Max Fleischer
Born: 1883-07-19 in Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]
Died: 1972-09-11
Known For: Production
Biography
Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope. (Wikipedia)
Filmography
2024
- Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer ... (Producer)
2015
- Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons ... (Director)
2014
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3 ... (Producer)
2013
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2 ... (Producer)
2009
- Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942 ... (Director)
2008
- Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story as Himself (archive footage)
2004
- Johnny Legend Presents: The Complete Weird Cartoons ... (Animation)
1995
- Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
1992
- Cartoon Madness: The Fantastic Max Fleischer Cartoons as Self (archive footage)
1973
- Betty Boop Scandals of 1974 ... (Director)
1963
- The Sleeping Beauty ... (Director)
1957
- The Big Fun Carnival ... (Producer)
1949
- Popeye's Premiere ... (Producer)
1948
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ... (Director)
1945
- News Sketches ... (Director)
1942
- The Arctic Giant ... (Producer)
- Terror on the Midway ... (Producer)
- Billion Dollar Limited ... (Producer)
- Many Tanks ... (Producer)
- Electric Earthquake ... (Producer)
- The Magnetic Telescope ... (Producer)
- Blunder Below ... (Producer)
- The Bulleteers ... (Producer)
- Volcano ... (Producer)
- Kickin' the Conga Round ... (Producer)
- Baby Wants a Bottleship ... (Producer)
- Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix ... (Producer)
1941
- Superman ... (Producer)
- The Mechanical Monsters ... (Producer)
- Pest Pilot ... (Producer)
- Swing Cleaning ... (Producer)
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town ... (Producer)
- Problem Pappy ... (Producer)
- Gabby Goes Fishing ... (Producer)
- Zero the Hound ... (Producer)
- Olive's Boithday Presink ... (Producer)
- Flies Ain't Human ... (Producer)
- Quiet! Pleeze ... (Producer)
- I'll Never Crow Again ... (Producer)
- The Mighty Navy ... (Producer)
- Olive's $weep$take Ticket ... (Producer)
- Nix on Hypnotricks ... (Producer)
- It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day ... (Producer)
- Two for the Zoo ... (Producer)
- Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle ... (Producer)
- Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy ... (Producer)
1940
- Snubbed by a Snob ... (Producer)
- My Pop, My Pop ... (Producer)
- Poopdeck Pappy ... (Producer)
- Shakespearian Spinach ... (Producer)
- Onion Pacific ... (Producer)
- Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive ... (Producer)
- Me Feelins is Hurt ... (Producer)
- Females Is Fickle ... (Producer)
- Stealin Aint Honest ... (Producer)
- Doing Impossikible Stunts ... (Producer)
- The Ugly Dino ... (Producer)
- Sneak, Snoop and Snitch ... (Producer)
- Popeye Meets William Tell ... (Producer)
- Pedagogical Institution (College to You) ... (Producer)
- Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points ... (Producer)
1939
- Gulliver's Travels ... (Producer)
- Never Sock a Baby ... (Producer)
- Wotta Nitemare ... (Producer)
- My Friend the Monkey ... (Producer)
- Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ... (Producer)
- The Fresh Vegetable Mystery ... (Producer)
- Hello How Am I ... (Producer)
- Ghosks Is the Bunk ... (Producer)
- Leave Well Enough Alone ... (Producer)
- The Princess and the Pauper ... (Director)
- It's the Natural Thing to Do ... (Producer)
1938
- Hold It! ... (Producer)
- Let's Celebrake ... (Producer)
- Learn Polikeness ... (Producer)
- The Jeep ... (Producer)
- I Yam Love Sick ... (Producer)
- A Date to Skate ... (Producer)
- Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh ... (Producer)
- The House Builder-Upper ... (Producer)
- All's Fair at the Fair ... (Producer)
- Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' ... (Producer)
- Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes as Self
1937
- Peeping Penguins ... (Producer)
- Fowl Play ... (Producer)
- Bunny Mooning ... (Producer)
- I Likes Babies and Infinks ... (Producer)
- Hospitaliky ... (Producer)
- The Paneless Window Washer ... (Producer)
- House Cleaning Blues ... (Producer)
- Morning, Noon and Night Club ... (Producer)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves ... (Producer)
- The Hot Air Salesman ... (Producer)
- Organ Grinder's Swing ... (Producer)
- The Football Toucher Downer ... (Producer)
- The Impractical Joker ... (Producer)
- Lost and Foundry ... (Producer)
