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)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
(Director)
Out of the Inkwell
(Director)
Popeye the Sailor
(Director)
I Yam What I Yam
(Director)
Billion Dollar Limited
(Director)
The Arctic Giant
(Director)
The Bulleteers
(Director)
Electric Earthquake
(Director)
Volcano
(Director)
Terror on the Midway
(Director)
Birthday
(Director)
Poor Cinderella
(Director)
Stoopnocracy
(Director)
The Old Man of the Mountain
(Director)
Down Among the Sugar Cane
(Director)
The Kids in the Shoe
(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)
Crazy-Town
(Director)
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
(Director)
A Hunting We Will Go
(Director)
Chess-Nuts
(Director)
Any Rags
(Director)
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
(Director)
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
(Director)
S.O.S.
(Director)
Betty Boop, M.D.
(Director)
Betty Boop for President
(Director)
The Dancing Fool
(Director)
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
(Director)
Admission Free
(Director)
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
(Director)
I Ain't Got Nobody
(Director)
Cartoon Factory
(Director)
You Try Somebody Else
(Director)
Just a Gigolo
(Director)
Time on My Hands
(Director)
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
(Director)
Rudy Vallee Melodies
(Director)
Minding the Baby
(Director)
The Betty Boop Limited
(Director)
Stopping the Show
(Director)
The Robot
(Director)
Blow Me Down!
(Director)
Wild Elephinks
(Director)
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
(Director)
Seasin's Greetinks!
(Director)
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
(Director)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
(Director)
Dinah
(Director)
Betty Boop's May Party
(Director)
Ain't She Sweet
(Director)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
(Director)
Morning, Noon and Night
(Director)
Betty Boop's Penthouse
(Director)
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
(Director)
Is My Palm Read
(Director)
I Heard
(Director)
Popular Melodies
(Director)
Boilesk
(Director)
Betty Boop's Big Boss
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Catch
(Director)
Chinatown, My Chinatown
(Director)
Noah's Lark
(Director)
The Male Man
(Director)
Bimbo's Express
(Director)
In My Merry Oldsmobile
(Director)
The Herring Murder Case
(Director)
Silly Scandals
(Director)
Jack and the Beanstalk
(Director)
After the Ball
(Director)
Betty Co-ed
(Director)
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
(Director)
Kitty from Kansas City
(Director)
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Reward
(Director)
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
(Director)
That Old Gang of Mine
(Director)
Twenty Legs Under the Sea
(Director)
Little Annie Rooney
(Director)
Mask-A-Raid
(Director)
The Bum Bandit
(Director)
Invisible Ink
(Director)
Tree Saps
(Director)
Teacher's Pest
(Director)
I've Got Rings on My Fingers
(Director)
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
(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)
Keep in Style
(Director)
Betty Boop's Little Pal
(Director)
Betty Boop's Life Guard
(Director)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
(Director)
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
(Director)
When My Ship Comes In
(Director)
Red Hot Mamma
(Director)
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
(Director)
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
(Director)
La Paloma
(Director)
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
(Director)
Yes! We Have No Bananas
(Director)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
(Director)
The Stein Song
(Director)
Grand Uproar
(Director)
She Wronged Him Right
(Director)
Betty Boop's Prize Show
(Director)
I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
(Director)
Talking Through My Heart
(Director)
I Wished on the Moon
(Director)
Lazy Bones
(Director)
Reaching for the Moon
(Director)
Never Should Have Told You
(Director)
Bimbo's Initiation
(Director)
My Gal Sal
(Director)
Fire Bugs
(Director)
Mariutch
(Director)
Strike Up the Band
(Director)
Wise Flies
(Director)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
(Director)
Radio Riot
(Director)
Bedelia
(Director)
Sky Scraping
(Director)
Up to Mars
(Director)
Hot Dog
(Director)
Dizzy Dishes
(Director)
Barnacle Bill
(Director)
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
(Director)
Betty Boop and the Little King
(Director)
The Hot Air Salesman
(Director)
Musical Mountaineers
(Director)
Rhythm on the Reservation
(Director)
A Song a Day
(Director)
The Candid Candidate
(Director)
We Did It
(Director)
Not Now
(Director)
My Friend the Monkey
(Director)
Pudgy Picks a Fight
(Director)
Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
(Director)
Training Pigeons
(Director)
You're Not Built That Way
(Director)
A Date to Skate
(Director)
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching
(Director)
Fadeaway
(Director)
Educated Fish
(Director)
The Clown's Little Brother
