Tissa David
Born: 1921-01-05 in Cluj, Cluj, Romania
Died: 2012-08-21
Known For: Visual Effects
Biography
Thérèse "Tissa" David was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years. She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators. Millimeter magazine described her as "one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated cartoon field" and "one of the world's best and busiest" animators in a story published in 1975. In 1953, David directed Bonjour Paris [fr], becoming the second female animator to direct an animated feature film. David later became one of the first women to create and animate a major character in a film when she designed Raggedy Ann for the 1977 film, 'Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'.
Filmography
1991
- Ira Sleeps Over ... (Storyboard)
1988
- Abel's Island ... (Animation)
1986
- The Cosmic Eye ... (Animation)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream ... (Director)
1984
- The Soldier's Tale ... (Animation)
1978
- A Doonesbury Special ... (Animation)
1977
- Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure ... (Animation)