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