Directing
Dave Fleischer
EN, FR, XX cinema · 656 credits
Born
14 July 1894
Died
25 June 1979 (aged 84)
Birthplace
New York City, New York, USA
Also known as David Fleischer · Dave Fliescher
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.
Known for
Filmography
Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
as Himself (archive footage)
Ça cartoon : Spécial Popeye
Animation Director
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
as Self (archive footage)
Hurray for Betty Boop
Animation Director
Big Bad Sindbad
Director
Popeye Makes a Movie
Director
Popeye's Premiere
Director
That's My Baby!
Associate Producer
Mass Mouse Meeting
Producer
The Arctic Giant
Director
The Bulleteers
Director
Electric Earthquake
Director
Volcano
Director
Terror on the Midway
Director
Many Tanks
Director
Fleets of Stren'th
Director
Blunder Below
Director
The Gullible Canary
Producer
Tito's Guitar
Producer
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Director, Story
Superman
Director
Child Psykolojiky
Director
Nix on Hypnotricks
Director
Pest Pilot
Director
Quiet! Pleeze
Director
Problem Pappy
Director
The Mighty Navy
Director
Vitamin Hay
Director
Flies Ain't Human
Director
Two for the Zoo
Director
All's Well
Director
Fire Cheese
Director
Gabby Goes Fishing
Director
Swing Cleaning
Director
The Wizard of Arts
Director
Zero the Hound
Director
Copy Cat
Director
Granite Hotel
Director
Females Is Fickle
Director
Ants in the Plants
Director
A Kick in Time
Director
The Dandy Lion
Director
The Fulla Bluff Man
Director
Mommy Loves Puppy
Director
Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points
1940
Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points
Director
The Foul Ball Player
Director
Wedding Belts
Director
The Constable
Director
Puttin on the Act
Director
Little Lambkins
Director
Snubbed by a Snob
Director
Fightin Pals
Director
Onion Pacific
Director
Me Feelins is Hurt
Director
King for a Day
Director
Nurse-Mates
Director
Stealin Aint Honest
Director
Wimmin is a Myskery
Director
My Pop, My Pop
Director
Poopdeck Pappy
Director
Gulliver's Travels
Director
Musical Mountaineers
Director
My Friend the Monkey
Director
Small Fry
Director
The Scared Crows
Director
Wotta Nitemare
Director
Ghosks Is the Bunk
Director
Hello How Am I
Director
Yip-Yip-Yippy
Director
Customers Wanted
Director
The Barnyard Brat
Director
Always Kickin'
Director
Never Sock a Baby
Director
Out of the Inkwell
Director
Goonland
Director
A Date to Skate
Director
On with the New
Director
I Yam Love Sick
Director
Be Up to Date
Director
Thrills and Chills
Director
Buzzy Boop
Director
Pudgy the Watchman
Director
Sally Swing
Director
Honest Love and True
Director
Hunky and Spunky
Director
The Swing School
Director
Riding the Rails
Director
Cops Is Always Right
Director
Hold It!
Director
Let's Celebrake
Director
The Jeep
Director
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Director
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Director
Learn Polikeness
Director
Bulldozing the Bull
Director
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
1938
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
Director
The Hot Air Salesman
Director
The Candid Candidate
Director
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Director
Educated Fish
Director
A Car-Tune Portrait
Director
Bunny Mooning
Director
Whispers in the Dark
Director
The Foxy Hunter
Director
The New Deal Show
Director
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
Director
Ding Dong Doggie
Director
Service with a Smile
Director
House Cleaning Blues
Director
Zula Hula
Director
The Twisker Pitcher
Director
Protek the Weakerist
Director
Peeping Penguins
Director
Hospitaliky
Director
Fowl Play
Director
Lost and Foundry
Director
Magic on Broadway
Director
The Cobweb Hotel
Director
A Song a Day
Director
We Did It
Director
Not Now
Director
Training Pigeons
Director
Greedy Humpty Dumpty
Director
Hold the Wire
Director
Let's Get Movin'
Director
The Little Stranger
Director
Brotherly Love
Director
Hawaiian Birds
Director
Bridge Ahoy!
