
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.
Acting (5 movies)
Directing (636 movies)

Ace of Spades
1931

Koko Packs 'Em
1925

Ko-Ko's War Dogs
1928

Koko Chops Suey
1927

Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
The Ugly Dino
1940

Granite Hotel
1940

The Glow Worm
1930
Inklings, Issue ??
1927

Gulliver's Travels
1939

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936

The Mechanical Monsters
1941

Taking the Blame
1935

Minnie the Moocher
1932

Musical Memories
1935

Superman
1941

The Magnetic Telescope
1942

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937

The Chinaman
1920

Snow-White
1933

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1939

Out of the Inkwell
1938

Popeye the Sailor
1933

I Yam What I Yam
1933

Billion Dollar Limited
1942

The Arctic Giant
1942

The Bulleteers
1942

Electric Earthquake
1942

Volcano
1942

Terror on the Midway
1942

Birthday
1922

Poor Cinderella
1934

Stoopnocracy
1933

The Old Man of the Mountain
1933

Down Among the Sugar Cane
1932

The Kids in the Shoe
1935

Romantic Melodies
1932

I Eats My Spinach
1933

Goonland
1938

Ko-Ko's Conquest
1929

Mother Goose Land
1933

Betty Boop's Museum
1932

Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
1931

The Cobweb Hotel
1936

Females Is Fickle
1940

KoKo's Earth Control
1928

Boop-Oop-A-Doop
1932

Crazy-Town
1932

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
1932

A Hunting We Will Go
1932

Chess-Nuts
1932

Any Rags
1932

Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
1932
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
1932

S.O.S.
1932

Betty Boop, M.D.
1932

Betty Boop for President
1932

The Dancing Fool
1932

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932

Admission Free
1932

Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
1932

I Ain't Got Nobody
1932

Cartoon Factory
1924

You Try Somebody Else
1932

Just a Gigolo
1932

Time on My Hands
1932
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1932

Rudy Vallee Melodies
1932

Minding the Baby
1931

The Betty Boop Limited
1932

Stopping the Show
1932

The Robot
1932

Blow Me Down!
1933

Wild Elephinks
1933

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
1933

Seasin's Greetinks!
1933

Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
1933

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
1933

Dinah
1933

Betty Boop's May Party
1933

Ain't She Sweet
1933

Betty Boop's Birthday Party
1933

Morning, Noon and Night
1933

Betty Boop's Penthouse
1933

Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
1933

Is My Palm Read
1933

I Heard
1933

Popular Melodies
1933
Boilesk
1933

Betty Boop's Big Boss
1933

Ko-Ko's Catch
1928

China Town, My China Town
1929

Noah's Lark
1929

The Male Man
1931

Bimbo's Express
1931
In My Merry Oldsmobile
1931

The Herring Murder Case
1931

Silly Scandals
1931

Jack and the Beanstalk
1931

After the Ball
1929
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| King of the Mardi Gras | 1935 | Writer | 
| Mr. Bug Goes to Town | 1941 | Writer | 
| Song of Victory | 1942 | Producer | 
| The Gullible Canary | 1942 | Producer | 
| Tito's Guitar | 1942 | Producer | 
| Mass Mouse Meeting | 1943 | Producer | 
| The Herring Murder Mystery | 1943 | Producer | 
| Amoozin' But Confoozin' | 1944 | Producer | 
| The Disillusioned Bluebird | 1944 | Producer | 



