Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer is known for Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Gulliver's Travels (1939), Superman (1941).
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.
Questions about Dave Fleischer
How many Dave Fleischer films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 72 films with Dave Fleischer, from 1922 to 2024.
What is the best rated Dave Fleischer film?
The best rated Dave Fleischer film in the catalogue is Superman (1941), rated 6.9.
What was the first Dave Fleischer film?
The first Dave Fleischer film in the catalogue is Bimbo's Initiation, from 1931.
Who has Dave Fleischer worked with the most?
In the catalogue, Dave Fleischer shares the most credits with Max Fleischer (11 films), Bud Collyer (6 films) and Jackson Beck (6 films).
People data: TMDb.
- Awards
- Winsor McCay Award (1972)
- Nominations
- Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film (1944)
Known for
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8.0 Granite Hotel
1940
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6.2 Gulliver's Travels
1939
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6.9 Popeye the Sailor
1933
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7.0 The Mechanical Monsters
1941
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6.9 Superman
1941
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6.6 Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936
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6.8 Snow-White
1933
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8.1 Swing Cleaning
1941
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6.3 Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
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6.4 Poor Cinderella
1934
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7.0 Bimbo's Initiation
1931
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The Hypnotist
1922
Trivia
- Also works as
- screenwriter · film producer · film director · animator
- Siblings
- Max Fleischer
Trivia from Wikidata, licensed CC0.
Full filmography
77 films — 72 in the catalogue
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7.0 Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story
2008 · Himself (archive footage)
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8.0 Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
1995 · Self (archive footage)
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7.0 Ko-Ko's Conquest
1929 · Himself
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10.0
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
1929
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9.0 Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
1928 · Second Cartoonist (uncredited)
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6.6 The Ouija Board
1920
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6.2
Gulliver's Travels
1939
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6.9
Popeye the Sailor
1933
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6.3
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941
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8.1
Swing Cleaning
1941
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5.7 Song Shopping
1933
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5.3 Time on My Hands
1932
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The Hypnotist
1922
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7.0
The Mechanical Monsters
1941
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8.0
Granite Hotel
1940
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6.7 Sally Swing
1938
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4.0 Sing, Babies, Sing!
1933
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4.5 You Try Somebody Else
1932
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5.6
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1932
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6.8 Gabby Goes Fishing
1941
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5.1 You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
1940
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5.4 Me Feelins is Hurt
1940
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6.7 The Old Man of the Mountain
1933
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6.8
Snow-White
1933
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6.4 I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932
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6.6 Minnie the Moocher
1932
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6.5 Electric Earthquake
1942
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5.5 Big Bad Sindbad
1952
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6.5 Terror on the Midway
1942
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6.9 Volcano
1942
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6.9 The Magnetic Telescope
1942
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6.5 The Bulleteers
1942
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6.9 The Arctic Giant
1942
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7.0 Billion Dollar Limited
1942
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6.9
Superman
1941
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6.3 Poopdeck Pappy
1940
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7.1 Ants in the Plants
1940
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5.5 Rhythm on the Reservation
1939
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7.1 Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1939
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6.1 A Date to Skate
1938
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7.0 Goonland
1938
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6.1 Hunky and Spunky
1938
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7.5 Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937
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6.5 I Never Changes My Altitude
1937
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6.9 Hospitaliky
1937
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6.8 The Paneless Window Washer
1937
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6.1 I'm in the Army Now
1936
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7.1 Christmas Comes But Once a Year
1936
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6.6
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936
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7.0 The Spinach Roadster
1936
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7.0 Little Swee'pea
1936
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7.5 Never Kick a Woman
1936
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7.0 I Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936
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6.9 The Cobweb Hotel
1936
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5.0 No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
1935
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6.4
Poor Cinderella
1934
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6.9 Betty Boop's Penthouse
1933
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5.5 Out of the Inkwell
1938
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6.8 Betty Boop and Grampy
1935
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5.8 Swat the Fly
1935
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4.7 Stop That Noise
1935
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6.2 Be Kind to 'Aminals'
1935
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6.9 Beware of Barnacle Bill
1935
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5.7 Baby Be Good
1935
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6.8 A Dream Walking
1934
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7.2 Can You Take It
1934
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6.1 Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934
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6.2 Ha! Ha! Ha!
1934
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6.9 I Heard
1933
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6.4 Betty Boop for President
1932
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5.8 Stopping the Show
1932
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6.5 Chess-Nuts
1932
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6.2 Crazy-Town
1932
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5.6 Minding the Baby
1931
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7.0
Bimbo's Initiation
1931
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5.7 Silly Scandals
1931
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10.0
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
2024
People data: TMDb.
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