Florence Gill

Florence Gill

Born: July 27, 1877
Died: February 19, 1965
in London, England, UK
Florence Gill was an English actress and voice actress.

For Disney, she provided the voices of Walt Disney's Clara Cluck and The Wise Little Hen. She also provided the clucking sound effects of the condors, chickens, hens, and roosters in a number of Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Chip and Dale, Pluto, and Silly Symphonies cartoons. She even appeared in live-action in the film, The Reluctant Dragon alongside Clarence Nash to cluck an operatic duet as Clara alongside Nash's Donald, most likely for Mickey's Grand Opera. Her interment was located at Chapel of the Pines Crematory in Los Angeles, California.

Movies for Florence Gill...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Title: Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
Character: Hens (voice) (archive sound)
Released: May 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs', the Big Bad Wolf is doing his best to cunningly snare the guileless little pigs, while in 'Three Little Wolves' he goes one step further and decides to disguise and train his own offspring to lure them into his fold. 'Funny Little Bunnies' explores the mystery of the Easter Bunny. 'Lambert the Sheepish Lion' is a lovable, shy lion who plucks up the courage to protect his adopted family of ewes and rams. 'Ferdinand the Bull' gets in a scrape at a Madrid bullring when he gets stung by a bee and the crowd mistake him for a fighting bull.
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Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Title: Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
Character: Florence Gill / Clara Cluck (voice) (archive sound)
Released: May 31, 2004
Type: Movie
Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In 'The Reluctant Dragon' (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a docile dragon the art of being a force to be reckoned with. In 'Mickey and the Beanstalk' (1947), Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck confront the fearsome Willie the Giant to try to retrieve the magical singing harp to Happy Valley.
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Mickey's Family Album
Title: Mickey's Family Album
Character: Clara Cluck (voice)
Released: June 11, 1998
Type: Movie
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Chicken in the Rough
Title: Chicken in the Rough
Character: Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Chip 'n' Dale wander into a farmyard to collect acorns. Dale mistakes an egg for a nut, but when he tries to demonstrate to a newly hatched chick how to get back into the egg, a rooster mistakes him for one of his chicks.
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The Greener Yard
Title: The Greener Yard
Character: Hens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1949
Type: Movie
An old beetle (though he looks more like Jiminy Cricket) living next door to Donald Duck explains to his young charge why Donald's garden isn't the paradise it appears to be, by recounting his battles with Donald when he first discovered the garden, and his narrow escape assisted by a couple of birds.
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The Eyes Have It
Title: The Eyes Have It
Character: Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 1945
Type: Movie
Donald receives a mail order hypnosis kit complete with hypnotic goggles and decides to test it on Pluto. Using the goggles, he convinces Pluto he is a mouse, a turtle, and a chicken. Each "transformation" Pluto undergoes Donald finds extremely funny so he keeps at it until he notices chicken Pluto getting into a fight with a rooster. Donald helps Pluto win the fight by making him think he's a lion but, unfortunately, the goggles break and Donald is chased about by Pluto until he regains his senses after a fall.
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Contrary Condor
Title: Contrary Condor
Character: Condors (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Donald is trying to collect a condor's egg when the condor returns. He hides inside an empty egg and regrets this when the large, warm mother returns. He regrets it even more when he "hatches" and mama encourages him to fly. And mama proves to be even more protective than Donald would like.
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Chicken Little
Title: Chicken Little
Character: Hens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
It's a peaceful day at the local poultry farm until Foxy Loxy happens along intent on a chicken dinner. He takes the advice of a book on psychology by striking "the least intelligent" first and convinces dim witted Chicken Little the sky is falling. Chicken Little spreads the word but when head man Cocky Locky proves the story to be false, Foxy Loxy spreads rumors that Cocky Locky isn't the smart chicken he appears to be, which leads to the ultimate undoing of the chickens at the hands of Foxy Loxy.
