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name: "Jim Carmichael"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jim-carmichael"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "1 August 1909"
died: "26 May 1988"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T05:57:41.521191+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jim Carmichael

Actor. Born 1 August 1909 in California, USA. Died 26 May 1988.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 1 August 1909, California, USA
- **Died:** 26 May 1988
- **Also known as:** James Carmichael
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3178755, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0138435/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/222315

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Dumbo*](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md) (87)

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## Biography

Jim Carmichael (also credited as James Carmichael) was an American animator, layout artist and background designer. Born in Los Angeles, California, he worked at Walt Disney Studios in the late 1930s and early 1940s on Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse shorts, including layout on *Donald's Better Self* (1938) and background design on *Sea Scouts* (1939) and *Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip* (1940).

He provided the uncredited voice of Dopey Crow in the Disney feature *Dumbo* (1941). After leaving Disney, Carmichael contributed to animation at other studios, including Hanna-Barbera, with credits on series such as *Cattanooga Cats* (1969), *The Amazing Chan and the Chan Clan* (1972) and *The Flintstone Comedy Hour* (1972). He died in Los Angeles in 1988.

*Sources: imdb.com, wikitree.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Dumbo* (1941), Fi1m 87, as Dopey Crow (voice) (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/dumbo.md)

## Also known for

- *Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip* (1940), Background Designer
- *Sea Scouts* (1939), Background Designer
- *Donald's Better Self* (1938), Layout

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