* Disney's Scrooge McDuck is thought to have been inspired by Carnegie.

One of his ancestors is John Elwes, who is believed to be the inspiration for Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens ' A Christmas Carol ( 1843 ) ( Elwes played five roles in the 2009 film adaptation of the novel ).

Keno Don Hugo Rosa, known simply as Don Rosa, ( born June 29, 1951 ) is an American comic book writer and illustrator known for his stories about Scrooge McDuck, Donald Duck and other Disney characters.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck is a comic book story by Don Rosa about Scrooge McDuck.

According to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, the castle is located in Dismal Downs, somewhere in Rannoch Moor ( a non-fictional location in Scotland ).

It is most probably based upon Andrew Carnegie's Skibo Castle, befitting the character of Scrooge McDuck as a loose caricature of Carnegie.

This is unlikely, as Scrooge McDuck made his first appearance in 1947, in the story Christmas on Bear Mountain.

Sir Donald McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.

Angus " Pothole " McDuck is Scrooge McDuck's uncle.

After the show's money is stolen by the Dalton Brothers, Angus rides out with Bill, Scrooge, P. T.

Fergus McDuck ( 1830-1902 ) is a prominent character in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

The rest of Fergus ' biography is shown in The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck.

However, due to Fergus ' inability to pay taxes, it is presumed that this map is not canonical to The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck, unless such treasure was obtained later in his life.

In the middle of their way to the treasure, Scrooge, Matilda and Scrooge's nephews find a letter from Fergus, who believed Scrooge would eventually find it, revealing the reason he hid the secret from Scrooge is that Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of inheriting one.

Jake McDuck is Scrooge McDuck's uncle.

His date of death is unknown, but it appears that both Scrooge and Donald believed him to be alive in 1952.

" by Carl Barks, in a scene where Scrooge McDuck is hypnotized into seeing events in the lives of his previous incarnations.

Locksley McDuck is mentioned in " The History of The Clan McDuck " by Don Rosa, a chapter created for The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck though it never got a place in the story at the end.

The 19th century English characters Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, etc., are thus not seen directly, but instead are portrayed by fictional American actors playing their parts.

Dickens describes him thus: " The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made his eyes red, his thin lips blue, and he spoke out shrewdly in his grating voice ..." His last name has come into the English language as a byword for miserliness and misanthropy, traits displayed by Scrooge in the exaggerated manner for which Dickens is well-known.

When Scrooge and the nephews find out that the English name of this bookdealer-turned sailor happens to be Christopher Columbus (" The plot thickens!

Whereas humbug in broader English ( see Charles Dickens's Scrooge character ) means nonsensical, or unimportant information, humbug in Aboriginal English means to pester with inane or repetitive requests.

In theatre, he has played Deputy and Snake Preacher in Whistle Down the Wind, Riff Raff in The Rocky Horror Show in the English Theatre Frankfurt, Bob Cratchit in the 2004 touring version of Scrooge and Gussie Fink-Nottle in the 2007 UK tour of By Jeeves.

Although the term refers to the Duck universe ( Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, etc.

Since then Scrooge remains the central figure of their Universe, coining the term Scrooge McDuck Universe.

According to critic Geoffrey Blum, the process that saw its beginnings in 1942's Pirate Gold first bore its full fruit in 1950's ' Vacation Time ,' which he describes as ' a visual primer for reading comics and understanding ... the form ...." From the early 1950s Barks undertook the quarterly adventures of Uncle Scrooge and the duck clan in Scrooge's own title.

He wrote one Uncle Scrooge story, three Donald Duck stories and from 1970-1974 was the main writer for the Junior Woodchucks comic book ( issues 6 through 25 ).

In 1995 he won the Eisner Award for " Best Serialized Story " for his 12-chapter work " The Life and Times of Scrooge McDuck ".

Indeed, Scrooge had supported the castle financially for many years prior, enabling the McDuck family to reoccupy it in 1885.

In 1955, Porker's nephew, Horseshoe Hogg, and Scrooge McDuck would bring their uncles ' steamboats back to the surface to finish the race for Cornpone Gables.

While Scrooge was away Fergus and his family moved back to Castle McDuck, abandoned for centuries, in Dismal Downs.

The family continued to work to pay for the taxes and Scrooge sent them most all of the money he earned while traveling.

He was mentioned in the story " A Christmas for Shacktown " ( 1952 ) by Carl Barks, in which Donald Duck dresses up as Jake in an attempt to trick Scrooge into giving money to charity.

He is, however, hopeless at finding and identifying gold and often frustrates Scrooge by criticizing him for not being " McDuck-like " enough.

In that story, Scrooge returns to the McDuck Castle for another treasure and learns from Matilda that his family already knew about the treasure but their father Fergus decided not to tell Scrooge about it.

Both Scrooge and Matilda thought that was because of Fergus ' disapproval of Scrooge's greedy ways but after finding a letter on the way for the treasure ( hence the other title " A Letter from Home ") they learn Fergus's real motive was the fact he thought Scrooge would feel better building his own fortune instead of simply inheriting one.

Moocher McDuck is the beggar cousin of Scrooge who appeared for the first time in the story " Too Many McDucks " by Tony Strobl.

While being known for his dramatic roles, Finney appeared and sang in two musical films: Scrooge and the Hollywood film version of Annie, which was directed by John Huston, who would direct him once again in Under The Volcano two years later.

A third example showing a different version of metonymy is the fictional character Scrooge McDuck's " money bin " or indeed Scrooge himself, often used in Disney works and parody works as metonymous with wealth-most currency in the modern era is now stored electronically, but the money bin is still drawn in comics and persists as a pop culture metonym for any financial holding of great value.

His outrageous productivity is presented as a factor in the quality of his inventions ; because he always comes up with new ideas, the fact that his inventions often lack an important feature, will often cause trouble for Scrooge or Donald who have bought the invention.