Trivia

Concealed the fact that he was the voice of Bambi in Bambi (1942) while he was in the U.S. Marines. He feared being nicknamed "Bambi".

While in the Marines he was the youngest drill instructor in the history of the Corps. He rose to the rank of major before his retirement.

Said that after voicing and viewing the film Bambi (1942) as a child actor, he could never bring himself to shoot an animal. As a career U.S. Marine he'd done a lot of shooting in his life but had never shot an animal.

He served three tours in Vietnam as a Marine.

He earned three Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star for his service in Vietnam as a US Marine.

He is retired and lives in San Antonio, Texas.

Was dropped on his stomach by Boris Karloff and onto the concrete floor while filming Son of Frankenstein (1939), so that he had to be wired to him.

He has similarities with Bambi in that they both lost their mothers when young and both were shot, in fact he was shot twice, wounded by shrapnel and knifed.

San Angelo, TX USA: Retired Maj, USMC, but Dunagan has kept up a hectic schedule by doing interviews on the ABC morning show "The View," in addition to the British Broadcasting Corp. in London, Disney Studios, NBC-TV in Chicago and CBS-TV in Houston, among others due to the recent Blu-Ray release of Bambi. (March 2011)

Interviewed in "Earth vs. the Sci-Fi Filmmakers" by Tom Weaver (McFarland, 2005).