- I Never Changes My Altitude ... (Producer)
- A Car-Tune Portrait ... (Producer)
- The Candid Candidate ... (Producer)
- A Ride for Cinderella ... (Writer)
- The Twisker Pitcher ... (Producer)
1936
- The Spinach Roadster ... (Producer)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor ... (Producer)
- Bridge Ahoy! ... (Producer)
- Training Pigeons ... (Producer)
- Never Kick a Woman ... (Producer)
- I'm in the Army Now ... (Producer)
- Play Safe ... (Producer)
- I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski ... (Producer)
- Christmas Comes But Once a Year ... (Producer)
- Let's Get Movin' ... (Producer)
- I Wanna Be a Life Guard ... (Producer)
- Be Human ... (Producer)
- You're Not Built That Way ... (Producer)
- Making Friends ... (Producer)
- Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky ... (Producer)
- We Did It ... (Producer)
- Hold the Wire ... (Producer)
- What -- No Spinach? ... (Producer)
- More Pep as Uncle Max (voice)
- Little Swee'pea ... (Producer)
- Grampy's Indoor Outing ... (Producer)
- Somewhere in Dreamland ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop and the Little King ... (Producer)
- The Cobweb Hotel ... (Producer)
1935
- Dizzy Divers ... (Producer)
- Little Nobody ... (Producer)
- You Gotta Be a Football Hero ... (Producer)
- King of the Mardi Gras ... (Producer)
- Dancing on the Moon ... (Producer)
- A Language All My Own ... (Producer)
- Beware of Barnacle Bill ... (Producer)
- The Hyp-Nut-Tist ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop and Grampy ... (Producer)
- The Spinach Overture ... (Producer)
- Time for Love ... (Producer)
- Choose Your 'Weppins' ... (Producer)
- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! ... (Producer)
- Musical Memories ... (Producer)
- Pleased to Meet Cha! ... (Producer)
- Baby Be Good ... (Producer)
- Be Kind to 'Aminals' ... (Producer)
- Taking the Blame ... (Producer)
- An Elephant Never Forgets ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American ... (Producer)
- Making Stars ... (Producer)
- Judge for a Day ... (Producer)
- A Little Soap and Water ... (Producer)
1934
- A Dream Walking ... (Producer)
- Betty in Blunderland ... (Producer)
- Shiver Me Timbers! ... (Producer)
- Let's You and Him Fight ... (Producer)
- Shoein' Hosses ... (Producer)
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze ... (Producer)
- The Dance Contest ... (Producer)
- Red Hot Mamma ... (Producer)
- She Wronged Him Right ... (Producer)
- We Aim to Please ... (Producer)
- The Two-Alarm Fire ... (Producer)
- Axe Me Another ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Little Pal ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Max Fleischer
- Ha! Ha! Ha! ... (Producer)
- Strong to the Finich ... (Producer)
1933
- Popeye the Sailor ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Birthday Party ... (Producer)
- Boilesk ... (Producer)
- Sing, Sisters, Sing! ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions ... (Producer)
- Seasin's Greetinks! ... (Writer)
- Wild Elephinks ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's May Party ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party ... (Producer)
- I Heard ... (Producer)
- I Yam What I Yam ... (Producer)
- Is My Palm Read ... (Producer)
- I Eats My Spinach ... (Producer)
- Ain't She Sweet ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Ker-Choo ... (Producer)
1932
- Boop-Oop-A-Doop ... (Producer)
- The Betty Boop Limited ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle ... (Producer)
- Minnie the Moocher ... (Producer)
- Chess-Nuts ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Museum ... (Producer)
- Just a Gigolo as Presenter
- S.O.S. ... (Producer)
- Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie ... (Producer)
1931
- In the Shade of the Old Applesauce ... (Producer)
- Kitty from Kansas City ... (Producer)
- Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean ... (Producer)
- Bimbo's Initiation ... (Producer)
- Bimbo's Express ... (Producer)
- Hurry Doctor! ... (Director)
- In My Merry Oldsmobile ... (Producer)
- Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep ... (Producer)
- The Herring Murder Case ... (Producer)
- Minding the Baby ... (Producer)
1930
- Dizzy Dishes ... (Producer)
- Swing You Sinners! ... (Producer)
- Accordion Joe ... (Producer)
- A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight ... (Producer)
- I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark ... (Producer)
1929
- Finding His Voice ... (Director)
- Ko-Ko Beats Time as Max Fleischer
- Dixie ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Hypnotism ... (Producer)
