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{{Infobox character
|title1=Dinky Duck
|image1=Dinky Duck.png
|first_appearance=''[[The Orphan Duck]]'' (October 6, 1939)
|last_appearance=''[[Curbside]]'' (January 1, 1999)
|voice=[[Allen Swift]] (1939-1953, 1957)<br>[[Dee Bradley Baker]] (1999)
|species=Duck
|gender=Male
}}
'''Dinky Duck''' is a [[Terrytoons]] cartoon character who first appeared in the 1939 animated short ''The Orphan Duck''.
Unlike fellow Terrytoons characters [[Mighty Mouse]], silly [[Gandy Goose]] and the magpie duo [[Heckle and Jeckle]], Dinky never became popular, appearing in a total of only 15 cartoons between 1939 and 1957.

For most of his appearances, Dinky was a young black duck who lived on a farm with other ducks, chickens and other typical farm animals. Sometimes he was an orphan who simply wanted a place to call home; on other occasions, he would perform some heroic deed and help restore calm to the barnyard when adult animals quarreled.

The early Dinky Duck cartoons presents Dinky making a sharp quacking noise, while the later ones gave a young voice to Dinky, performed by actor [[Allen Swift]]. Several of the cartoons had a singing chorus that gave an introduction to the upcoming story.

Dinky's final appearance was in ''It's a Living'', a CinemaScope cartoon, in which he sheds his cute farmyard duck persona and instead takes on the role of a disgruntled animation actor who quits his cartoon character job to try his hand in television commercial acting.

Dinky was going to have a cameo in ''Who Framed Roger Rabbit'', but rights to the character could not be obtained in time.

Dinky was a supporting character in the 1999 pilot ''[[Curbside]]''. He was voiced by [[Dee Bradley Baker]] in that version.<ref>{{https://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/101602-Curbside Curbside (Nickelodeon)}}</ref>

==Filmography==
===List of shorts===
*''[[The Orphan Duck]]'' (October 6, 1939)
*''[[Much Ado About Nothing]]'' (March 22, 1940)
*''[[The Lucky Duck]]'' (September 6, 1940)
*''[[Welcome Little Stranger]]''  (October 3, 1941)
*''[[Life with Fido]]'' (August 21, 1942)
*''[[Dinky Finds a Home]]'' (June 7, 1946)
*''[[The Beauty Shop]]'' (April 28, 1950)
*''[[Flat Foot Fledgling]]'' (January 25, 1952)
*''[[Foolish Duckling]]'' (May 16, 1952)
*''[[Sink or Swim]]'' (August 29, 1952)
*''[[Featherweight Champ]]'' (February 6, 1953)
*''[[Wise Quacks]]'' (February 27, 1953)
*''[[The Orphan Egg]]'' (April 24, 1953)
*''[[The Timid Scarecrow]]'' (August 28, 1953)
*''[[It's a Living]]'' (November 15, 1957)

==Gallery==
<gallery>
129-001title.jpg|Dinky Duck opening card from 1950s TV Reissue print
</gallery>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://toonopedia.com/dinky.htm Dinky Duck] at [[Don Markstein's Toonopedia]]. [https://www.webcitation.org/6bQMQyXoy?url=http://toonopedia.com/dinky.htm Archived] from the original on September 9, 2015.
*[http://www.bcdb.com/cartoons/20th_Century_Fox/TerryToons/Dinky_Duck/ Dinky Duck Cartoon Philmography] at The Big Cartoon Database
*[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0148562/ ''The Orphan Duck''], 1939 cartoon (first animation where this character featured)
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[[Category:Ducks]]
[[Category:Males]]
[[Category:1939 Introductions]]