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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)

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

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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

1933

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

1932

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

1931

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

1930

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

1929

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

1928

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

1927

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

1926

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

1925

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

1924

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

1923

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

1922

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

1921

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

1920

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