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I Married a Witch
Title: I Married a Witch
Character: Woman Playing Chess (uncredited)
Released: October 30, 1942
Type: Movie
Rocksford, New England, 1672. Puritan witch hunter Jonathan Wooley is cursed after burning a witch at the stake: his descendants will never find happiness in their marriages. At present, politician Wallace Wooley, who is running for state governor, is about to marry his sponsor's daughter.
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Eagle Squadron
Title: Eagle Squadron
Character: Cockney
Released: June 16, 1942
Type: Movie
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.
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Obliging Young Lady
Title: Obliging Young Lady
Character: Miss Hollyrod
Released: April 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.
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Symphony Hour
Title: Symphony Hour
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an elevator, so they sound like toys. The sponsor hates it, but the audience loves it anyway.
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Mickey's Birthday Party
Title: Mickey's Birthday Party
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The gang throws Mickey a surprise birthday party; his present is an electric organ, which Minnie plays while Mickey does a jazzy dance. Goofy bakes the cake, but keeps having trouble with it falling. The gang does a conga line to a Latin tune.
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Orphans' Benefit
Title: Orphans' Benefit
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Mickey and friends put on a revue for the orphans. Donald recites nursery rhymes, but the orphans torment him. Horace, Goofy, and Clarabelle do a dance number. Donald tries again. Clara clucks a song while Mickey plays piano (with support from an unseen orchestra). Donald returns, and the orphans finally send a parade of bricks and eggs on balloons over him and use slingshots to drop them on his head.
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The Nifty Nineties
Title: The Nifty Nineties
Character: Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 29, 1941
Type: Movie
Mickey courts Minnie in the Gay Nineties: they take in a vaudeville show and go for a drive in his horseless carriage, to the strains of "While Strolling Through the Park" and "In the Good Old Summertime". Goofy rides by on a penny-farthing bicycle, and the whole Duck family rides by on a bicycle built for five.
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The Reluctant Dragon
Title: The Reluctant Dragon
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) / Florence Gill
Released: June 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be ferocious. Along the way, he is given a tour of Walt Disney Studios, and learns about the animation process.
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There's a Hole in the Old Oaken Bucket
Title: There's a Hole in the Old Oaken Bucket
Released: June 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.
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Golden Eggs
Title: Golden Eggs
Character: The Hens / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Donald reads in his newspaper that eggs are really going up in value and the price is skyrocketing. Donald realizes that if he had some eggs, he would be quite the wealthy duck so he breaks into a nearby hen-house and collects as many eggs as possible putting them all in a huge basket. Unfortunately, a rooster standing guard makes his presence known and ejects Donald. The inventive duck is able to get back in disguised as a female chicken who the rooster falls for and dances with. Unfortunately, with the rubber glove comb constantly coming loose and a caterpillar falling down the back of his suit, he is ever at the risk of being discovered.
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Goofy's Glider
Title: Goofy's Glider
Character: Chickens
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Yet another sport is made 'easy' for us by Goofy's demonstration how- never, ever, to try anything for real, least of all with a glider-flying machine he launches in ways that would kill anything but a cartoon character, such as a giant catapult and even a canon. Meanwhile Goofy proves totally incapable to control any of its movements in the air, let alone the 'landing' which is too messy even for a bombshell.
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Farmyard Symphony
Title: Farmyard Symphony
Character: Hens / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1938
Type: Movie
The farm comes to life, to various classical tunes. The high point is a rooster serenading a chicken, with all the animals joining in. But then comes the sound that's even more welcome to the animals: the farmer and his wife with food (the only actual words spoken).
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The Fox Hunt
Title: The Fox Hunt
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Donald controls the hounds , and Goofy is riding on Horace Horsecollar, as the fox outwits both of them.
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Self Control
Title: Self Control
Character: Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Donald hears a radio philosopher advise to laugh and count ten when he gets angry. He tries it successfully, then settles into his hammock for a nap. Between a caterpillar and the hen chasing it, he's soon tangled up and counting ten again. He also shrugs off a bird using his lemonade as a birdbath, but when a woodpecker attacks his apple tree, burying Donald in apples, he snaps.
