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