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
