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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.
Filmography
all 605
Movies 605
Director 551
Producer 37
self 1
Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons (2015)
Santa Claus und seine Freunde (2009)
Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past (2007)
Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 - Volume One (2007)
Looney Tunes Spotlight Collection Vol:2 (2004)
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons (1995)
Hurray for Betty Boop (1980)
The Big Fun Carnival (1957)
Big Bad Sindbad (1952)
Popeye Makes a Movie (1950)
Popeye's Premiere (1949)
That's My Baby! (1944)
Spinach Packin' Popeye (1944)
The Disillusioned Bluebird (1944)
Tangled Travels (1944)
Sadie Hawkins Day (1944)
The Dream Kids (1944)
Giddy-Yapping (1944)
Amoozin' But Confoozin' (1944)
Magic Strength (1944)
Polly Wants a Doctor (1944)
The Herring Murder Mystery (1943)
The Playful Pest (1943)
Way Down Yonder in the Corn (1943)
Imagination (1943)
The Cocky Bantam (1943)
The Rocky Road to Ruin (1943)
Nursery Crimes (1943)
Dizzy Newsreel (1943)
A-Hunting We Won't Go (1943)
Secret Agent (1943)
The Fly In The Ointment (1943)
Mass Mouse Meeting (1943)
Tree for Two (1943)
The Underground World (1943)
He Can't Make It Stick (1943)
Duty and the Beast (1943)
Plenty Below Zero (1943)
Willoughby's Magic Hat (1943)
Professor Small and Mr. Tall (1943)
Jungle Drums (1943)
Kindly Scram (1943)
The Mummy Strikes (1943)
The Vitamin G-Man (1943)
Slay It with Flowers (1943)
Cholly Polly (1942)
Destruction Inc. (1942)
King Midas, Junior (1942)
Toll Bridge Troubles (1942)
Eleventh Hour (1942)
Malice in Slumberland (1942)
Tito's Guitar (1942)
The Dumbconscious Mind (1942)
Showdown (1942)
Japoteurs (1942)
The Gullible Canary (1942)
Alona on the Sarong Seas (1942)
Song of Victory (1942)
Terror on the Midway (1942)
You're a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)
Volcano (1942)
Baby Wants a Bottleship (1942)
Many Tanks (1942)
Electric Earthquake (1942)
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix (1942)
The Magnetic Telescope (1942)
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye (1942)
The Raven (1942)
The Bulleteers (1942)
Fleets of Stren'th (1942)
The Arctic Giant (1942)
Blunder Below (1942)
Kickin' the Conga Round (1942)
Billion Dollar Limited (1942)
The Vacationer's Paradise (1942)
Nix on Hypnotricks (1941)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941)
The Mechanical Monsters (1941)
The Mighty Navy (1941)
Superman (1941)
Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942 (1941)
I'll Never Crow Again (1941)
Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff (1941)
Vitamin Hay (1941)
Two for the Zoo (1941)
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day (1941)
Pest Pilot (1941)
The Wizard of Arts (1941)
Gabby Goes Fishing (1941)
Copy Cat (1941)
Child Psykolojiky (1941)
Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows (1941)
Fire Cheese (1941)
Olive's Boithday Presink (1941)
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle (1941)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble (1941)
Zero the Hound (1941)
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941)
Swing Cleaning (1941)
Flies Ain't Human (1941)
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird (1941)
Olive's $weep$take Ticket (1941)
Quiet! Pleeze (1941)
All's Well (1941)
Problem Pappy (1941)
Bring Himself Back Alive (1940)
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep (1940)
Mommy Loves Puppy (1940)
Poopdeck Pappy (1940)
The Constable (1940)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch (1940)
My Pop, My Pop (1940)
King for a Day (1940)
Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh (1940)
Popeye Meets William Tell (1940)
The Dandy Lion (1940)
Pedagogical Institution (College to You) (1940)
Puttin on the Act (1940)
Springtime in the Rock Age (1940)
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly (1940)
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive (1940)
The Fulla Bluff Man (1940)
Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940)
Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit (1940)
Snubbed by a Snob (1940)
Fightin Pals (1940)
Wedding Belts (1940)
Nurse-Mates (1940)
The Ugly Dino (1940)
Wimmin is a Myskery (1940)
Onion Pacific (1940)
The Foul Ball Player (1940)
A Kick in Time (1940)
Granite Hotel (1940)
Me Feelins is Hurt (1940)
Stealin Aint Honest (1940)
Ants in the Plants (1940)
Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick (1940)
Females Is Fickle (1940)
Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse (1940)
