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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)

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)

1957

The Big Fun Carnival ... (Producer)

1949

Popeye's Premiere ... (Producer)

1948

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ... (Director)

1945

News Sketches ... (Director)

1942

Billion Dollar Limited ... (Producer)
The Bulleteers ... (Producer)
Electric Earthquake ... (Producer)
Volcano ... (Producer)
The Arctic Giant ... (Producer)
Terror on the Midway ... (Producer)
The Magnetic Telescope ... (Producer)
Many Tanks ... (Producer)
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix ... (Producer)
Baby Wants a Bottleship ... (Producer)
Blunder Below ... (Producer)
Kickin' the Conga Round ... (Producer)

1941

Superman ... (Producer)
Nix on Hypnotricks ... (Producer)
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle ... (Producer)
Olive's $weep$take Ticket ... (Producer)
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy ... (Producer)
Mr. Bug Goes to Town ... (Producer)
Swing Cleaning ... (Producer)
The Mechanical Monsters ... (Producer)
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day ... (Producer)
Zero the Hound ... (Producer)
I'll Never Crow Again ... (Producer)
Two for the Zoo ... (Producer)
Gabby Goes Fishing ... (Producer)
The Mighty Navy ... (Producer)
Problem Pappy ... (Producer)
Pest Pilot ... (Producer)
Olive's Boithday Presink ... (Producer)
Quiet! Pleeze ... (Producer)
Flies Ain't Human ... (Producer)

1940

Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points ... (Producer)
Shakespearian Spinach ... (Producer)
Popeye Meets William Tell ... (Producer)
Onion Pacific ... (Producer)
Me Feelins is Hurt ... (Producer)
Stealin Aint Honest ... (Producer)
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive ... (Producer)
Doing Impossikible Stunts ... (Producer)
Poopdeck Pappy ... (Producer)
Females Is Fickle ... (Producer)
My Pop, My Pop ... (Producer)
Snubbed by a Snob ... (Producer)
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch ... (Producer)
Pedagogical Institution (College to You) ... (Producer)
The Ugly Dino ... (Producer)

1939

Gulliver's Travels ... (Producer)
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp ... (Producer)
Leave Well Enough Alone ... (Producer)
It's the Natural Thing to Do ... (Producer)
Wotta Nitemare ... (Producer)
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery ... (Producer)
Ghosks Is the Bunk ... (Producer)
My Friend the Monkey ... (Producer)
Never Sock a Baby ... (Producer)
Hello How Am I ... (Producer)
The Princess and the Pauper ... (Director)

1938

All's Fair at the Fair ... (Producer)
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe' ... (Producer)
The House Builder-Upper ... (Producer)
Let's Celebrake ... (Producer)
The Jeep ... (Producer)
A Date to Skate ... (Producer)
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh ... (Producer)
Fleischer Studios Behind The Scenes as Self
Hold It! ... (Producer)
Learn Polikeness ... (Producer)
I Yam Love Sick ... (Producer)

1937

Bunny Mooning ... (Producer)
Peeping Penguins ... (Producer)
Lost and Foundry ... (Producer)
The Twisker Pitcher ... (Producer)
The Football Toucher Downer ... (Producer)
Hospitaliky ... (Producer)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves ... (Producer)
I Likes Babies and Infinks ... (Producer)
A Car-Tune Portrait ... (Producer)
The Paneless Window Washer ... (Producer)
Morning, Noon and Night Club ... (Producer)
Fowl Play ... (Producer)
The Impractical Joker ... (Producer)
House Cleaning Blues ... (Producer)
The Candid Candidate ... (Producer)
I Never Changes My Altitude ... (Producer)
Organ Grinder's Swing ... (Producer)
The Hot Air Salesman ... (Producer)
A Ride for Cinderella ... (Writer)

