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David "Dave" Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City.
Sometime around 1913-1914, Dave began working as a film cutter for the American branch of Pathé, the French company that was the world's largest film production and distribution company, and the largest manufacturer of film equi...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
David "Dave" Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City.
Sometime around 1913-1914, Dave began working as a film cutter for the American branch of Pathé, the French company that was the world's largest film production and distribution company, and the largest manufacturer of film equipment, in the first decades of the 20th Century.
Dave Fleischer was notable during the brothers' early days as the rotoscope model for their first character, Koko the Clown. He went on to become director and later producer of the studio's output. Although he is credited as "director" of every film released by the Fleischer studio from 1921 to 1942, the lead animators actually performed directorial duties, and Fleischer mainly served as producer. Among the cartoon series Fleischer supervised during this period were Talkartoons, Betty Boop Cartoons, Popeye the Sailor, Color Classics and several others; Popeye would go on to be the top rival of Mickey Mouse. He also supervised two animated features released through Paramount Pictures, Gulliver's Travels (1939) and Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941). The debt Fleischer Studios owed to Paramount for the budgets of those features, worsened by the lack of success that came from the studio's non-Popeye cartoons, was called in by Paramount; this forced the brothers to give the studio to Paramount on May 24, 1941. However, both were still able to remain in charge of Fleischer Studios for a time.
Fleischer was asked by Paramount to put the popular comic book hero Superman into a cartoon series. The big-budget Superman series became the most successful cartoon of the late period of Fleischer Studios. However, relations between Dave and Max were deteriorating. The feud starting simmering after the married Dave began an adulterous affair with his Miami secretary in 1938, and was followed by more personal and professional disputes.
In April 1942 Fleischer, no longer able to cooperate with his brother, left the company to become President of Screen Gems at Columbia Pictures, although he remained co-manager of Fleischer Studios until Paramount reorganized the studio in May 1942 after Max and Dave's contracts expired. Now owned wholly by Paramount, the studio was re-organized as Famous Studios, although the name wasn't officially adopted until May 1943.
In the late-1940s, Fleischer moved over to Universal, where he became a special effects expert and general problem-solver, working on films such as Francis (1950), The Birds (1963), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967).
Fleischer died of a stroke on June 25, 1979 in Woodland Hills, California, having spent over a decade in retirement.
Movies (Cast)
The Ouija Board
Series (Cast)
Directed
Ace of Spades
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
The Ugly Dino
Granite Hotel
Gulliver's Travels
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
The Mechanical Monsters
Taking the Blame
Minnie the Moocher
Musical Memories
Superman
The Magnetic Telescope
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
The Chinaman
Snow-White
Out of the Inkwell
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Popeye the Sailor
I Yam What I Yam
Billion Dollar Limited
The Bulleteers
The Arctic Giant
Volcano
Electric Earthquake
Terror on the Midway
Poor Cinderella
Birthday
Stoopnocracy
Down Among the Sugar Cane
The Kids in the Shoe
The Old Man of the Mountain
Romantic Melodies
I Eats My Spinach
Goonland
Mother Goose Land
Betty Boop's Museum
Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
The Cobweb Hotel
Females Is Fickle
KoKo's Earth Control
Boop-Oop-A-Doop
A Hunting We Will Go
I Ain't Got Nobody
Admission Free
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Chess-Nuts
Betty Boop, M.D.
Crazy-Town
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
S.O.S.
Any Rags
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
The Dancing Fool
Betty Boop for President
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
Cartoon Factory
Stopping the Show
You Try Somebody Else
Time on My Hands
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Minding the Baby
The Betty Boop Limited
Rudy Vallee Melodies
The Robot
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Ain't She Sweet
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
Popular Melodies
Betty Boop's May Party
I Heard
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Seasin's Greetinks!
Dinah
Is My Palm Read
Morning, Noon and Night
Blow Me Down!
Wild Elephinks
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
Boilesk
Betty Boop's Big Boss
China Town, My China Town
The Male Man
Bimbo's Express
Noah's Lark
In My Merry Oldsmobile
The Herring Murder Case
Silly Scandals
Jack and the Beanstalk
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Betty Co-ed
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl
Little Annie Rooney
Kitty from Kansas City
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
After the Ball
Mask-A-Raid
Tree Saps
Twenty Legs Under the Sea
Invisible Ink
The Bum Bandit
That Old Gang of Mine
Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
I've Got Rings on My Fingers
Teacher's Pest
Swing You Sinners!
Trip to Mars
Mysterious Mose
Betty Boop's Trial
Strong to the Finich
Can You Take It
The Raven
This Little Piggie Went to Market
There's Something About a Soldier
In the Good Old Summertime
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Red Hot Mamma
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Betty Boop's Little Pal
La Paloma
The Stein Song
Grand Uproar
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
When My Ship Comes In
Keep in Style
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
Betty Boop's Life Guard
She Wronged Him Right
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Talking Through My Heart
Lazy Bones
I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
Never Should Have Told You
I Wished on the Moon
Mariutch
Wise Flies
Fire Bugs
My Gal Sal
Bimbo's Initiation
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Strike Up the Band
Sky Scraping
Hot Dog
Bedelia
Up to Mars
Dizzy Dishes
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
The Hot Air Salesman
Barnacle Bill
You're Not Built That Way
Rhythm on the Reservation
Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
Not Now
The Candid Candidate
We Did It
Musical Mountaineers
Betty Boop and the Little King
Training Pigeons
My Friend the Monkey
A Song a Day
Pudgy Picks a Fight
A Date to Skate
Educated Fish
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching)
The Clown's Little Brother
Hide and Seek
Modeling
Child Psykolojiky
The Automobile Ride
Bubbles
Jumping Beans
Now You're Talking
A Car-Tune Portrait
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Koko Needles the Boss
Bed Time
Trapped
The Paneless Window Washer
Hold the Wire
Brotherly Love
Somewhere in Dreamland
Hawaiian Birds
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Bridge Ahoy!