(Director)
Hide and Seek
(Director)
Modeling
(Director)
Child Psykolojiky
(Director)
The Automobile Ride
(Director)
Bubbles
(Director)
Now You're Talking
(Director)
Jumping Beans
(Director)
Koko Needles the Boss
(Director)
A Car-Tune Portrait
(Director)
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
(Director)
Koko Back Tracks
(Director)
Bed Time
(Director)
Trapped
(Director)
The Paneless Window Washer
(Director)
Somewhere in Dreamland
(Director)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
(Director)
Greedy Humpty Dumpty
(Director)
Hold the Wire
(Director)
Let's Get Movin'
(Director)
The Little Stranger
(Director)
Brotherly Love
(Director)
Hawaiian Birds
(Director)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
(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)
Grampy's Indoor Outing
(Director)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
(Director)
The Spinach Roadster
(Director)
No Other One
(Director)
I Don't Want to Make History
(Director)
I Can't Escape from You
(Director)
More Pep
(Director)
Inklings, Issue 12
(Director)
Koko Trains 'Em
(Director)
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
(Director)
Swat the Fly
(Director)
Making Stars
(Director)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
(Director)
A Little Soap and Water
(Director)
Happy You and Merry Me
(Director)
Making Friends
(Director)
I'm in the Army Now
(Director)
Be Human
(Director)
Stop That Noise
(Director)
A Language All My Own
(Director)
Judge for a Day
(Director)
Adventures of Popeye
(Director)
Baby Be Good
(Director)
Betty Boop and Grampy
(Director)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
(Director)
Time for Love
(Director)
Little Nobody
(Director)
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
(Director)
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
(Director)
An Elephant Never Forgets
(Director)
Pleased to Meet Cha!
(Director)
Choose Your 'Weppins'
(Director)
The Spinach Overture
(Director)
King of the Mardi Gras
(Director)
The Song of the Birds
(Director)
Beware of Barnacle Bill
(Director)
Dancing on the Moon
(Director)
Dizzy Divers
(Director)
For Better or Worser
(Director)
On with the New
(Director)
False Alarm
(Director)
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
(Director)
Ants in the Plants
(Director)
Bunny Mooning
(Director)
A Kick in Time
(Director)
Small Fry
(Director)
All's Fair at the Fair
(Director)
I Yam Love Sick
(Director)
Let's Sing with Popeye
(Director)
She Reminds Me of You
(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)
Let's You and Him Fight
(Director)
Ha! Ha! Ha!
(Director)
The Dance Contest
(Director)
Shoein' Hosses
(Director)
Axe Me Another
(Director)
My Wife's Gone to the Country
(Director)
So Does an Automobile
(Director)
Be Up to Date
(Director)
Thrills and Chills
(Director)
The Scared Crows
(Director)
Buzzy Boop
(Director)
Pudgy the Watchman
(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)
Pudgy and the Lost Kitten
(Director)
The Swing School
(Director)
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
(Director)
Tune Up and Sing
(Director)
Riding the Rails
(Director)
Cops Is Always Right
(Director)
Hold It!
(Director)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
(Director)
Let's Celebrake
(Director)
The House Builder-Upper
(Director)
The Jeep
(Director)
The Playful Polar Bears
(Director)
Mutiny Ain't Nice
(Director)
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
(Director)
Learn Polikeness
(Director)
Bulldozing the Bull
(Director)
Wotta Nitemare
(Director)
It's the Natural Thing to Do
(Director)
Ghosks Is the Bunk
(Director)
Leave Well Enough Alone
(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)
Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
(Director)
Springtime in the Rock Age
(Director)
The Dandy Lion
(Director)
The Fulla Bluff Man
(Director)
Mommy Loves Puppy
(Director)
Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points
(Director)
Balloons
(Director)
Pedagogical Institution (College to You)
(Director)
Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit
(Director)
The Foul Ball Player
(Director)
Bring Himself Back Alive
(Director)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
(Director)
Wedding Belts
(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)
Doing Impossikible Stunts
(Director)
Popeye Meets William Tell
(Director)
The Constable
(Director)
Puttin on the Act
(Director)
Little Lambkins
(Director)
Shakespearian Spinach
(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)
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
(Director)
Poopdeck Pappy
(Director)
Nix on Hypnotricks
(Director)
Pest Pilot
(Director)
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
(Director)
Quiet! Pleeze
(Director)
Problem Pappy
(Director)
The Mighty Navy
(Director)
Olive's Boithday Presink
(Director)
Vitamin Hay
(Director)
I'll Never Crow Again
(Director)
Flies Ain't Human
(Director)
Two for the Zoo
(Director)
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
(Director)
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
(Director)