1936

The Cobweb Hotel ... (Producer)
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor ... (Producer)
Bridge Ahoy! ... (Producer)
Somewhere in Dreamland ... (Producer)
Christmas Comes But Once a Year ... (Producer)
Little Swee'pea ... (Producer)
Hold the Wire ... (Producer)
Play Safe ... (Producer)
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky ... (Producer)
What -- No Spinach? ... (Producer)
Never Kick a Woman ... (Producer)
Betty Boop and the Little King ... (Producer)
I'm in the Army Now ... (Producer)
Let's Get Movin' ... (Producer)
I Wanna Be a Life Guard ... (Producer)
Grampy's Indoor Outing ... (Producer)
Be Human ... (Producer)
You're Not Built That Way ... (Producer)
We Did It ... (Producer)
The Spinach Roadster ... (Producer)
More Pep as Uncle Max (voice)
Making Friends ... (Producer)
Training Pigeons ... (Producer)
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski ... (Producer)

1935

Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American ... (Producer)
Judge for a Day ... (Producer)
Beware of Barnacle Bill ... (Producer)
Taking the Blame ... (Producer)
Dizzy Divers ... (Producer)
Making Stars ... (Producer)
King of the Mardi Gras ... (Producer)
An Elephant Never Forgets ... (Producer)
The Hyp-Nut-Tist ... (Producer)
The Spinach Overture ... (Producer)
Dancing on the Moon ... (Producer)
Be Kind to 'Aminals' ... (Producer)
Choose Your 'Weppins' ... (Producer)
No! No! A Thousand Times No!! ... (Producer)
A Little Soap and Water ... (Producer)
Time for Love ... (Producer)
Little Nobody ... (Producer)
Baby Be Good ... (Producer)
A Language All My Own ... (Producer)
Betty Boop and Grampy ... (Producer)
You Gotta Be a Football Hero ... (Producer)
Pleased to Meet Cha! ... (Producer)
Musical Memories ... (Producer)

1934

Strong to the Finich ... (Producer)
Shoein' Hosses ... (Producer)
Ha! Ha! Ha! ... (Producer)
The Two-Alarm Fire ... (Producer)
Axe Me Another ... (Producer)
Let's You and Him Fight ... (Producer)
Betty in Blunderland ... (Producer)
Red Hot Mamma ... (Producer)
The Man on the Flying Trapeze ... (Producer)
The Dance Contest ... (Producer)
We Aim to Please ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Little Pal ... (Producer)
Shiver Me Timbers! ... (Producer)
She Wronged Him Right ... (Producer)
A Dream Walking ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame as Max Fleischer

1933

Is My Palm Read ... (Producer)
Wild Elephinks ... (Producer)
Popeye the Sailor ... (Producer)
Boilesk ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Birthday Party ... (Producer)
I Eats My Spinach ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party ... (Producer)
Seasin's Greetinks! ... (Writer)
Betty Boop's May Party ... (Producer)
Ain't She Sweet ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions ... (Producer)
Sing, Sisters, Sing! ... (Producer)
I Heard ... (Producer)

1932

Minnie the Moocher ... (Producer)
Boop-Oop-A-Doop ... (Producer)
S.O.S. ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Museum ... (Producer)
The Betty Boop Limited ... (Producer)
Chess-Nuts ... (Producer)
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle ... (Producer)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie ... (Producer)
Just a Gigolo as Presenter

1931

Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep ... (Producer)
Minding the Baby ... (Producer)
The Herring Murder Case ... (Producer)
In the Shade of the Old Applesauce ... (Producer)
Kitty from Kansas City ... (Producer)
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean ... (Producer)
Bimbo's Initiation ... (Producer)
In My Merry Oldsmobile ... (Producer)
Hurry Doctor! ... (Director)
Bimbo's Express ... (Producer)

1930

A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight ... (Producer)
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark ... (Producer)
Swing You Sinners! ... (Producer)
Accordion Joe ... (Producer)

1929

Noah's Lark ... (Producer)
Finding His Voice ... (Director)
Ko-Ko's Conquest ... (Producer)
Ko-Ko's Hypnotism ... (Producer)
Dixie ... (Producer)
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko ... (Producer)
The Sidewalks of New York ... (Producer)
Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem ... (Producer)
Eveready Harton in Buried Treasure ... (Animation)