Play Safe
Let's Get Movin'
The Little Stranger
Little Swee'pea
Greedy Humpty Dumpty
What -- No Spinach?
A Clean Shaven Man
Never Kick a Woman
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
The Spinach Roadster
Grampy's Indoor Outing
More Pep
No Other One
I Don't Want to Make History
I Can't Escape from You
Inklings, Issue 12
Swat the Fly
Happy You and Merry Me
Making Stars
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
A Little Soap and Water
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
Making Friends
I'm in the Army Now
Be Human
A Language All My Own
Stop That Noise
Betty Boop and Grampy
Adventures of Popeye
Time for Love
Baby Be Good
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Judge for a Day
For Better or Worser
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
The Spinach Overture
The Song of the Birds
Dizzy Divers
King of the Mardi Gras
Dancing on the Moon
Choose Your 'Weppins'
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Little Nobody
An Elephant Never Forgets
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
On with the New
Bunny Mooning
Ants in the Plants
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
All's Fair at the Fair
I Yam Love Sick
Small Fry
Let's You and Him Fight
Shoein' Hosses
Axe Me Another
Sock-a-Bye, Baby
Ha! Ha! Ha!
She Reminds Me of You
The Two-Alarm Fire
Let's Sing with Popeye
Love Thy Neighbor
The Dance Contest
A Dream Walking
Little Dutch Mill
We Aim to Please
Shiver Me Timbers!
Betty in Blunderland
My Wife's Gone to the Country
So Does an Automobile
Be Up to Date
Thrills and Chills
Pudgy the Watchman
The Scared Crows
Sally Swing
Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem
Ko-Ko's Haunted House
Honest Love and True
Hunky and Spunky
Big Bad Sindbad
Popeye Makes a Movie
The Tears of an Onion
School Days
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Pudgy and the Lost Kitten
Mutiny Ain't Nice
The Jeep
The Swing School
Let's Celebrake
Riding the Rails
Learn Polikeness
Bulldozing the Bull
Wotta Nitemare
Hold It!
The House Builder-Upper
The Playful Polar Bears
Ghosks Is the Bunk
Cops Is Always Right
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Leave Well Enough Alone
It's the Natural Thing to Do
Yip-Yip-Yippy
Hello How Am I
Customers Wanted
Never Sock a Baby
Always Kickin'
The Barnyard Brat
The Constable
Popeye Meets William Tell
Puttin on the Act
Doing Impossikible Stunts
Little Lambkins
King for a Day
Pest Pilot
Poopdeck Pappy
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
Fightin Pals
Wimmin is a Myskery
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Snubbed by a Snob
Quiet! Pleeze
The Mighty Navy
Stealin Aint Honest
Nix on Hypnotricks
Shakespearian Spinach
Onion Pacific
Nurse-Mates
Me Feelins is Hurt
My Pop, My Pop
Olive's Boithday Presink
Problem Pappy
I'll Never Crow Again
Flies Ain't Human
Two for the Zoo
Gabby Goes Fishing
All's Well
Fire Cheese
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Swing Cleaning
Kickin' the Conga Round
Fleets of Stren'th
Blunder Below
Baby Wants a Bottleship
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Many Tanks
The Dresden Doll
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Whispers in the Dark
Twilight on the Trail
House Cleaning Blues
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
The Foxy Hunter
Ding Dong Doggie
The New Deal Show
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
The Impractical Joker
The Twisker Pitcher
My Artistical Temperature
Popeye's Premiere
Service with a Smile
Zula Hula
Peeping Penguins
Hospitaliky
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Protek the Weakerist
Chicken a la King
The Football Toucher Downer
Fowl Play
I Never Changes My Altitude
Organ Grinder's Swing
Lost and Foundry
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Little Lamby
Accordion Joe
The Cow's Husband
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
The Peanut Vendor
Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
Out of the Inkwell
Contest
The Boxing Kangaroo
The Reunion
The Runaway
The Circus
The Storm
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Fishing
My Old Kentucky Home
Row, Row, Row
Sleepy Time Down South
Surprise
Vaudeville
You're Driving Me Crazy
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Prisoner's Song
Koko Sees Spooks
Koko's Paradise
KoKo the Kop
The Clown's Pup
Perpetual Motion
Ko-Ko Smokes
Just One More Chance
On a Sunday Afternoon
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep
Somebody Stole My Gal
Alexander's Ragtime Band
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
My Baby Just Cares for Me
Russian Lullaby
Show Me the Way to Go Home
Song Shopping
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
Aloha Oe
I Like Mountain Music
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
And the Green Grass Grew All Around
Sing, Babies, Sing!
Boo, Boo, Theme Song!
Keeps Rainin' All the Time
Down by the Old Mill Stream
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
The Puzzle
Flies
Mother Gooseland
Koko Hot After It
It's the Cat's
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons
Ko-Ko at the Circus
The Fortune Teller
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942
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