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 2 ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1 ... (Producer)
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)
1988
- Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town 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
- Terror on the Midway ... (Producer)
- Blunder Below ... (Producer)
- The Arctic Giant ... (Producer)
- Billion Dollar Limited ... (Producer)
- Many Tanks ... (Producer)
- The Magnetic Telescope ... (Producer)
- Electric Earthquake ... (Producer)
- The Bulleteers ... (Producer)
- Kickin' the Conga Round ... (Producer)
- Volcano ... (Producer)
- Baby Wants a Bottleship ... (Producer)
- Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix ... (Producer)
1941
- Problem Pappy ... (Producer)
- Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942 ... (Director)
- Swing Cleaning ... (Producer)
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town ... (Producer)
- Superman ... (Producer)
- The Mechanical Monsters ... (Producer)
- Pest Pilot ... (Producer)
- Quiet! Pleeze ... (Producer)
- Olive's Boithday Presink ... (Producer)
- I'll Never Crow Again ... (Producer)
- Flies Ain't Human ... (Producer)
- It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day ... (Producer)
- Gabby Goes Fishing ... (Producer)
- The Mighty Navy ... (Producer)
- Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy ... (Producer)
- Olive's $weep$take Ticket ... (Producer)
- Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle ... (Producer)
- Two for the Zoo ... (Producer)
- Zero the Hound ... (Producer)
- Nix on Hypnotricks ... (Producer)
1940
- Poopdeck Pappy ... (Producer)
- Onion Pacific ... (Producer)
- Me Feelins is Hurt ... (Producer)
- Shakespearian Spinach ... (Producer)
- Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive ... (Producer)
- Snubbed by a Snob ... (Producer)
- Popeye Meets William Tell ... (Producer)
- Doing Impossikible Stunts ... (Producer)
- Females Is Fickle ... (Producer)
- My Pop, My Pop ... (Producer)
- Sneak, Snoop and Snitch ... (Producer)
- The Ugly Dino ... (Producer)
- Stealin Aint Honest ... (Producer)
- Pedagogical Institution (College to You) ... (Producer)
- Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points ... (Producer)
1939
- Gulliver's Travels ... (Producer)
- Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ... (Producer)
- Ghosks Is the Bunk ... (Producer)
- The Fresh Vegetable Mystery ... (Producer)
- Hello How Am I ... (Producer)
- Wotta Nitemare ... (Producer)
- My Friend the Monkey ... (Producer)
- Never Sock a Baby ... (Producer)
- Leave Well Enough Alone ... (Producer)
- It's the Natural Thing to Do ... (Producer)
- The Princess and the Pauper ... (Director)
1938
- Hold It! ... (Producer)
- The Jeep ... (Producer)
- Learn Polikeness ... (Producer)
- I Yam Love Sick ... (Producer)
- Let's Celebrake ... (Producer)
- Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' ... (Producer)
- All's Fair at the Fair ... (Producer)
- The House Builder-Upper ... (Producer)
- Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh ... (Producer)
- A Date to Skate ... (Producer)
- Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes as Self
1937
- Peeping Penguins ... (Producer)
- Fowl Play ... (Producer)
- Bunny Mooning ... (Producer)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves ... (Producer)
- Organ Grinder's Swing ... (Producer)
- Morning, Noon and Night Club ... (Producer)
- I Never Changes My Altitude ... (Producer)
- I Likes Babies and Infinks ... (Producer)
- Hospitaliky ... (Producer)
- A Car-Tune Portrait ... (Producer)
- The Football Toucher Downer ... (Producer)
- The Paneless Window Washer ... (Producer)
- The Hot Air Salesman ... (Producer)
- House Cleaning Blues ... (Producer)
- Lost and Foundry ... (Producer)
- The Candid Candidate ... (Producer)
- A Ride for Cinderella ... (Writer)
- The Twisker Pitcher ... (Producer)
- The Impractical Joker ... (Producer)
1936
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor ... (Producer)
- Play Safe ... (Producer)
- Christmas Comes But Once a Year ... (Producer)
- Let's Get Movin' ... (Producer)
- Be Human ... (Producer)
- I Wanna Be a Life Guard ... (Producer)
- Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky ... (Producer)
- I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski ... (Producer)
