelt.
In the comics, Scrooge was a passenger on the Titanic.
Scrooge McDuck’s favoirite ice cream flavor is sea salt.
Before being featured in Duck tales, Scrooge McDuck starred in Mickey’s Christmas Carol, as Ebeneezer Scrooge
Did you Know?
- Scrooge McDuck appeared in “Christmas on Bear Mountain” as a bespectacled, bearded, and reasonably wealthy old duck, visibly leaning on his cane, and who lived alone in a huge mansion.
- Foxy Relations was the first story in which Scrooge McDuck is referred to as “The Richest Duck in the World”.
- Scrooge McDuck used an army of “cutthroats” to convince the tribe to give up their lands to establish a rubber plantation. This was what he privately admitted to his nephews.
- Scrooge McDuck offered a prize to competing cousins Donald Duck and Gladstone Gander for capturing the unicorn for Scrooge McDuck’s animal collection.
- Scrooge McDuck first hints that he was not born into wealth when he recalls purchasing the Hourglass in Morocco while working as a cabin boy on a ship.
- Scrooge McDuck learned this through years of living in or traveling to various parts of the world where those languages are spoken.
- During his lifetime, Scrooge McDuck met several historical figures, including US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Apache leader Geronimo, Russian Czar Nicholas II, and philologist Elias Lonnrot.
- Scrooge McDuck taught Donald some lessons in productivity as a source of wealth, as well as the laws of supply and demand, Financial Fable, which was first published in March 1951.
- Romano Scarpa, an Italian writer, and artist added several characters to Scrooge McDuck’s universe, including Brigitta McBridge, Scrooge’s self-styled fiancée, and Gideon McDuck a newspaper editor who is Scrooge’s brother.
- Scrooge McDuck’s fortune is the price of his hard work, and his money bin is “full of souvenirs” because each coin reminds him of a specific event.
- Don Rosa’s comic book series “The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck” depicts Scrooge’s fictional life.
- The majority of Scrooge McDuck’s wealth is kept in a massive Money Bin overlooking Duckburg.
- Scrooge McDuck is the wealthiest member of The Billionaires Club of Duckburg, a society that includes the world’s most successful businessmen and allows them to maintain connections with one another.
- Whatever the amount, Scrooge McDuck never considers it enough; he believes he must continue to earn money in any way possible.
- Scrooge McDuck never finished his formal education because he dropped out of school at a young age.
- Scrooge McDuck is an accomplished linguist and entrepreneur who learned to speak several different languages while selling refrigerators to Eskimos and wind to windmill manufacturers in the Netherlands.
- Scrooge McDuck’s upbringing is fleshed out in the series by depicting him as an individual who worked hard his entire life to earn his enormous fortune and to fiercely defend it against those who were truly dishonest, but he also defends his family and friends from any dangers, including villains.
- Roosevelt and Scrooge McDuck would meet at least three times: first in the Dakotas in 1883, then in Duckburg in 1902, and finally in Panama in 1906.
- Scrooge McDuck’s voice was first heard on the 1960 record album Donald Duck and His Friends, performed by Dal McKennon.
- Scrooge McDuck has appeared in some Raw Toonage episodes, two Mickey Mouse Works shorts, and some episodes of Disney’s House of Mouse, as well as the direct-to-video films Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas and Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas.
- Scrooge McDuck appeared in the 2015 Mickey Mouse short “Goofy’s First Love,” in which Mickey and Donald try to help Goofy find love.
- Scrooge McDuck appeared at the end attending Goofy’s wedding with a sandwich.
- Scrooge McDuck develops a pessimistic attitude toward family because of his experience until Donald reappears in his life with Huey, Dewey, and Louie, rekindling his spirit of adventure and appreciation for family, and he invites them to live with him at McDuck Manor as they travel the world on adventures.