Little Lambkins (1940)
Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points (1940)
Shakespearian Spinach (1940)
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Never Sock a Baby (1939)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939)
Yip-Yip-Yippy (1939)
It's the Natural Thing to Do (1939)
Hello How Am I (1939)
Rhythm on the Reservation (1939)
The Barnyard Brat (1939)
Ghosks is the Bunk (1939)
The Scared Crows (1939)
Wotta Nitemare (1939)
Musical Mountaineers (1939)
Leave Well Enough Alone (1939)
Small Fry (1939)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939)
So Does an Automobile (1939)
Customers Wanted (1939)
My Friend the Monkey (1939)
Always Kickin' (1939)
Cops Is Always Right (1938)
Thrills and Chills (1938)
On with the New (1938)
A Date to Skate (1938)
The Playful Polar Bears (1938)
Goonland (1938)
Sally Swing (1938)
Mutiny Ain't Nice (1938)
Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938)
All's Fair at the Fair (1938)
Bulldozing the Bull (1938)
Pudgy the Watchman (1938)
Buzzy Boop (1938)
The Jeep (1938)
Hunky and Spunky (1938)
Pudgy and the Lost Kitten (1938)
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' (1938)
I Yam Love Sick (1938)
The Swing School (1938)
You Leave Me Breathless (1938)
Hold It! (1938)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938)
Out of the Inkwell (1938)
Thanks for the Memory (1938)
Honest Love and True (1938)
The House Builder-Upper (1938)
The Tears of an Onion (1938)
Be Up to Date (1938)
Learn Polikeness (1938)
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart (1938)
Riding the Rails (1938)
Let's Celebrake (1938)
Little Lamby (1937)
Zula Hula (1937)
Fowl Play (1937)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (1937)
Magic on Broadway (1937)
The Foxy Hunter (1937)
Protek the Weakerist (1937)
Educated Fish (1937)
The New Deal Show (1937)
The Football Toucher Downer (1937)
Whispers in the Dark (1937)
Service with a Smile (1937)
I Likes Babies and Infinks (1937)
The Candid Candidate (1937)
Peeping Penguins (1937)
I Never Changes My Altitude (1937)
You Came to My Rescue (1937)
Ding Dong Doggie (1937)
Lost and Foundry (1937)
A Car-Tune Portrait (1937)
Morning, Noon and Night Club (1937)
The Impractical Joker (1937)
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams (1937)
The Twisker Pitcher (1937)
Pudgy Picks a Fight (1937)
Chicken a la King (1937)
Hospitaliky (1937)
Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow (1937)
Twilight on the Trail (1937)
My Artistical Temperature (1937)
The Hot Air Salesman (1937)
Organ Grinder's Swing (1937)
Bunny Mooning (1937)
Whoops! I'm a Cowboy (1937)
Never Should Have Told You (1937)
The Paneless Window Washer (1937)
House Cleaning Blues (1937)
I'm in the Army Now (1936)
Making Friends (1936)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936)
Talking Through My Heart (1936)
The Spinach Roadster (1936)
Be Human (1936)
Hold the Wire (1936)
Grampy's Indoor Outing (1936)
Play Safe (1936)
Little Swee'pea (1936)
I Can't Escape from You (1936)
Training Pigeons (1936)
Never Kick a Woman (1936)
Hawaiian Birds (1936)
Happy You and Merry Me (1936)
Let's Get Movin' (1936)
The Hills of Old Wyomin' (1936)
You're Not Built That Way (1936)
Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936)
More Pep (1936)
A Song a Day (1936)
I Don't Want to Make History (1936)
The Cobweb Hotel (1936)
What -- No Spinach? (1936)
Bridge Ahoy! (1936)
We Did It (1936)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936)
I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze (1936)
The Little Stranger (1936)
Brotherly Love (1936)
Not Now (1936)
A Clean Shaven Man (1936)
Betty Boop and the Little King (1936)
Little Nobody (1936)
No Other One (1936)
Somewhere in Dreamland (1936)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky (1936)
It's Easy to Remember (1935)
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American (1935)
The Spinach Overture (1935)
Musical Memories (1935)
Adventures of Popeye (1935)
Making Stars (1935)
King of the Mardi Gras (1935)
Judge for a Day (1935)
I Wished on the Moon (1935)
Time for Love (1935)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935)
Betty Boop and Grampy (1935)
Dizzy Divers (1935)
A Language All My Own (1935)
Dancing on the Moon (1935)
For Better or Worser (1935)
A Little Soap and Water (1935)
Choose Your 'Weppins' (1935)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935)
The Kids in the Shoe (1935)
The Hyp-Nut-Tist (1935)
Swat the Fly (1935)
Pleased to Meet Cha! (1935)
Stop That Noise (1935)
The Song of the Birds (1935)
Be Kind to 'Aminals' (1935)
Taking the Blame (1935)
Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935)
Baby Be Good (1935)
An Elephant Never Forgets (1935)
We Aim to Please (1934)
When My Ship Comes In (1934)
The Dance Contest (1934)
Betty Boop- Keep in Style (1934)
Little Dutch Mill (1934)
The Two-Alarm Fire (1934)
Betty Boop's Prize Show (1934)
A Dream Walking (1934)
Betty Boop's Little Pal (1934)
Axe Me Another (1934)
There's Something About a Soldier (1934)
Poor Cinderella (1934)
Shiver Me Timbers! (1934)
Love Thy Neighbor (1934)
Betty Boop's Life Guard (1934)
Strong to the Finich (1934)
Can You Take It (1934)
She Reminds Me of You (1934)
Betty Boop's Trial (1934)
Shoein' Hosses (1934)
This Little Piggie Went to Market (1934)
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame (1934)
Lazy Bones (1934)
Betty in Blunderland (1934)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934)
Tune Up and Sing (1934)
Let's Sing with Popeye (1934)
Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934)
Let's You and Him Fight (1934)
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing (1934)
Red Hot Mamma (1934)
Sock-a-Bye, Baby (1934)
Keeps Rainin' All the Time (1934)
She Wronged Him Right (1934)
Wild Elephinks (1933)
Seasin's Greetinks! (1933)
Sing, Babies, Sing! (1933)
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (1933)
I Eats My Spinach (1933)
I Like Mountain Music (1933)
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party (1933)
Blow Me Down! (1933)
Morning, Noon and Night (1933)
Boo, Boo, Theme Song! (1933)
I Yam What I Yam (1933)
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba (1933)
I Heard (1933)
Stoopnocracy (1933)
The Old Man of the Mountain (1933)
Snow-White (1933)
Down by the Old Mill Stream (1933)
Popeye the Sailor (1933)
Sing, Sisters, Sing! (1933)
Mother Goose Land (1933)
Boilesk (1933)
Betty Boop's Big Boss (1933)
Song Shopping (1933)
Betty Boop's May Party (1933)
The Peanut Vendor (1933)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party (1933)
Popular Melodies (1933)
Aloha Oe (1933)
Betty Boop's Penthouse (1933)
Reaching for the Moon (1933)
Is My Palm Read (1933)
Ain't She Sweet (1933)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933)
Dinah (1933)
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo (1933)
Time on My Hands (1932)
Betty Boop's Museum (1932)
Sing a Song (1932)
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (1932)
Sleepy Time Down South (1932)
Betty Boop for President (1932)
Romantic Melodies (1932)
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs (1932)
School Days (1932)
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle (1932)
Just a Gigolo (1932)
Betty Boop, M.D. (1932)
Down Among the Sugar Cane (1932)
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee (1932)
Stopping the Show (1932)
Rudy Vallee Melodies (1932)
You Try Somebody Else (1932)
The Betty Boop Limited (1932)
I Ain't Got Nobody (1932)
Admission Free (1932)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932)
Shine on Harvest Moon (1932)
A Hunting We Will Go (1932)
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1932)
Chess-Nuts (1932)
The Dancing Fool (1932)
Just One More Chance (1932)
Hide and Seek (1932)
Crazy-Town (1932)
S.O.S. (1932)
Minnie the Moocher (1932)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1932)
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along (1932)
The Robot (1932)
Show Me the Way to Go Home (1932)
Sweet Jennie Lee (1932)
Boop-Oop-A-Doop (1932)
Any Rags (1932)
Russian Lullaby (1931)
Dizzy Red Riding-Hood (1931)
My Baby Just Cares for Me (1931)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1931)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1931)
Mask-A-Raid (1931)
Kitty from Kansas City (1931)
In the Shade of the Old Applesauce (1931)
Little Annie Rooney (1931)
Minding the Baby (1931)
You're Driving Me Crazy (1931)
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931)
Bimbo's Express (1931)
Betty Co-ed (1931)
Bimbo's Initiation (1931)
The Herring Murder Case (1931)
That Old Gang of Mine (1931)
Twenty Legs Under the Sea (1931)
My Wife's Gone to the Country (1931)
And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1931)
Silly Scandals (1931)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1931)
The Male Man (1931)
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl (1931)
The Bum Bandit (1931)
Somebody Stole My Gal (1931)
In My Merry Oldsmobile (1931)
The Cow's Husband (1931)
Hurry Doctor! (1931)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1931)
Tree Saps (1931)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now (1931)
Teacher's Pest (1931)
By the Beautiful Sea (1931)
Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep (1931)