1928

KoKo's Earth Control ... (Producer)
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Inklings No. 10 ... (Producer)
KoKo Lamps Aladdin ... (Producer)
Koko's Field Daze
Ko-Ko's Haunted House
Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Ko-Ko's Germ Jam

1927

KoKo's Klock as Max Fleischer
Now You're Talking ... (Scenario Writer)
Koko Needles the Boss as Max Fleischer
Inklings, Issue ?? ... (Producer)
KoKo the Kop as Max Fleischer
Inklings, Issue Unknown ... (Producer)
Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh as Cartoonist
Koko Back Tracks as Max Fleischer
Koko Chops Suey ... (Producer)

1926

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching) ... (Producer)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 5 ... (Director)
Koko Gets Egg-Cited as Cartoonist
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 15 ... (Director)
Ko-Ko at the Circus as Max
Koko Hot After It as himself
Koko's Toot Toot as Max Fleischer
My Old Kentucky Home ... (Producer)
'Morning, Judge ... (Producer)
Sweet Adeline ... (Producer)
Koko's Paradise as Max Fleischer
Koko the Convict as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Fadeaway as Max Fleischer
Has Anyone Here Seen Kelly? ... (Director)
It's the Cat's ... (Director)
Koko Kidnapped
Toot Toot Tootsie ... (Writer)

1925

Koko Celebrates the Fourth as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 3 ... (Director)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 4 ... (Director)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 1 ... (Director)
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 2 ... (Director)
Thanksgiving
Koko Packs 'Em as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Big Chief Koko as Max Fleischer
Koko in Toyland as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Ko-Ko the Barber as Max Fleischer
Koko Nuts as Himself
Koko the Hot Shot as Max Fleischer
Koko Eats
Ko-Ko on the Run as himself
Lunch on a Cart ... (Director)
Koko Trains 'Em as Max Fleischer

1924

The Storm as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Trip to Mars as Max Fleischer - Animator
Vaudeville ... (Producer)
Clay Town ... (Director)
The Cure as Max Fleischer
The Laundry ... (Writer)
The Runaway ... (Producer)
Vacation as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Masquerade ... (Producer)
Sparring Partner ... (Producer)
League of Nations ... (Producer)
Koko's Big Catch
Cartoon Factory as Various
Come Take a Trip in My Airship ... (Producer)
Proxy Lover: A Fable of the Future ... (Director)

1923

The Einstein Theory of Relativity ... (Producer)
False Alarm as Max Fleischer
Bed Time as Himself
The Puzzle as Max Fleischer
Trapped as Max Fleischer
Surprise as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Adventures in the Far North ... (Editor)
Shadows
Evolution ... (Director)
Balloons as Max Fleischer
Contest ... (Producer)
The Fortune Teller as Cartoonist
The Battle ... (Writer)

1922

Bubbles as Max Fleischer
Jumping Beans as Max Fleischer
The Dresden Doll as Max Fleischer
The Show ... (Producer)
The Reunion as Cartoonist (uncredited)
The Challenge ... (Producer)
The Hypnotist ... (Producer)
Flies as Max Fleischer
Birthday as Max Fleischer
The Mosquito ... (Writer)

1921

Invisible Ink as Max Fleischer
Modeling as Cartoonist
Fishing as Max Fleischer
The Automobile Ride as himself
Cartoonland ... (Writer)

1920

The Chinaman
All Aboard for the Moon ... (Director)
Perpetual Motion as Cartoonist
The Clown's Little Brother as Max Fleischer
If We Lived on the Moon ... (Director)
The Ouija Board as Max Fleischer
The Circus ... (Writer)
The Restaurant as Cartoonist (uncredited)
The Boxing Kangaroo as Cartoonist (uncredited)
The Birth of the Earth ... (Director)
Through the Earth ... (Director)
Hello, Mars ... (Director)

1919

Out of the Inkwell as Cartoonist
The Electric Bell ... (Director)
The Clown's Pup as Max Fleischer
The Tantalizing Fly

1918

The Eclipse of the Sun ... (Director)
Experiment No. 1 ... (Director)

1917

The Submarine Mine Layer ... (Director)