All's Well
(Director)
Fire Cheese
(Director)
Gabby Goes Fishing
(Director)
Swing Cleaning
(Director)
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
(Director)
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
(Director)
The Wizard of Arts
(Director)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble
(Director)
Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff
(Director)
Zero the Hound
(Director)
Copy Cat
(Director)
Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows
(Director)
Kickin' the Conga Round
(Director)
Baby Wants a Bottleship
(Director)
Many Tanks
(Director)
Fleets of Stren'th
(Director)
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
(Director)
Blunder Below
(Director)
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
(Director)
The Dresden Doll
(Director)
Spinach Packin' Popeye
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Focus
(Director)
Whispers in the Dark
(Director)
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
(Director)
The Foxy Hunter
(Director)
Twilight on the Trail
(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 Impractical Joker
(Director)
The Twisker Pitcher
(Director)
Chicken a la King
(Director)
Protek the Weakerist
(Director)
My Artistical Temperature
(Director)
Peeping Penguins
(Director)
Popeye's Premiere
(Director)
Organ Grinder's Swing
(Director)
The Football Toucher Downer
(Director)
Hospitaliky
(Director)
Fowl Play
(Director)
I Likes Babies and Infinks
(Director)
I Never Changes My Altitude
(Director)
Morning, Noon and Night Club
(Director)
Lost and Foundry
(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 Magic
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Tattoo
(Director)
Ko-Ko Hops Off
(Director)
Ko-Ko the Kid
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Courtship
(Director)
Chemical Ko-Ko
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Big Sale
(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)
The Reunion
(Director)
Vacation
(Director)
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
(Director)
The Runaway
(Director)
League of Nations
(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)
Surprise
(Director)
Vaudeville
(Director)
Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving
(Director)
My Old Kentucky Home
(Director)
Comin' Thro' the Rye
(Director)
Koko Plays Pool
(Director)
Koko’s Kane
(Director)
Ko-Ko the Knight
(Director)
KoKo Explores
(Director)
Row, Row, Row
(Director)
You're Driving Me Crazy
(Director)
Sleepy Time Down South
(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
(Director)
Big Chief Koko
(Animation)
Koko's Paradise
(Director)
Koko's Paradise
(Animation)
Koko's Toot Toot
(Director)
Koko's Toot Toot
(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)
Jingle Bells
(Director)
Koko in 1999
(Director)
Just One More Chance
(Director)
Smiles
(Director)
On a Sunday Afternoon
(Director)
Russian Lullaby
(Director)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(Director)
My Baby Just Cares for Me
(Director)
Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep
(Director)
Alexander's Ragtime Band
(Director)
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
(Director)
And the Green Grass Grew All Around
(Director)
Somebody Stole My Gal
(Director)
By the Beautiful Sea
(Director)
Shine on Harvest Moon
(Director)
Sing a Song
(Director)
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
(Director)
Sweet Jennie Lee
(Director)
Show Me the Way to Go Home
(Director)
I Like Mountain Music
(Director)
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
(Director)
Sing, Sisters, Sing!
(Director)
Sing, Babies, Sing!
(Director)
Aloha Oe
(Director)
Song Shopping
(Director)
Boo, Boo, Theme Song!
(Director)
Down by the Old Mill Stream
(Director)
Keeps Rainin' All the Time
(Director)
It's Easy to Remember
(Director)
The Hills of Old Wyomin'
(Director)
Magic on Broadway
(Director)
You Came to My Rescue
(Director)
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
(Director)
You Leave Me Breathless
(Director)
Thanks for the Memory
(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
(Animation)
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
(Director)
The Big Fun Carnival
(Director)
Flies
(Director)
The Puzzle
(Director)
Koko Baffles the Bulls
(Director)
Koko Hot After It
(Director)
It's the Cat's
(Director)
Mother Gooseland
(Director)
When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'
(Director)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
(Director)
Oh Mabel
(Director)
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
(Director)
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
(Director)
Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons
(Director)
Cartoon Factory
(Animation)
Trip to Mars
(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)
Mass Mouse Meeting
(Producer)
The Gullible Canary
(Producer)
The Disillusioned Bluebird
(Producer)
Beside a Moonlit Stream
(Director)
Old Black Joe
(Director)
Daisy Bell
(Director)
Dixie
(Director)
Ko-Ko's Crib
(Director)
Ça cartoon : Spécial Popeye
(Animation Director)