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Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Title: Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
Character: Miss Carrie Bowers (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1937
Type: Movie
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.
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Ever Since Eve
Title: Ever Since Eve
Character: Annie - the Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Madge Winton (Marion Davies), a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Matthews (Robert Montgomery), accidentally sees her without her disguise, she has to pretend to be her roommate Sadie.
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She Had to Eat
Title: She Had to Eat
Character: Singer (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1937
Type: Movie
An Arizona gas station owner faces comic adventures after traveling with an eccentric millionaire to New City, where he meets up with a small-time con woman and is repeatedly mistaken for a gangster.
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Mickey's Amateurs
Title: Mickey's Amateurs
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Mickey hosts an amateur hour radio show.
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Mother Pluto
Title: Mother Pluto
Character: The Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Pluto accidentally hatches a bunch of chickens and looks after them until the hen returns.
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Mickey's Grand Opera
Title: Mickey's Grand Opera
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Mickey is preparing to conduct an opera when he chases Pluto away. Pluto crashes into a magician's props backstage and spars with the hat, its rabbits, and its doves. The opera begins: Clarabelle plays flute, Clara and Donald are the leads in Romeo and Juliet. Pluto follows the magic hat onstage, to Mickey's growing annoyance. The hat falls into a tuba, and soon the animals are filling the stage.
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Cock o' the Walk
Title: Cock o' the Walk
Character: Hens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1935
Type: Movie
The title character comes to town, complete with portable boxing ring. He grabs a local chicken and dances with her, inspiring several other barnyard animals to dance. But her rooster takes offense, and enters the ring to do battle.
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Way Down East
Title: Way Down East
Character: Quilting Party Woman
Released: October 25, 1935
Type: Movie
A family living on a farm in Maine takes in a young woman to stay with them, not knowing that the woman is not quite what she seems and has a secret in her past that she hasn't told them about.
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Here Comes the Band
Title: Here Comes the Band
Character: Mrs. Ella Sacks (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1935
Type: Movie
In this musical, a songwriter goes to court to claim the rights to his song that was stolen by an unscrupulous music publisher. He brings his girlfriend with him. Also going to court are the Jubilee singers, hillbillies, and some cowboys and Indians who demonstrate that the composer wrote his song by rearranging four folk tunes. He wins his song back and $50,000 in damages. Songs include: "Heading Home," "Roll Along Prairie Moon," "Tender Is the Night," "You're My Thrill," "I'm Bound for Heaven," and "The Army Band."
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Every Night at Eight
Title: Every Night at Eight
Character: Chicken Lady Singer (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1935
Type: Movie
Three young girls working in an agency have build a singing trio. They want to "lease" the Dictaphone of their boss to make a record of their singing, but they are caught and fired. When they are not able to pay their rent any longer, they decide to try it on an amateur contest at a radio station.
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Orphan's Benefit
Title: Orphan's Benefit
Character: Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
Donald and Mickey put on a charity show, for some orphans.
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The Wise Little Hen
Title: The Wise Little Hen
Character: Wise Little Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1934
Type: Movie
Join Donald Duck in his debut in the classic animated short The Wise Little Hen. The Little Hen is planting corn and would like to have help from Peter Pig and Donald Duck, but they refuse stating they each have a "tummy ache." When it comes time to harvest the corn, Peter Pig and Donald still refuse to help the Hen, so she and her chicks do the harvest by themselves. Finally, the hen cooks the corn and offers some to Donald and Peter Pig, but when they look more carefully they discover a surprise.
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Funny Little Bunnies
Title: Funny Little Bunnies
Character: Hens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.
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Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Title: Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
Character: Singer on Radio Program
Released: September 1, 1933
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.
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The Ugly Duckling
Title: The Ugly Duckling
Character: Mother Hen (voice)
Released: December 16, 1931
Type: Movie
A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks.
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Birds of a Feather
Title: Birds of a Feather
Character: Mother Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1931
Type: Movie
Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.