The Duckster is a prestigious in-house award given by The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company is the largest media conglomerate in the world in terms of revenue. Founded on October 16, 1923, by Walt and Roy Disney as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio, Walt Disney Productions established itself as a leader in the American animation industry before diversifying into...

 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

Walt Disney

Walter Elias "Walt" Disney was an American film producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur, entertainer, international icon, and philanthropist, well-known for his influence in the field of entertainment during the 20th century. Along with his brother Roy O...

 himself.

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".

Disney storyman and director Jack Hannah

Jack Hannah

Jack Hannah was an animator, writer and director of animated shorts.Hannah was born January 15, 1913, in Nogales, Arizona. He moved to Los Angeles in 1931 to study at the Art Guild Academy. One of his first jobs was designing movie posters for Hollywood theaters...

 at some point obtained one of the unawarded extra statutes from the studio; it was auctioned in 2005 for $4,813. That same year Martha Torge's Duckster was auctioned for $5,701.

In 2009 a Duckster was awarded at the D23

D23

D23 may refer to :* Almirante Valdés , a 1959 Spanish Fletcher-class destroyer* ARA Almirante Domecq Garcia , a 1971 Argentine Navy Fletcher class destroyer* Dewoitine D.23, a French Dewoitine aircraft...

 Expo to the winner of a contest to create the official portrait of Donald Duck for his 75th birthday.

Origin of the word

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

Donald Duck

Donald Fauntleroy Duck is a cartoon character created in 1934 at Walt Disney Productions and licensed by The Walt Disney Company. Donald is an anthropomorphic white duck with a yellow-orange bill, legs, and feet. He typically wears a sailor suit with a cap and a black or red bow tie. Donald is most...

).

List of recipients

• Martha Torge
• Carl Barks
  Carl Barks
  Carl Barks was an American Disney Studio illustrator and comic book creator, who invented Duckburg and many of its inhabitants, such as Scrooge McDuck , Gladstone Gander , the Beagle Boys , The Junior Woodchucks , Gyro Gearloose , Cornelius Coot , Flintheart Glomgold , John D...
  
  
• Clarence Nash
  Clarence Nash
  Clarence Charles "Ducky" Nash was an American voice actor, best known for providing the voice of Donald Duck for the Walt Disney Studios...
  
  
• Bob Karp
  Bob Karp
  Robert Louis Karp was an American comics writer. He began working for the Walt Disney Company in the 1930s, and from 1938 to 1974, he wrote the scripts for the daily Donald Duck newspaper strips. These were illustrated by Al Taliaferro and by Frank Grundeen after Taliaferro's death in 1969.Bob...
  
  
• Al Taliaferro
  Al Taliaferro
  Charles Alfred Taliaferro , known simply as Al Taliaferro, was a Disney comics artist who used to produce Disney comic strips for King Features Syndicate...
  
  
• Susan Henning
• Marvin Goldfarb
• Max Westebbe

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)