
Dave Fleischer
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David "Dave" Fleischer (July 14, 1894 – June 25, 1979) was an American animator film director and film producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer. He was a native of New York City. Sometime around 1913-1914, Dave began working as a film cutter for the American branch of Pathé, the French company that was the world's largest film production and distribution company, and the largest manufacturer of film equipment, in the first decades of the 20th Century. Dave Fleischer was notable during the brothers' early days as the rotoscope model for their first character, Koko the Clown. He went on to become director and later producer of the studio's output. Although he is credited as "director" of every film released by the Fleischer studio from 1921 to 1942, the lead animators actually performed directorial duties, and Fleischer mainly served as producer. Among the cartoon series Fleischer supervised during this period were Talkartoons, Betty Boop Cartoons, Popeye the Sailor, Color Classics and several others; Popeye would go on to be the top rival of Mickey Mouse. He also supervised two animated features released through Paramount Pictures, Gulliver's Travels (1939) and Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941). The debt Fleischer Studios owed to Paramount for the budgets of those features, worsened by the lack of success that came from the studio's non-Popeye cartoons, was called in by Paramount; this forced the brothers to give the studio to Paramount on May 24, 1941. However, both were still able to remain in charge of Fleischer Studios for a time. Fleischer was asked by Paramount to put the popular comic book hero Superman into a cartoon series. The big-budget Superman series became the most successful cartoon of the late period of Fleischer Studios. However, relations between Dave and Max were deteriorating. The feud starting simmering after the married Dave began an adulterous affair with his Miami secretary in 1938, and was followed by more personal and professional disputes. In April 1942 Fleischer, no longer able to cooperate with his brother, left the company to become President of Screen Gems at Columbia Pictures, although he remained co-manager of Fleischer Studios until Paramount reorganized the studio in May 1942 after Max and Dave's contracts expired. Now owned wholly by Paramount, the studio was re-organized as Famous Studios, although the name wasn't officially adopted until May 1943. In the late-1940s, Fleischer moved over to Universal, where he became a special effects expert and general problem-solver, working on films such as Francis (1950), The Birds (1963), and Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967). Fleischer died of a stroke on June 25, 1979 in Woodland Hills, California, having spent over a decade in retirement.
639 directing credits · 6 acting credits
Directing · 639

Gulliver's Travels
1939

Superman
1941

Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
1936

The Arctic Giant
1942

Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942
2009

Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1941

Popeye the Sailor
1933

The Mechanical Monsters
1941

The Bulleteers
1942

Billion Dollar Limited
1942

Electric Earthquake
1942

The Spinach Roadster
1936

Poor Cinderella
1934

The Magnetic Telescope
1942
Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer
2024

