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Dave Fleischer

Dave Fleischer

Biography

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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.

Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

684

Gender

Male

Birthday

1894-07-14

Place of Birth

New York City, New York, USA

Also Known As

David Fleischer, Dave Fliescher

Known For

Ko-Ko's Conquest Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons The Ouija Board Noise Annoys Ko-Ko Ko-Ko's Hot Dog Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story Ace of Spades Koko Packs 'Em Ko-Ko's War Dogs Koko Chops Suey Mr. Bug Goes to Town The Ugly Dino Granite Hotel The Glow Worm Inklings, Issue ?? 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 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp Out of the Inkwell Popeye the Sailor I Yam What I Yam Billion Dollar Limited The Arctic Giant The Bulleteers Electric Earthquake Volcano Terror on the Midway Birthday Poor Cinderella Stoopnocracy The Old Man of the Mountain Down Among the Sugar Cane The Kids in the Shoe 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 Crazy-Town Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle A Hunting We Will Go Chess-Nuts Any Rags Betty Boop's Ups and Downs Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning S.O.S. Betty Boop, M.D. Betty Boop for President The Dancing Fool I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You Admission Free Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee I Ain't Got Nobody Cartoon Factory You Try Somebody Else Just a Gigolo Time on My Hands Let Me Call You Sweetheart Rudy Vallee Melodies Minding the Baby The Betty Boop Limited Stopping the Show The Robot Blow Me Down! Wild Elephinks Parade of the Wooden Soldiers Seasin's Greetinks! Betty Boop's Ker-Choo Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions Dinah Betty Boop's May Party Ain't She Sweet Betty Boop's Birthday Party Morning, Noon and Night Betty Boop's Penthouse Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party Is My Palm Read I Heard Popular Melodies Boilesk Betty Boop's Big Boss Ko-Ko's Catch China Town, My China Town Noah's Lark The Male Man Bimbo's Express In My Merry Oldsmobile The Herring Murder Case Silly Scandals Jack and the Beanstalk After the Ball Betty Co-ed I'd Climb the Highest Mountain Kitty from Kansas City Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl Ko-Ko's Reward Oh, You Beautiful Doll That Old Gang of Mine Twenty Legs Under the Sea Little Annie Rooney Mask-A-Raid The Bum Bandit Invisible Ink Tree Saps Teacher's Pest I've Got Rings on My Fingers Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet Ko-Ko's Hypnotism 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 Keep in Style Betty Boop's Little Pal Betty Boop's Life Guard The Man on the Flying Trapeze Betty Boop's Rise to Fame When My Ship Comes In Red Hot Mamma I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight La Paloma In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree Yes! We Have No Bananas Come Take a Trip in My Airship The Stein Song Grand Uproar She Wronged Him Right Betty Boop's Prize Show I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze Talking Through My Heart I Wished on the Moon Lazy Bones Reaching for the Moon Never Should Have Told You Bimbo's Initiation My Gal Sal Fire Bugs Mariutch Strike Up the Band Wise Flies The Fresh Vegetable Mystery Radio Riot Bedelia Sky Scraping Up to Mars Hot Dog Dizzy Dishes Barnacle Bill Betty Boop and Little Jimmy Betty Boop and the Little King The Hot Air Salesman Musical Mountaineers Rhythm on the Reservation A Song a Day The Candid Candidate We Did It Not Now My Friend the Monkey Pudgy Picks a Fight Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow Training Pigeons You're Not Built That Way A Date to Skate Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching) Fadeaway Educated Fish The Clown's Little Brother Hide and Seek Modeling Child Psykolojiky The Automobile Ride Bubbles Now You're Talking Jumping Beans Koko Needles the Boss A Car-Tune Portrait Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive Koko Back Tracks Bed Time Trapped The Paneless Window Washer Somewhere in Dreamland I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski Greedy Humpty Dumpty Hold the Wire Let's Get Movin' The Little Stranger Brotherly Love Hawaiian Birds I Wanna Be a Life Guard Bridge Ahoy! Little Swee'pea A Clean Shaven Man What -- No Spinach? Never Kick a Woman Play Safe Grampy's