- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- He is retired and lives in San Antonio, Texas.
- 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).
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