- You're Not Built That Way ... (Producer)
- I'm in the Army Now ... (Producer)
- Never Kick a Woman ... (Producer)
- Bridge Ahoy! ... (Producer)
- More Pep as Uncle Max (voice)
- The Spinach Roadster ... (Producer)
- Grampy's Indoor Outing ... (Producer)
- Training Pigeons ... (Producer)
- Making Friends ... (Producer)
- Somewhere in Dreamland ... (Producer)
- Little Swee'pea ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop and the Little King ... (Producer)
- The Cobweb Hotel ... (Producer)
- Hold the Wire ... (Producer)
- What -- No Spinach? ... (Producer)
- We Did It ... (Producer)
1935
- Little Nobody ... (Producer)
- Dancing on the Moon ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop and Grampy ... (Producer)
- Dizzy Divers ... (Producer)
- Musical Memories ... (Producer)
- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! ... (Producer)
- King of the Mardi Gras ... (Producer)
- Baby Be Good ... (Producer)
- You Gotta Be a Football Hero ... (Producer)
- A Language All My Own ... (Producer)
- Pleased to Meet Cha! ... (Producer)
- Judge for a Day ... (Producer)
- Be Kind to 'Aminals' ... (Producer)
- Beware of Barnacle Bill ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American ... (Producer)
- Choose Your 'Weppins' ... (Producer)
- A Little Soap and Water ... (Producer)
- The Spinach Overture ... (Producer)
- The Hyp-Nut-Tist ... (Producer)
- An Elephant Never Forgets ... (Producer)
- Time for Love ... (Producer)
- Taking the Blame ... (Producer)
- Making Stars ... (Producer)
1934
- Let's You and Him Fight ... (Producer)
- We Aim to Please ... (Producer)
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze ... (Producer)
- She Wronged Him Right ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Little Pal ... (Producer)
- Betty in Blunderland ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Max Fleischer
- Strong to the Finich ... (Producer)
- The Two-Alarm Fire ... (Producer)
- Shiver Me Timbers! ... (Producer)
- A Dream Walking ... (Producer)
- The Dance Contest ... (Producer)
- Red Hot Mamma ... (Producer)
- Ha! Ha! Ha! ... (Producer)
- Axe Me Another ... (Producer)
- Shoein' Hosses ... (Producer)
1933
- Popeye the Sailor ... (Producer)
- Popeye the Sailor ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions ... (Producer)
- I Yam What I Yam ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Birthday Party ... (Producer)
- Is My Palm Read ... (Producer)
- Boilesk ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's May Party ... (Producer)
- Ain't She Sweet ... (Producer)
- Seasin's Greetinks! ... (Writer)
- Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party ... (Producer)
- I Heard ... (Producer)
- I Eats My Spinach ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Ker-Choo ... (Producer)
- Wild Elephinks ... (Producer)
- Sing, Sisters, Sing! ... (Producer)
1932
- Boop-Oop-A-Doop ... (Producer)
- Chess-Nuts ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle ... (Producer)
- Betty Boop's Museum ... (Producer)
- The Betty Boop Limited ... (Producer)
- Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie ... (Producer)
- Minnie the Moocher ... (Producer)
- Just a Gigolo as Presenter
- S.O.S. ... (Producer)
1931
- Kitty from Kansas City ... (Producer)
- Bimbo's Initiation ... (Producer)
- Hurry Doctor! ... (Director)
- In the Shade of the Old Applesauce ... (Producer)
- In My Merry Oldsmobile ... (Producer)
- Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean ... (Producer)
- Bimbo's Express ... (Producer)
- Minding the Baby ... (Producer)
- The Herring Murder Case ... (Producer)
- Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep ... (Producer)
1930
- Dizzy Dishes ... (Producer)
- Swing You Sinners! ... (Producer)
- I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark ... (Producer)
- A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight ... (Producer)
- Accordion Joe ... (Producer)
1929
- Dixie ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Conquest ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko Beats Time as Max Fleischer
- Noise Annoys Ko-Ko ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko's Hypnotism ... (Producer)
- Finding His Voice ... (Director)
- The Sidewalks of New York ... (Producer)
- Noah's Lark ... (Producer)
- Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure ... (Animation)