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
1937

Christmas Comes But Once a Year
1936

Terror on the Midway
1942

You're Not Built That Way
1936

Betty Boop for President
1932

Let's Get Movin'
1936

Volcano
1942

The Chinaman
1920

Bimbo's Initiation
1931

Popeye's Premiere
1949

More Pep
1936

Goonland
1938

On with the New
1938

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
1932

Cops Is Always Right
1938

Organ Grinder's Swing
1937

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
1939

Boop-Oop-A-Doop
1932

Ants in the Plants
1940

Olive's $weep$take Ticket
1941

Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons
2015

Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
1931

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
1936

Ha! Ha! Ha!
1934

A Language All My Own
1935

We Did It
1936

Little Nobody
1935

Betty in Blunderland
1934

Snow-White
1933

Hospitaliky
1937

Snubbed by a Snob
1940

Shakespearian Spinach
1940

Betty Boop's Museum
1932

Quiet! Pleeze
1941

I Never Changes My Altitude
1937

Grampy's Indoor Outing
1936

House Cleaning Blues
1937

Out of the Inkwell
1919

A Car-Tune Portrait
1937

Ain't She Sweet
1933

Let's Celebrake
1938

Little Swee'pea
1936

Small Fry
1939

Problem Pappy
1941

Betty Boop's Birthday Party
1933

Pest Pilot
1941

Big Bad Sindbad
1952

Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
1928

Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
1940

Shiver Me Timbers!
1934

The Candid Candidate
1937

Koko Trains 'Em
1925

Training Pigeons
1936
Bring Himself Back Alive
1940
False Alarm
1923

The Dancing Fool
1932

Noah's Lark
1929
In the Shade of the Old Applesauce
1931

The Two-Alarm Fire
1934

Judge for a Day
1935

Somewhere in Dreamland
1936

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
1941

Females Is Fickle
1940

I Wanna Be a Life Guard
1936

Let's Sing with Popeye
1934

King of the Mardi Gras
1935

There's Something About a Soldier
1934

Let's You and Him Fight
1934

A Date to Skate
1938

Be Human
1936

Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
1935

Betty Boop and Grampy
1935

Stop That Noise
1935

Making Friends
1936

Accordion Joe
1930

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
1941

Wild Elephinks
1933

The Mighty Navy
1941

Taking the Blame
1935

Musical Mountaineers
1939

KoKo's Earth Control
1928

Choose Your 'Weppins'
1935

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
1933

Thrills and Chills
1938

The Old Man of the Mountain
1933

Dancing on the Moon
1935

For Better or Worser
1935

The Jeep
1938

The Song of the Birds
1935

The House Builder-Upper
1938

The Paneless Window Washer
1937
Fadeaway
1926

Nurse-Mates
1940
Koko's Toot Toot
1926

Ko-Ko's Haunted House
1928

What -- No Spinach?
1936

My Pop, My Pop
1940

Silly Scandals
1931

A Clean Shaven Man
1936

Leave Well Enough Alone
1939

The Cobweb Hotel
1936

Koko Packs 'Em
1925

My Friend the Monkey
1939

A Little Soap and Water
1935

Fowl Play
1937

Wotta Nitemare
1939
The Clown's Pup
1919

You Came to My Rescue
1937
Trip to Mars
1924

The Bum Bandit
1931

Little Lambkins
1940

Bedelia
1930

Peeping Penguins
1937

Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep
1931

Child Psykolojiky
1941

Sky Scraping
1930
Ko-Ko's Chase
1928

Ko-Ko's Queen
1926

Onion Pacific
1940

Hello How Am I
1939

The Clown's Little Brother
1920

Morning, Noon and Night Club
1937

Sock-a-Bye, Baby
1934

Stoopnocracy
1933

Bed Time
1923

Sleepy Time Down South
1932
Koko's Quest
1927

The Dance Contest
1934

A Hunting We Will Go
1932

Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
1932

Popeye Makes a Movie
1950
In My Merry Oldsmobile
1931

Protek the Weakerist
1937

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
1932

The Football Toucher Downer
1937

Seasin's Greetinks!
1933

My Old Kentucky Home
1926

Betty Boop's Little Pal
1934
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
1940

Hold It!
1938

The Runaway
1924

Bimbo's Express
1931

Minding the Baby
1931

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
1932

King for a Day
1940

You Gotta Be a Football Hero
1935

Puttin on the Act
1940

You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
1940

The Herring Murder Case
1931

Blunder Below
1942

Me Feelins is Hurt
1940
Vaudeville
1924

Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
1932

Spinach Packin' Popeye
1944

Mother Goose Land
1933

After the Ball
1929

Cartoon Factory
1924

Oh, You Beautiful Doll
1929

Dizzy Divers
1935

It's the Cat's
1926

The Male Man
1931

Betty Boop's Trial
1934

Doing Impossikible Stunts
1940

Poopdeck Pappy
1940

Popeye Meets William Tell
1940

Chess-Nuts
1932

The Fortune Teller
1923
Boilesk
1933

Koko Needles the Boss
1927

The Man on the Flying Trapeze
1934

Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
1942

Betty Boop's May Party
1933

Dizzy Dishes
1930
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
1932

Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
1937

The Scared Crows
1939

Honest Love and True
1938

Bridge Ahoy!
1936

Strong to the Finich
1934
Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
1940

Ko-Ko on the Run
1925
Ko-Ko Squeals
1928

Kickin' the Conga Round
1942

Love Thy Neighbor
1934

Thanksgiving
1925

Is My Palm Read
1933

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
1933

Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
1938

The Einstein Theory of Relativity
1923

Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
1942

The Hyp-Nut-Tist
1935

Perpetual Motion
1920

Popular Melodies
1933

Bunny Mooning
1937
Little Lamby
1937

Never Kick a Woman
1936

Not Now
1936

Betty Boop and the Little King
1936
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
1924

