Biography
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 M...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.5
2004
as Hens (voice) (archive sound)
Six more animated stories from the Disney studios. 'Three Blind Mousketeers' follows the misadventures of the outrageous trio. In 'Three Little Pigs',...

Walt Disney's Fables - Vol.6
2004
as Florence Gill / Clara Cluck (voice) (archive sound)
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 doci...

Mickey's Family Album
1998
as Clara Cluck (voice)

Chicken in the Rough
1951
as Hen (voice) (uncredited)
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 ...

The Greener Yard
1949
as Hens (voice) (uncredited)
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 pa...

The Eyes Have It
1945
as Hen (voice) (uncredited)
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 ...

Contrary Condor
1944
as Condors (voice) (uncredited)
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....

Chicken Little
1943
as Hens (voice) (uncredited)
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...

I Married a Witch
1942
as Woman Playing Chess (uncredited)
A 17th-century witch returns to wreak havoc in the life of a descendant of the Puritan witch hunter who burned her.

Eagle Squadron
1942
as Cockney
An American joins the British Royal Air Force just before Pearl Harbor is attacked, and falls in love with a beautiful English girl.

Obliging Young Lady
1942
as Miss Hollyrod
A woman attempts to shelter a young girl from the publicity surrounding her socialite parents' divorce.

Symphony Hour
1942
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey guest-directs a radio orchestra. The sponsor loves the rehearsal, but come the actual performance, Goofy drops all the instruments under an ele...

Mickey's Birthday Party
1942
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
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 th...

Orphans' Benefit
1941
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
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 danc...

The Nifty Nineties
1941
as Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
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 Stroll...

The Reluctant Dragon
1941
as Clara Cluck (voice) / Florence Gill
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 f...
There's a Hole in the Old Oaken Bucket
1941
A Soundie with Florence Gill, Redd Harper and The Sells.

Golden Eggs
1941
as The Hens / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
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...

Goofy's Glider
1940
as Chickens
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...

Farmyard Symphony
1938
as Hens / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
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 Fox Hunt
1938
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Donald controls the hounds , and Goofy is riding on Horace Horsecollar, as the fox outwits both of them.

Self Control
1938
as Hen (voice) (uncredited)
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. ...

Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
1937
as Miss Carrie Bowers (uncredited)
A country bumpkin becomes a singing sensation on the radio.

Ever Since Eve
1937
as Annie - the Cleaning Lady (uncredited)
Madge Winton, a beautiful secretary, makes herself look homely in order to avoid advances by lecherous bosses. When her new employer, writer Freddy Ma...

She Had to Eat
1937
as Singer (uncredited)
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...

Mickey's Amateurs
1937
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Mickey hosts an amateur hour radio show.

Larceny on the Air
1937
as Spinster
A doctor working with the Bureau of Pure Foods and Drugs, uses radio broadcasts to expose fraudulent patent medicines.

Mother Pluto
1936
as The Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Pluto accidentally hatches a bunch of chickens and looks after them until the hen returns.

Mickey's Grand Opera
1936
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
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...

Cock o' the Walk
1935
as Hens (voice) (uncredited)
The title character comes to town, complete with portable boxing ring. He grabs a local chicken and dances with her, inspiring several other barnyard ...

Way Down East
1935
as Quilting Party Woman
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 i...

Here Comes the Band
1935
as Mrs. Ella Sacks (uncredited)
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 girlfrie...

Every Night at Eight
1935
as Chicken Lady Singer (uncredited)
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,...

Orphan's Benefit
1934
as Clara Cluck (voice) (uncredited)
Donald and Mickey put on a charity show, for some orphans.

The Wise Little Hen
1934
as Wise Little Hen (voice) (uncredited)
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 Pete...

Funny Little Bunnies
1934
as Hens (voice) (uncredited)
We see bunny rabbits preparing for Easter, by making chocolate eggs and rabbits, decorating eggs, and weaving and filling baskets.

Dora's Dunking Doughnuts
1933
as Singer on Radio Program
A schoolteacher helps his friend Dora by getting his students to help him to make a radio commercial.

The Ugly Duckling
1931
as Mother Hen (voice)
A black duckling is rejected by its mother, a hen, but manages to prove his worth when a tornado threatens the hen's chicks.

Birds of a Feather
1931
as Mother Hen (voice) (uncredited)
Swans, peacocks, ducks, and more birds dance.