- Noise Annoys Ko-Ko ... (Producer)
- The Sidewalks of New York ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Conquest ... (Producer)
- Noah's Lark ... (Producer)
- Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure ... (Animation)
1928
- KoKo Lamps Aladdin ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Hot Dog as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Koko's Field Daze
- Inklings No. 10 ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Tattoo
- Ko-Ko's Haunted House
- KoKo's Earth Control ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
1927
- KoKo's Klock as Max Fleischer
- Koko Needles the Boss as Max Fleischer
- Now You're Talking ... (Scenario Writer)
- Inklings, Issue ?? ... (Producer)
- Koko Chops Suey ... (Producer)
- Koko Back Tracks as Max Fleischer
- Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh as Cartoonist
- Inklings, Issue Unknown ... (Producer)
- KoKo the Kop as Max Fleischer
1926
- Koko Gets Egg-Cited as Cartoonist
- Toot Toot Tootsie ... (Writer)
- Sweet Adeline ... (Producer)
- Fadeaway as Max Fleischer
- Koko Kidnapped
- It's the Cat's ... (Director)
- Koko's Paradise as Max Fleischer
- Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? ... (Director)
- Koko Hot After It as himself
- My Old Kentucky Home ... (Producer)
- Koko the Convict as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 5 ... (Director)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 15 ... (Director)
- Ko-Ko at the Circus as Max
- Koko's Toot Toot as Max Fleischer
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching) ... (Producer)
- 'Morning, Judge ... (Producer)
1925
- Koko in Toyland as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Koko Eats
- Koko Nuts as Himself
- Ko-Ko the Barber as Max Fleischer
- Big Chief Koko as Max Fleischer
- Thanksgiving
- Ko-Ko on the Run as himself
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Koko the Hot Shot as Max Fleischer
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Koko Packs 'Em as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 3 ... (Director)
- Koko Trains 'Em as Max Fleischer
- Lunch on a Cart ... (Director)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 4 ... (Director)
- Koko Celebrates the Fourth as Cartoonist (uncredited)
1924
- Vaudeville ... (Producer)
- Trip to Mars as Max Fleischer - Animator
- Mother Gooseland as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- The Cure as Max Fleischer
- Sparring Partner ... (Producer)
- Masquerade ... (Producer)
- Vacation as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- The Storm as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Clay Town ... (Director)
- Cartoon Factory as Various
- Come Take a Trip in My Airship ... (Producer)
- The Runaway ... (Producer)
- The Laundry ... (Writer)
- League of Nations ... (Producer)
- Koko's Big Catch
- Proxy Lover: A Fable of the Future ... (Director)
1923
- False Alarm as Max Fleischer
- The Battle ... (Writer)
- Contest ... (Producer)
- Surprise as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Shadows
- The Puzzle as Max Fleischer
- Bed Time as Himself
- Evolution ... (Director)
- Adventures in the Far North ... (Editor)
- Trapped as Max Fleischer
- Balloons as Max Fleischer
- The Fortune Teller as Cartoonist
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity ... (Producer)
1922
- Birthday as Max Fleischer
- The Hypnotist ... (Producer)
- The Reunion as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- The Show ... (Producer)
- Bubbles as Max Fleischer
- Flies as Max Fleischer
- The Mosquito ... (Writer)
- Jumping Beans as Max Fleischer
- The Dresden Doll as Max Fleischer
- The Challenge ... (Producer)
1921
- Invisible Ink as Max Fleischer
- Fishing as Max Fleischer
- Modeling as Cartoonist
- Cartoonland ... (Writer)
- The Automobile Ride as himself
1920
- The Chinaman
- Hello, Mars ... (Director)
- The Restaurant as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- The Clown's Little Brother as Max Fleischer
- Perpetual Motion as Cartoonist
- The Ouija Board as Max Fleischer
- The Circus ... (Writer)
- The Boxing Kangaroo as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Through the Earth ... (Director)
- If We Lived on the Moon ... (Director)
- The Birth of the Earth ... (Director)
- All Aboard for the Moon ... (Director)
1919
- Out of the Inkwell as Cartoonist
- The Tantalizing Fly
- The Clown's Pup as Max Fleischer
- The Electric Bell ... (Director)
1918
- Experiment No. 1 ... (Director)
- The Eclipse of the Sun ... (Director)
1917
- The Submarine Mine Layer ... (Director)