- BIRTH 14/07/1894
- DEATH 25/06/1979
- Country United States
- MOVIES 2
- DIRECTOR 231
- SCRIPT 2
- PRODUCTION 1
Dave Fleischer
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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 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 (2)
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
Director (231)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Poor Cinderella
Gulliver's Travels
It's the Natural Thing to Do
The Scared Crows
Rhythm on the Reservation
Yip-Yip-Yippy
Superman
Popeye's Premiere
Dancing on the Moon
Customers Wanted
Wotta Nitemare
Ghosks Is the Bunk
Females Is Fickle
Shakespearian Spinach
So Does an Automobile
Me Feelins is Hurt
Onion Pacific
Fightin Pals
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
Popeye Meets William Tell
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Poopdeck Pappy
Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons
Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942
Small Fry
Musical Mountaineers
Thrills and Chills
My Friend the Monkey
The New Deal Show
Training Pigeons
Grampy's Indoor Outing
Be Human
Making Friends
House Cleaning Blues
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
The Hot Air Salesman
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Ding Dong Doggie
The Candid Candidate
Service with a Smile
The Foxy Hunter
Billion Dollar Limited
Zula Hula
Riding the Rails
Be Up to Date
Out of the Inkwell
Out of the Inkwell
The Swing School
Pudgy and the Lost Kitten
Buzzy Boop
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Pudgy the Watchman
Sally Swing
On with the New
Brotherly Love
Koko Packs 'Em
Koko in Toyland
Snubbed by a Snob
The Jeep
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Bulldozing the Bull
All's Fair at the Fair
Goonland
A Date to Skate
Cops Is Always Right
Hello How Am I
Stealin Aint Honest
Wimmin is a Myskery
Nurse-Mates
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Hold It!
Fire Cheese
Nix on Hypnotricks
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Baby Wants a Bottleship
Teacher's Pest
Let's All Go to the Lobby
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
Shiver Me Timbers!
The Arctic Giant
For Better or Worser
Jingle Bells
Hunky and Spunky
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
You're Not Built That Way
The Two-Alarm Fire
Ko-Ko's Haunted House
Ko-Ko's Hypnotism
Swing You Sinners!
Rudy Vallee Melodies
The Peanut Vendor
Sock-a-Bye, Baby
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
An Elephant Never Forgets
The Song of the Birds
The Kids in the Shoe
Time for Love
A Clean Shaven Man
The House Builder-Upper
The Cobweb Hotel
Greedy Humpty Dumpty
Hawaiian Birds
Play Safe
Bunny Mooning
Chicken a la King
Peeping Penguins
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Educated Fish
Protek the Weakerist
Fowl Play
Learn Polikeness
Happy You and Merry Me
Not Now
A Song a Day
Betty Boop and the Little King
Electric Earthquake
King of the Mardi Gras
Little Nobody
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol:2
The Bulleteers
Betty Boop for President
Betty Boop and Grampy
The Betty Boop Limited
Betty Boop's Big Boss
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Somewhere in Dreamland
Betty Boop's Museum
Betty Boop's May Party
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
The Barnyard Brat
The Impractical Joker
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Betty Boop's Trial
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
Barnacle Bill
Dizzy Dishes
False Alarm
Dizzy Divers
Silly Scandals
The Clown's Pup
Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
The Mechanical Monsters
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Honest Love and True
KoKo Explores
Chemical Ko-Ko
Koko’s Kane
Betty Boop, M.D.
My Pop, My Pop
More Pep
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Terror on the Midway
Koko Nuts
Koko Trains 'Em
Ko-Ko the Barber
Koko in 1999
Koko Needles the Boss
Koko Back Tracks
Big Chief Koko
Koko the Convict
Bubbles
Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
Bed Time
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Mysterious Mose
The Bum Bandit
We Did It
Betty Boop's Little Pal
The Old Man of the Mountain
I Heard
Morning, Noon and Night
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
She Wronged Him Right
Red Hot Mamma
Betty in Blunderland
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
This Little Piggie Went to Market
Betty Boop's Life Guard
There's Something About a Soldier
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Mother Goose Land
Keep in Style
When My Ship Comes In
Baby Be Good
Taking the Blame
Stop That Noise
Swat the Fly
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
A Little Soap and Water
A Language All My Own
Judge for a Day
Making Stars
I Ain't Got Nobody
Popeye the Sailor
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl
Minnie the Moocher
Bimbo's Initiation
Betty Co-ed
Bimbo's Express
Minding the Baby
Kitty from Kansas City
Mask-A-Raid
Jack and the Beanstalk
Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
Any Rags
Boop-Oop-A-Doop
The Robot
S.O.S.
Snow-White
The Dancing Fool
Crazy-Town
A Hunting We Will Go
Chess-Nuts
Admission Free
Stopping the Show
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Time on My Hands
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Is My Palm Read
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Script (2)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
King of the Mardi Gras
Production
The Disillusioned Bluebird