Nix on Hypnotricks
1941

I Likes Babies and Infinks
1937

Fleets of Stren'th
1942

Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
1940

I Yam Love Sick
1938

Never Sock a Baby
1939

Swat the Fly
1935

Be Kind to 'Aminals'
1935
The Ugly Dino
1940

Koko Nuts
1925

Up to Mars
1930

When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
1933
Tune Up and Sing
1934
The Big Fun Carnival
1957

The Peanut Vendor
1933

Sing a Song
1932

Kitty from Kansas City
1931
Now You're Talking
1927

I Like Mountain Music
1933

Beware of Barnacle Bill
1935

Buzzy Boop at the Concert
1938

Admission Free
1932

Barnacle Bill
1930

We Aim to Please
1934

Swing You Sinners!
1930

Swing Cleaning
1941

I Ain't Got Nobody
1932

The Foul Ball Player
1940

Minnie the Moocher
1932

I Eats My Spinach
1933

Betty Boop's Penthouse
1933

Ko-Ko the Barber
1925

Out of the Inkwell
1938

Balloons
1923

Brotherly Love
1936

The Little Stranger
1936

Happy You and Merry Me
1936

I'll Never Crow Again
1941

Pay Day
1922

Dinah
1933

Betty Boop's Big Boss
1933

Zula Hula
1937

Crazy-Town
1932

Mysterious Mose
1930

I'm in the Army Now
1936

The Impractical Joker
1937

The Fulla Bluff Man
1940

Bulldozing the Bull
1938

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1931

Olive's Boithday Presink
1941

Any Rags
1932

Reaching for the Moon
1933

Sing, Sisters, Sing!
1933

The Betty Boop Limited
1932
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
1930

Hide and Seek
1932

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
1938

Magic on Broadway
1937

The Kids in the Shoe
1935

She Wronged Him Right
1934

Hold the Wire
1936

Betty Boop's Life Guard
1934

Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
1937

Little Annie Rooney
1931
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
1930

Fire Cheese
1941

Flies Ain't Human
1941

Mother Gooseland
1924

The Circus
1920

Adventures of Popeye
1935

In the Good Old Summertime
1930
The Raven
1942

The Hot Air Salesman
1937

Yip-Yip-Yippy
1939

Mutiny Ain't Nice
1938

Bubbles
1922

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching)
1926

Lost and Foundry
1937

Can You Take It
1934
Another Bottle, Doctor
1926

Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
1933

Time on My Hands
1932

I Heard
1933

My Baby Just Cares for Me
1931
Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit
1940

Customers Wanted
1939

Ghosks Is the Bunk
1939

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
1936

Fishing
1921

Betty Boop, M.D.
1932
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
1925

All's Fair at the Fair
1938

Red Hot Mamma
1934

Play Safe
1936

Hot Dog
1930

The Twisker Pitcher
1937

The Barnyard Brat
1939

Stealin Aint Honest
1940

Granite Hotel
1940

The Automobile Ride
1921

Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl
1931
The Tears of an Onion
1938

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
1936

Grand Uproar
1930

No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
1935

Modeling
1921

Keeps Rainin' All the Time
1934

Many Tanks
1942

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
1934
If You Could Shrink
1920

