Duckster

The Duckster is a prestigious in-house award given by The Walt Disney Company for a variety of reasons, including service to the company as well as to the community as a whole. The award was first presented by Disney founder Walt Disney himself.^[1]

Susan Henning (Haley Mills' body double for The Parent Trap) was presented with a Duckster by Walt Disney inscribed for "Best Unseen Performance by an Actress".^[2]

Disney storyman and director Jack Hannah at some point obtained one of the unawarded extra statutes from the studio; it was auctioned in 2005 for $4,813.^[3] That same year Martha Torge's Duckster was auctioned for $5,701.^[4]

In 2009 a Duckster was awarded at the D23 Expo to the winner of a contest to create the official portrait of Donald Duck for his 75th birthday.^[5]

Origin of the word

"Duckster" is a combination of the words "Oscar" and "Duck" (as in Donald Duck).

List of recipients

• Martha Torge
• Carl Barks
• Clarence Nash
• Bob Karp
• Al Taliaferro
• Susan Henning
• Marvin Goldfarb
• Max Westebbe

See also

Mousecar

References

1. ^ Walt Disney "DUCKSTER" Award known as the Academy Award of Disney
2. ^ Susan Henning biography
3. ^ Lot #612: 1950's Disney "Duckster" Award from Disney Animator Jack Hannah
4. ^ Lot #43: The Earliest Known Disney 1952 "Duckster Award"
5. ^ Donald Portrait Contest

External links

• Photo from the October 1963 party in the Penthouse Club at the Disney Studio where Mousecars and Ducksters were presented to Disney comic strip writers and artists (left to right: Bob Karp, Walt Disney, Floyd Gottfredson, Al Taliaferro, Manuel Gonzales and Roy O. Disney)