Indoor Outing Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky The Spinach Roadster No Other One I Don't Want to Make History I Can't Escape from You More Pep Inklings, Issue 12 Koko Trains 'Em Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American Swat the Fly Making Stars No! No! A Thousand Times No!! A Little Soap and Water Happy You and Merry Me Making Friends I'm in the Army Now Be Human Stop That Noise A Language All My Own Judge for a Day Adventures of Popeye Baby Be Good Betty Boop and Grampy You Gotta Be a Football Hero Time for Love Little Nobody Be Kind to 'Aminals' The Hyp-Nut-Tist An Elephant Never Forgets Pleased to Meet Cha! Choose Your 'Weppins' The Spinach Overture King of the Mardi Gras The Song of the Birds Beware of Barnacle Bill Dancing on the Moon Dizzy Divers For Better or Worser On with the New False Alarm You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly Ants in the Plants Bunny Mooning A Kick in Time Small Fry All's Fair at the Fair I Yam Love Sick Let's Sing with Popeye She Reminds Me of You Love Thy Neighbor Little Dutch Mill We Aim to Please A Dream Walking Shiver Me Timbers! The Two-Alarm Fire Betty in Blunderland Sock-a-Bye, Baby Let's You and Him Fight Ha! Ha! Ha! The Dance Contest Shoein' Hosses Axe Me Another My Wife's Gone to the Country So Does an Automobile Be Up to Date Thrills and Chills The Scared Crows Buzzy Boop Pudgy the Watchman 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 Pudgy and the Lost Kitten The Swing School Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing Tune Up and Sing Riding the Rails Cops Is Always Right Hold It! Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh Let's Celebrake The House Builder-Upper The Jeep The Playful Polar Bears Mutiny Ain't Nice Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' Learn Polikeness Bulldozing the Bull Wotta Nitemare It's the Natural Thing to Do Ghosks Is the Bunk Leave Well Enough Alone Hello How Am I Yip-Yip-Yippy Customers Wanted The Barnyard Brat Always Kickin' Never Sock a Baby Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh Springtime in the Rock Age The Dandy Lion The Fulla Bluff Man Mommy Loves Puppy Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points Balloons Pedagogical Institution (College to You) Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit The Foul Ball Player Bring Himself Back Alive Sneak, Snoop and Snitch Wedding Belts Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse Koko Celebrates the Fourth The Cure Doing Impossikible Stunts Popeye Meets William Tell The Constable Puttin on the Act Little Lambkins Shakespearian Spinach Snubbed by a Snob Fightin Pals Onion Pacific Me Feelins is Hurt King for a Day Nurse-Mates Stealin Aint Honest Wimmin is a Myskery My Pop, My Pop Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep Poopdeck Pappy Nix on Hypnotricks Pest Pilot Olive's $weep$take Ticket Quiet! Pleeze Problem Pappy The Mighty Navy Olive's Boithday Presink Vitamin Hay I'll Never Crow Again Flies Ain't Human Two for the Zoo Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy All's Well Fire Cheese Gabby Goes Fishing Swing Cleaning It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day Twinkletoes Gets the Bird The Wizard of Arts Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff Zero the Hound Copy Cat Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows Kickin' the Conga Round Baby Wants a Bottleship Many Tanks Fleets of Stren'th Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye Blunder Below Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix The Dresden Doll Spinach Packin' Popeye Ko-Ko's Focus Whispers in the Dark Please Keep Me in Your Dreams The Foxy Hunter Twilight on the Trail The New Deal Show Whoops! I'm a Cowboy Ding Dong Doggie Service with a Smile House Cleaning Blues Zula Hula The Impractical Joker The Twisker Pitcher Chicken a la King Protek the Weakerist My Artistical Temperature Peeping Penguins Popeye's Premiere Organ Grinder's Swing The Football Toucher Downer Hospitaliky Fowl Play I Likes Babies and Infinks I Never Changes My Altitude Morning, Noon and Night Club Lost and Foundry Little Lamby Accordion Joe The Cow's Husband Christmas Comes But Once a Year The Peanut Vendor Ko-Ko's Magic Ko-Ko's Tattoo Ko-Ko Hops Off Ko-Ko the Kid Ko-Ko's Courtship Chemical Ko-Ko Ko-Ko's Hot Ink Ko-Ko's Big Sale Koko the Convict Darling Nelly Gray Margie Out of the Inkwell Pay Day The Challenge The Show Contest Masquerade The Boxing Kangaroo The Reunion Vacation Come Take a Trip in