Ko-Ko at the Circus
1926

Chemical Ko-Ko
1929
Smiles
1929

Just One More Chance
1932

S.O.S.
1932

Tree Saps
1931

Rudy Vallee Melodies
1932

Koko Chops Suey
1927

Pudgy the Watchman
1938

Russian Lullaby
1931

Shine on Harvest Moon
1932

Mask-A-Raid
1931

Service with a Smile
1937

Fire Bugs
1930

Educated Fish
1937

Baby Wants a Bottleship
1942

The Foxy Hunter
1937

Musical Memories
1935
The Laundry
1924
Trapped
1923

Morning, Noon and Night
1933

Blow Me Down!
1933

Pleased to Meet Cha!
1935

KoKo's Klock
1927

Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
1941

Baby Be Good
1935

The Dandy Lion
1940

An Elephant Never Forgets
1935

It's the Natural Thing to Do
1939

The Robot
1932

Hawaiian Birds
1936

Alexander's Ragtime Band
1931

'Morning, Judge
1926
Strike Up the Band
1930
Old Black Joe
1926

Koko Sees Spooks
1925

Pedagogical Institution (College to You)
1940

Ko-Ko's Conquest
1929

Greedy Humpty Dumpty
1936
KoKo's Parade
1928

A Dream Walking
1934

Shoein' Hosses
1934

Learn Polikeness
1938

Ding Dong Doggie
1937
That Little Big Fellow
1927

A Kick in Time
1940

Koko in 1999
1927

Vitamin Hay
1941
In the Good Old Summer Time
1926

Teacher's Pest
1931
Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
1928

The Challenge
1922

By the Beautiful Sea
1931

All's Well
1941

Betty Co-ed
1931

KoKo the Kop
1927

Always Kickin'
1939

Buzzy Boop
1938
Marriage Wows
1929

I Can't Escape from You
1936

Hunky and Spunky
1938

Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet
1929

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
1941

The Spinach Overture
1935

You Leave Me Breathless
1938

Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
1933

The Hills of Old Wyomin'
1936

The Vacationers' Paradise
1942

Koko the Hot Shot
1925
The Cure
1924

Thanks for the Memory
1938

Keep in Style
1934

My Wife's Gone to the Country
1931
Koko's Paradise
1926

I Yam What I Yam
1933

Rhythm on the Reservation
1939

The New Deal Show
1937

It's Easy to Remember
1935

Wedding Belts
1940

Ko-Ko's Big Sale
1929

No Eyes Today
1929

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
1939

Pudgy Picks a Fight
1937

Gabby Goes Fishing
1941

Sweet Jennie Lee
1932

China Town, My China Town
1929

When My Ship Comes In
1934

Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 1
2013

Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick
1940
Dixie
1929
For Me and My Gal
1926

Flies
1922

Just a Gigolo
1932

Two for the Zoo
1941

She Reminds Me of You
1934

Ko-Ko's War Dogs
1928

Never Should Have Told You
1937

Prisoner's Song
1930
Inklings, Issue 12
1925

Wise Flies
1930

Riding the Rails
1938

That Old Gang of Mine
1931

My Artistical Temperature
1937
Big Chief Koko
1925

Invisible Ink
1921

Ko-Ko Smokes
1928
My Gal Sal
1930

Stopping the Show
1932

Koko Back Tracks
1927
Shadows
1923

The Wizard of Arts
1941

Axe Me Another
1934

Romantic Melodies
1932
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
1930

Fightin Pals
1940
Yankee Doodle Boy
1929

Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
1926

Surprise
1923

Making Stars
1935

Little Dutch Mill
1934

Song Shopping
1933

Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 2
2013

Koko’s Kane
1927

Jack and the Beanstalk
1931

Twenty Legs Under the Sea
1931

Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem
1929

Boo, Boo, Theme Song!
1933

Clay Town
1924
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
1929

Mariutch
1930

Betty Boop: The Essential Collection: Volume 3
2014

Ko-Ko's Tattoo
1928

Ko-Ko's Courtship
1928

The Storm
1924

The Puzzle
1923

La Paloma
1930
The Boxing Kangaroo
1920
Koko the Convict
1926

By the Light of the Silvery Moon
1927

The Swing School
1938

The Reunion
1922
Beside a Moonlit Stream
1938

So Does an Automobile
1939

Margie
1926
Ko-Ko in the Rough
1928

I Don't Want to Make History
1936
Old Black Joe
1929

This Little Piggie Went to Market
1934
Vacation
1924
Ko-Ko Cleans Up
1928

Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
1929
Ye Olde Melodies
1929

Springtime in the Rock Age
1940

Copy Cat
1941

The Dresden Doll
1922

Ko-Ko's Magic
1928

Ko-Ko Hops Off
1927
Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points
1940

Zero the Hound
1941

Ko-Ko's Kink
1928
Jingle Bells
1927

KoKo Lamps Aladdin
1928

The Playful Polar Bears
1938

Wimmin is a Myskery
1940
KoKo Explores
1927
Bizarre Cartoons Of The Past
2007

The Glow Worm
1930
Row, Row, Row
1930
Koko Steps Out
1925
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
1931