1928
- Ko-Ko's Haunted House
- Ko-Ko's Tattoo
- Ko-Ko's Hot Dog as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
- Koko's Field Daze
- KoKo Lamps Aladdin ... (Producer)
- KoKo's Earth Control ... (Producer)
- Inklings No. 10 ... (Producer)
1927
- Now You're Talking ... (Scenario Writer)
- KoKo's Klock as Max Fleischer
- Koko Needles the Boss as Max Fleischer
- Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh as Cartoonist
- Inklings, Issue ?? ... (Producer)
- KoKo the Kop as Max Fleischer
- Inklings, Issue Unknown ... (Producer)
- Koko Chops Suey ... (Producer)
- Koko Back Tracks as Max Fleischer
1926
- Koko Kidnapped
- Sweet Adeline ... (Producer)
- Koko Gets Egg-Cited as Cartoonist
- Fadeaway as Max Fleischer
- My Old Kentucky Home ... (Producer)
- Ko-Ko at the Circus as Max
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 15 ... (Director)
- Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? ... (Director)
- Koko's Toot Toot as Max Fleischer
- It's the Cat's ... (Director)
- Koko's Paradise as Max Fleischer
- Koko Hot After It as himself
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 5 ... (Director)
- Toot Toot Tootsie ... (Writer)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching) ... (Producer)
- 'Morning, Judge ... (Producer)
- Koko the Convict as Cartoonist (uncredited)
1925
- Koko Eats
- Koko Nuts as Himself
- Ko-Ko the Barber as Max Fleischer
- Koko in Toyland as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Thanksgiving
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 2 ... (Director)
- Ko-Ko on the Run as himself
- Koko the Hot Shot as Max Fleischer
- Lunch on a Cart ... (Director)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 3 ... (Director)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 1 ... (Director)
- Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 4 ... (Director)
- Koko Packs 'Em as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Big Chief Koko as Max Fleischer
- Koko Trains 'Em as Max Fleischer
- Koko Celebrates the Fourth as Cartoonist (uncredited)
1924
- Cartoon Factory as Various
- Clay Town ... (Director)
- Sparring Partner ... (Producer)
- The Storm as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Vaudeville ... (Producer)
- The Cure as Max Fleischer
- Mother Gooseland as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- The Runaway ... (Producer)
- Vacation as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Masquerade ... (Producer)
- The Laundry ... (Writer)
- Proxy Lover: A Fable of the Future ... (Director)
- Come Take a Trip in My Airship ... (Producer)
- Koko's Big Catch
- Trip to Mars as Max Fleischer - Animator
- League of Nations ... (Producer)
1923
- False Alarm as Max Fleischer
- Evolution ... (Director)
- Contest ... (Producer)
- The Puzzle as Max Fleischer
- Surprise as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Balloons as Max Fleischer
- Trapped as Max Fleischer
- The Battle ... (Writer)
- Bed Time as Himself
- Shadows
- Adventures in the Far North ... (Editor)
- The Fortune Teller as Cartoonist
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity ... (Producer)
1922
- The Mosquito ... (Writer)
- The Reunion as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- Flies as Max Fleischer
- Jumping Beans as Max Fleischer
- Birthday as Max Fleischer
- Bubbles as Max Fleischer
- The Hypnotist ... (Producer)
- The Show ... (Producer)
- The Challenge ... (Producer)
- The Dresden Doll as Max Fleischer
1921
- Fishing as Max Fleischer
- Modeling as Cartoonist
- Invisible Ink as Max Fleischer
- Cartoonland ... (Writer)
- The Automobile Ride as himself
1920
- Perpetual Motion as Cartoonist
- Hello, Mars ... (Director)
- The Circus ... (Writer)
- The Clown's Little Brother as Max Fleischer
- The Chinaman
- The Restaurant as Cartoonist (uncredited)
- If We Lived on the Moon ... (Director)
- The Birth of the Earth ... (Director)
- The Ouija Board as Max Fleischer
- All Aboard for the Moon ... (Director)
- Through the Earth ... (Director)
- The Boxing Kangaroo as Cartoonist (uncredited)
1919
- Out of the Inkwell as Cartoonist
- The Clown's Pup as Max Fleischer
- The Electric Bell ... (Director)
- The Tantalizing Fly
1918
- The Eclipse of the Sun ... (Director)
- Experiment No. 1 ... (Director)
1917
- The Submarine Mine Layer ... (Director)