# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jimmy-macdonald
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:53:14.012Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jimmy-macdonald"
name: "Jimmy MacDonald"
slug: "jimmy-macdonald"
description: "John James MacDonald was a British-born Scottish-American foley artist and voice actor. He was the original head of the Disney sound-effects department and was also the second official voice of Mickey Mouse from 1947 to 1976 after Walt Disney stopped playing the character and before Wayne Allwine became the third voice of Mickey in 1977."
tagline: "British sound artist (1906–1991)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/33/Jimmy_MacDonald.jpg?utm_source=en.wikipedia.org&utm_campaign=api&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1906-05-19"
deathDate: "1991-02-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           50.8
  momentum:             0.4313987102512786
  historical:           13.968876
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531763/"
    handle:    "nm0531763"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_MacDonald"
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    title: "ジム・マクドナルド"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump