| GENUS PEDIGREE: |
Duckbill |
| KNOWN ALIASES: |
unknown |
| KNOWN RELATIVES: |
Matilda Duck (wife?); Donald Duck (nephew); Daisy Duck (niece); $crooge McDuck (brother-in-law); Huey, Dewey & Louie (grand nephews); April, May & June (grand nieces); Cornelius Coot (founder of Duckburg; great-grandfather); Fethry Duck (nephew); Gus Goose, Gladstone Gander, Rumpus McFowl, Fred Duck (cousins); Humperdink Duck (a.k.a. Grandpa Duck); Elvira Coot (a.k.a. Grandma Duck - Duck family matriarch). |
| KNOWN PETS: |
Herman the Bootle Beetle.
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| CITIZENSHIP: |
Birthplace: Vienna, Austria; current residence: Duckburg, USA.
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| KNOWN CONFIDANTS: |
Donald Duck; $crooge McDuck; Huey, Dewey & Louie; Daisy Duck; Gyro Gearloose.
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| KNOWN RIVALS: |
unknown |
| PARAPHERNALIA: |
unknown |
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| 1st PRINT APPEARANCE: |
"Ludwig von Drake" #1 (Nov. 1961) in "Duckburg, U.S.A."
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| 1st FILM APPEARANCE: |
"Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color: An Adventure in Color" (Sep. 24, 1961 - first episode of "Walt Disney Presents" colorful new format and name-change); recurring guest host on "Raw Toonage;" and Semi-regular on "DuckTales" and "Quack Pack" (1996).
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| VOICE ACTOR: |
Paul Frees (former); Corey Burton ("Raw Toonage," "Quack Pack").
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| SIGNATURE: |
N/A
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| BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS: |
Donald Duck's nutty professor, scientist and psychologist uncle from Austria. His primary role in the Duck universe is to psychoanalyze human nature, often using such sterling examples as Donald, his nephews, and Goofy as his test subjects. Like Gyro, Ludwig is also a scientist and inventor whose gizmos and experiments often go awry. In Ludwig's comic book premiere issue of his very own title he arrived at "Duckburg, USA" by train. Uncle $crooge, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Grandma Duck and the Nephews were all anxiously waiting at the station for him, but having never met their foreign relative, none of them knew what he looked like. Ludwig also has a travelling companion in the form of a Bootle Beetle named Herman. Ludwig von Drake has appeared in three different animated series as a guest star: "DuckTales," "Raw Toonage," and "Quack Pack." |
| HISTORICAL FACTS: |
unknown |
| LITTLE KNOWN SECRETS: |
unknown |
| WORKING THEORIES: |
none |
Professor Ludwig von Drake