Director
Little Swee'pea
Director
A Clean Shaven Man
Director
What -- No Spinach?
Director
Never Kick a Woman
Director
Play Safe
Director
The Spinach Roadster
Director
No Other One
Director
More Pep
Director
Making Friends
Director
I'm in the Army Now
Director
Be Human
Director
Popeye au pays des 1001 nuits
Director of Operations
Taking the Blame
Director
Musical Memories
Director
The Kids in the Shoe
Director
I Wished on the Moon
Director
Swat the Fly
Director
Making Stars
Director
Stop That Noise
Director
Judge for a Day
Director
Adventures of Popeye
Director
Baby Be Good
Director
Time for Love
Director
Little Nobody
Director
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Director
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Director
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Director
The Spinach Overture
Director
King of the Mardi Gras
Director, Writer
Dancing on the Moon
Director
Dizzy Divers
Director
For Better or Worser
Director
Poor Cinderella
Director
Betty Boop's Trial
Director
Strong to the Finich
Director
Can You Take It
Director
Keep in Style
Director
Red Hot Mamma
Director
Lazy Bones
Director
Love Thy Neighbor
Director
Little Dutch Mill
Director
We Aim to Please
Director
A Dream Walking
Director
Shiver Me Timbers!
Director
The Two-Alarm Fire
Director
Betty in Blunderland
Director
Sock-a-Bye, Baby
Director
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Director
The Dance Contest
Director
Shoein' Hosses
Director
Axe Me Another
Director
Snow-White
Director
Popeye the Sailor
Director
I Yam What I Yam
Director
Stoopnocracy
Director
I Eats My Spinach
Director
Mother Goose Land
Director
Blow Me Down!
Director
Wild Elephinks
Director
Seasin's Greetinks!
Director
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Director, Writer
Dinah
Director
Ain't She Sweet
Director
Is My Palm Read
Director
I Heard
Director
Popular Melodies
Director
Boilesk
1933
Boilesk
Director
The Peanut Vendor
Director
Sing, Sisters, Sing!
Director
Sing, Babies, Sing!
Director
Aloha Oe
Director
Song Shopping
Director
Minnie the Moocher
Director
Romantic Melodies
Director
Betty Boop's Museum
Director
Boop-Oop-A-Doop
Director
Crazy-Town
Director
A Hunting We Will Go
Director
Chess-Nuts
Director
Any Rags
Director
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
1932
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Director
S.O.S.
Director
Betty Boop, M.D.
Director
The Dancing Fool
Director
Admission Free
Director
I Ain't Got Nobody
Director
Just a Gigolo
Director
Time on My Hands
Director
Rudy Vallee Melodies
Director
Stopping the Show
Director
The Robot
Director
Hide and Seek
Director
School Days
Director
Just One More Chance
Director
Sing a Song
Director
Sweet Jennie Lee
Director
Ace of Spades
Director
Minding the Baby
Director
The Male Man
Director
Bimbo's Express
Director
Silly Scandals
Director
Betty Co-ed
Director
Little Annie Rooney
Director
Mask-A-Raid
Director
The Bum Bandit
Director
Tree Saps
Director
Teacher's Pest
Director
Bimbo's Initiation
Director
The Cow's Husband
Director
Russian Lullaby
Director
By the Beautiful Sea
Director
The Glow Worm
Director
Swing You Sinners!