Ace of Spades (1931)
Mysterious Mose (1930)
Row, Row, Row (1930)
Accordion Joe (1930)
On a Sunday Afternoon (1930)
Up To Mars (1930)
Mariutch (1930)
Sky Scraping (1930)
My Gal Sal (1930)
Grand Uproar (1930)
Strike Up the Band (1930)
Swing You Sinners! (1930)
The Stein Song (1930)
Barnacle Bill (1930)
The Glow Worm (1930)
Dizzy Dishes (1930)
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (1930)
Wise Flies (1930)
In the Good Old Summertime (1930)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1930)
Fire Bugs (1930)
Yes! We Have No Bananas (1930)
La Paloma (1930)
Hot Dog (1930)
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles (1930)
Prisoner's Song (1930)
Radio Riot (1930)
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark (1930)
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree (1930)
Bedelia (1930)
Marriage Wows (1929)
I've Got Rings on My Fingers (1929)
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (1929)
Noah's Lark (1929)
Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1929)
Smiles (1929)
Chinatown, My Chinatown (1929)
Chemical Ko-Ko (1929)
Ko-Ko's Hypnotism (1929)
Ko-Ko's Big Sale (1929)
Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem (1929)
After the Ball (1929)
Ko-Ko's Conquest (1929)
Ko-Ko's Focus (1929)
Ye Olde Melodies (1929)
Ko-Ko's Hot Ink (1929)
Yankee Doodle Boy (1929)
Ko-Ko's Reward (1929)
Ko-Ko Beats Time (1929)
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko (1929)
No Eyes Today (1929)
Ko-Ko's Courtship (1928)
Ko-Ko's Magic (1928)
Ko-Ko's War Dogs (1928)
Ko-Ko's Catch (1928)
Ko-Ko's Haunted House (1928)
KoKo's Earth Control (1928)
Ko-Ko's Tattoo (1928)
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog (1928)
Ko-Ko's Kink (1928)
Ko-Ko Squeals (1928)
Inklings No. 10 (1928)
Ko-Ko the Kid (1927)
Ko-Ko's Klock (1927)
Koko Chops Suey (1927)
Ko Ko Explores (1927)
Ko-Ko the Kop (1927)
Ko-Ko Hops Off (1927)
Ko-Ko the Knight (1927)
Koko’s Kane (1927)
Koko Plays Pool (1927)
Koko Needles the Boss (1927)
Now You're Talking (1927)
Jingle Bells (1927)
Koko in 1999 (1927)
Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh (1927)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1927)
Koko Back Tracks (1927)
Inklings, Issue Unknown (1927)
Inklings, Issue ?? (1927)
Pack Up Your Troubles (1926)
Koko Gets Egg-Cited (1926)
Koko the Convict (1926)
When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam' (1926)
Margie (1926)
Ko-Ko's Queen (1926)
Comin' Thro' the Rye (1926)
The Sheik of Araby (1926)
'Morning, Judge (1926)
Fadeaway (1926)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching (1926)
Koko Hot After It (1926)
In the Good Old Summer Time (1926)
My Old Kentucky Home (1926)
Koko's Toot Toot (1926)
It's the Cats (1926)
Sweet Adeline (1926)
Koko at the Circus (1926)
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1926)
Koko Baffles the Bulls (1926)
Ko-Ko Smokes (1926)
Koko's Paradise (1926)
Darling Nelly Gray (1926)
Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving (1925)
Koko Packs 'Em (1925)
Koko Nuts (1925)
Ko-Ko on the Run (1925)
Koko Sees Spooks (1925)
Koko Celebrates the Fourth (1925)
Koko Trains 'Em (1925)
Big Chief Koko (1925)
Ko-Ko the Barber (1925)
Koko in Toyland (1925)
Koko the Hot Shot (1925)
Inklings, Issue 12 (1925)
The Storm (1924)
The Cure (1924)
Sparring Partner (1924)
League of Nations (1924)
Vaudeville (1924)
Vacation (1924)
The Runaway (1924)
Clay Town (1924)
Trip to Mars (1924)
Mother Gooseland (1924)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924)
Cartoon Factory (1924)
Masquerade (1924)
The Contest (1923)
Shadows (1923)
The Fortune Teller (1923)
Balloons (1923)
False Alarm (1923)
Evolution (1923)
Trapped (1923)
The Puzzle (1923)
Surprise (1923)
Bed Time (1923)
The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923)
Jumping Beans (1922)
The Hypnotist (1922)
The Reunion (1922)
The Show (1922)
The Challenge (1922)
Pay Day (1922)
Flies (1922)
Bubbles (1922)
Birthday (1922)
The Dresden Doll (1922)
Invisible Ink (1921)
Fishing (1921)
Modeling (1921)
The Automobile Ride (1921)
Perpetual Motion (1920)
The Clown's Little Brother (1920)
The Ouija Board (1920)
The Chinaman (1920)
The Circus (1920)
The Boxing Kangaroo (1920)
The Clown's Pup (1919)
Out of the Inkwell (1919)
KoKo Lamps Aladdin
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GenderMale
Birthday1894-07-14
Deathday1979-06-25 (84 years old)
Birth PlaceNew York City, United States of America
SiblingsMax Fleischer
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsDavid Fleischer, Dave Fliescher
AwardsWinsor McCay Award
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