My Airship The Runaway League of Nations Sparring Partner The Hypnotist The Circus Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh The Storm Koko the Hot Shot Ko-Ko on the Run I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles Fishing Surprise Vaudeville Thanksgiving My Old Kentucky Home Comin' Thro' the Rye Koko Plays Pool Koko’s Kane Ko-Ko the Knight KoKo Explores Row, Row, Row You're Driving Me Crazy Sleepy Time Down South The Einstein Theory of Relativity Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie Song of Victory Prisoner's Song Koko Nuts The Herring Murder Mystery Sweet Adeline Ko-Ko's Queen Koko Sees Spooks Big Chief Koko Koko's Paradise Koko's Toot Toot KoKo the Kop The Clown's Pup Perpetual Motion Inklings No. 10 Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past In the Good Old Summer Time Ko-Ko Smokes Ko-Ko the Barber Shadows Jingle Bells Koko in 1999 Just One More Chance Smiles On a Sunday Afternoon Russian Lullaby By the Light of the Silvery Moon My Baby Just Cares for Me Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep Alexander's Ragtime Band I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now And the Green Grass Grew All Around Somebody Stole My Gal By the Beautiful Sea Shine on Harvest Moon Sing a Song When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along Sweet Jennie Lee Show Me the Way to Go Home I Like Mountain Music When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba Sing, Sisters, Sing! Sing, Babies, Sing! Aloha Oe Song Shopping Boo, Boo, Theme Song! Down by the Old Mill Stream Keeps Rainin' All the Time It's Easy to Remember The Hills of Old Wyomin' Magic on Broadway You Came to My Rescue You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart You Leave Me Breathless Thanks for the Memory Ye Olde Melodies Yankee Doodle Boy KoKo Lamps Aladdin Ko-Ko's Kink Koko Gets Egg-Cited The Big Fun Carnival Flies The Puzzle Koko Baffles the Bulls Koko Hot After It It's the Cat's Mother Gooseland When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam' By the Light of the Silvery Moon Oh Mabel Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons No Eyes Today In the Shade of the Old Applesauce Marriage Wows Ko-Ko Squeals Ko-Ko at the Circus Koko's Field Daze Another Bottle, Doctor KoKo's Klock The Fortune Teller 'Morning, Judge Buzzy Boop at the Concert The Sheik of Araby Inklings, Issue Unknown Koko in Toyland Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? The Vacationers' Paradise Amoozin' But Confoozin' Clay Town Mass Mouse Meeting The Gullible Canary The Disillusioned Bluebird Beside a Moonlit Stream Old Black Joe Daisy Bell Dixie Ko-Ko's Crib If You Could Shrink Experiment No. 2 Experiment No. 3 Slides Poker Cartoonland The Mosquito The Battle Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me The Laundry Goodbye My Lady Love Thaddeus and Arline The Sidewalks of New York Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main Old Pal Old Folks at Home Oh, Suzanna Nutcracker Suite My Bonnie Koko Steps Out Koko Eats East Side, West Side Dixie Daisy Bell Yak-A-Doola-Hick-A-Doola When I Lost You When I Leave This World Behind Toot Toot Tootsie Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye Pack Up Your Troubles Old Black Joe Oh What a Pal Was Mary Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning My Wife's Gone to the Country Micky Koko's Big Catch Koko Kidnapped I Love a Lassie Finiculee Fincula Everybody's Doing It Alexander's Ragtime Band Waiting for the Robert E. Lee Tumbledown Shack in Athlone The Rocky Road to Dublin Oh I Wish I Was in Michigan That Little Big Fellow Koko the Kavalier Koko's Quest KoKo Kicks Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon KoKo's Parade KoKo's Kozy Korner Ko-Ko's Germ Jam Ko-Ko's Dog-Gone Ko-Ko's Chase Ko-Ko's Big Pull Ko-Ko's Bawth Ko-Ko's Act Ko-Ko on the Track Ko-Ko in the Rough Ko-Ko Heaves-Ho Ko-Ko Goes Over Ko-Ko Cleans Up My Pony Boy Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me Ko-Ko's Signals Ko-Ko's Saxaphonies Ko-Ko's Knock Down Goodbye My Lady Love Texas in 1999 Suited to a T. Step On It For Me and My Gal I Love to Fall Asleep My Sweetie Never Say Never Beautiful Eyes Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942 Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 10 Tito's Guitar Ko-Ko Beats Time Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2 Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3 Lionel Lion Betty boop "Is My Palm Read"
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