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Max Fleischer BIOGRAPHY
1883 Krakau, Poland - 1972 Los Angeles, California. Known for: Illustration, animation, cartooning, magazine art editor.
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936),... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Educated Fish (1937), Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Superman (1941). The son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor (sources conflict on whether he was born in Vienna or Krakow, Poland), he was brought to the United States at age four and raised in Manhattan and... Read full biography
Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture. Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Educated Fish (1937), Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Superman (1941). The son of an Austrian-Jewish tailor (sources conflict on whether he was born in Vienna or Krakow, Poland), he was brought to the United States at age four and raised in Manhattan and Brooklyn, New York. He studied to be a mechanic before becoming a cartoonist for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle and then ar... Read full biography
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Motion Picture Producer, Inventor. Co-founder (with his brother Dave) of the Fleischer Studios, Max Fleischer was a leading producer of animated cartoons in the years between the World Wars. Their star characters Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor made them Walt Disney's strongest competitor in the 1930s and had a lasting effect on American popular culture.
Four of their films were nominated for Academy Awards in the short subject category: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936), Educated Fish (1937), Hunky and Spunky (1938), and Superman (1941).
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