I've Got Rings on My Fingers
1929

Betty Boop's Prize Show
1934

Radio Riot
1930

School Days
1932

Whispers in the Dark
1937

And the Green Grass Grew All Around
1931

Down by the Old Mill Stream
1933

Koko Gets Egg-Cited
1926
Daisy Bell
1929
Cartoonland
1921
Nutcracker Suite
1925
When I Lost You
1926
Koko the Kavalier
1927

You Try Somebody Else
1932

The Stein Song
1930
Ko-Ko on the Track
1928

Lazy Bones
1934

Time for Love
1935

Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
1937

Ko-Ko the Knight
1927
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
1931

Koko Baffles the Bulls
1926
Oh Mabel
1924
Dixie
1925

Koko's Big Catch
1924
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
1927

Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
1934

Koko Plays Pool
1927

Koko in Toyland
1925
The Mosquito
1922

Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff
1941

Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
1931
Goodbye My Lady Love
1929
Tumbledown Shack in Athlone
1927

Ace of Spades
1931

Yes! We Have No Bananas
1930

I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
1936

Talking Through My Heart
1936

Sally Swing
1938

The Constable
1940

Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble
1941
Ko-Ko's Focus
1929
Chicken a la King
1937

The Cow's Husband
1931

Darling Nelly Gray
1926

Masquerade
1924

Comin' Thro' the Rye
1926

Aloha Oe
1933

Sing, Babies, Sing!
1933
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
1938

When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'
1926
The Sheik of Araby
1926

Inklings, Issue Unknown
1927
Poker
1920
The Battle
1923
Thaddeus and Arline
1925
Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main
1925
Yak-A-Doola-Hick-A-Doola
1926
When I Leave This World Behind
1926
Toot Toot Tootsie
1926
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
1926
The Rocky Road to Dublin
1927

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
1930
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
1930

Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows
1941
You're Driving Me Crazy
1931
Daisy Bell
1925
I Love a Lassie
1926
Ko-Ko's Dog-Gone
1928
Ko-Ko's Act
1928
Texas in 1999
1931
Suited to a T.
1931
Inklings, Issue ??
1927

Birthday
1922

Down Among the Sugar Cane
1932
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
1932

Ko-Ko's Reward
1929

A Song a Day
1936
Jumping Beans
1922

No Other One
1936
Pudgy and the Lost Kitten
1938

Mommy Loves Puppy
1940

Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
1940

Ko-Ko the Kid
1927

The Show
1922

League of Nations
1924

Sweet Adeline
1926
Inklings No. 10
1928

On a Sunday Afternoon
1930
Experiment No. 3
1919
Slides
1919
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
1924
Oh, Suzanna
1925
Koko Eats
1925
Everybody's Doing It
1926
Alexander's Ragtime Band
1926
Oh I Wish I Was in Michigan
1927
Ko-Ko's Big Pull
1928
Ko-Ko Heaves-Ho
1928
My Pony Boy
1929
My Sweetie
1926
Beautiful Eyes
1926
Animated Hair Cartoon, No. 10
1926

Ko-Ko's Catch
1928

Ko-Ko's Hypnotism
1929

Be Up to Date
1938

Twilight on the Trail
1937

Contest
1923

Sparring Partner
1924
The Hypnotist
1922

Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh
1927

Somebody Stole My Gal
1931

Show Me the Way to Go Home
1932

When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
1932

Koko Hot After It
1926
Koko's Field Daze
1928
Goodbye My Lady Love
1924
The Sidewalks of New York
1925
Old Pal
1925
My Bonnie
1925
East Side, West Side
1925
Oh What a Pal Was Mary
1926
My Wife's Gone to the Country
1926
Finiculee Fincula
1926
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
1927
KoKo Kicks
1927
KoKo's Kozy Korner
1928
Ko-Ko Goes Over
1928
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
1929
Ko-Ko's Signals
1929
Ko-Ko's Saxaphonies
1929
Ko-Ko's Knock Down
1929
I Love to Fall Asleep
1926
Never Say Never
1935
Ko-Ko Beats Time
1929

I Wished on the Moon
1935
Ko-Ko's Crib
1929
Experiment No. 2
1919
Old Folks at Home
1925
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye
1926
Pack Up Your Troubles
1926
Micky
1926
Koko Kidnapped
1926
Ko-Ko's Bawth
1928
Step On It
1931