Director
Mysterious Mose
Director
La Paloma
Director
The Stein Song
Director
Grand Uproar
Director
Fire Bugs
Director
Mariutch
Director
Wise Flies
Director
Radio Riot
Director
Bedelia
Director
Sky Scraping
Director
Up to Mars
Director
Hot Dog
Director
Dizzy Dishes
Director
Barnacle Bill
Director
Accordion Joe
Director
Prisoner's Song
Director
Ko-Ko's Conquest
as Himself, Director
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
1929
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
Actor, Director
Noah's Lark
Director
After the Ball
Director
Ko-Ko's Reward
Director
Ko-Ko's Hypnotism
Director
Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem
Director
Chemical Ko-Ko
Director
Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
Director
Ko-Ko's Big Sale
Director
Smiles
1929
Smiles
Director
No Eyes Today
Director
Dixie
1929
Dixie
Director
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
1929
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
Director
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
as Second Cartoonist (uncredited), Director
Ko-Ko's War Dogs
Director
KoKo's Earth Control
Director
Ko-Ko's Catch
Director
Ko-Ko's Magic
Director
Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Director
Ko-Ko's Courtship
Director
Ko-Ko Smokes
Director
KoKo Lamps Aladdin
Director
Ko-Ko's Kink
Director
Koko Plays Pool
as Pool Player (uncredited), Director
Ko-Ko Hops Off
as Artist (uncredited), Director
Koko Chops Suey
Director
Koko Needles the Boss
Director, Animation
Koko Back Tracks
Director, Animation
Ko-Ko the Kid
Director
Koko’s Kane
Director
Ko-Ko the Knight
Director
KoKo the Kop
Director
Koko in 1999
Director, Animation
KoKo's Klock
Director
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching)
Director, Animation
Fadeaway
1926
Fadeaway
Director, Animation
Koko the Convict
1926
Koko the Convict
Director, Animation
Darling Nelly Gray
Director
Margie
Director
My Old Kentucky Home
Director
Sweet Adeline
Director
Ko-Ko's Queen
Director, Animation
Koko's Paradise
1926
Koko's Paradise
Director, Animation
Koko's Toot Toot
1926
Koko's Toot Toot
Director, Animation
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Animation, Director
Koko Baffles the Bulls
Director, Animation
Koko Hot After It
Director, Animation
It's the Cat's
Director, Animation
Ko-Ko at the Circus
Director, Animation
'Morning, Judge
Director
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
1926
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Director
Micky
1926
Micky
Director
Koko Packs 'Em
Director, Animation
Koko Trains 'Em
Director
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
1925
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Director, Animation
Koko the Hot Shot
Director
Ko-Ko on the Run
Director, Animation
Thanksgiving
Director, Animation
Koko Nuts
Director, Animation
Koko Sees Spooks
Director
Big Chief Koko
1925
Big Chief Koko
Director, Animation
Ko-Ko the Barber
Director, Animation
Koko in Toyland
Director, Animation
Old Pal
1925
Old Pal
Director
Dixie
1925
Dixie
Director
Cartoon Factory
Director, Animation
Trip to Mars
1924
Trip to Mars
Director, Animation
The Cure
1924
The Cure
Director
Masquerade
Director
Vacation
1924
Vacation
Director
The Runaway
Director
League of Nations
Director
Sparring Partner
Director
The Storm
Director, Animation
Vaudeville
1924
Vaudeville
Director, Animation
Mother Gooseland
Director, Animation
Oh Mabel
1924
Oh Mabel
Director
Clay Town
Director
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
1924
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
Director
Bed Time
Director
Trapped
1923
Trapped
Director
Balloons
Director
Contest
Director
Surprise
Director
Shadows
1923
Shadows
Director
The Puzzle
Director
The Fortune Teller
Director
Birthday
Director
Bubbles
Director
The Dresden Doll
Director
Pay Day
Director
The Challenge
Director
The Show
Director
The Reunion
Director
Flies
Director
Invisible Ink
Director
Modeling
Director
The Automobile Ride
Director
Fishing
Director
The Chinaman
Director
The Circus
Director
Perpetual Motion
Director
Poker
1920
Poker
Director
Out of the Inkwell
Director
Slides
1919
Slides
Director