Dave Fleischer

Directeur, Scénariste, Acteur, Producteur

14 juillet 1894 — 25 juin 1979 (84 ans)
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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.

Films & Séries sur Plex

  • Les Voyages de Gulliver
    Les Voyages de Gulliver1939
  • Superman : Le Scientifique Fou
    Superman : Le Scientifique Fou1941
  • Superman : Les Monstres Mécaniques
    Superman : Les Monstres Mécaniques1941
  • Superman : Le Monstre des Glaces
    Superman : Le Monstre des Glaces1942
  • Superman : L'Attaque du Train Postal
    Superman : L'Attaque du Train Postal1942
  • Superman : Les Envahisseurs
    Superman : Les Envahisseurs1942
  • Superman : Le Télescope Magnétique
    Superman : Le Télescope Magnétique1942
  • Superman : Terreur sur Manhattan
    Superman : Terreur sur Manhattan1942
  • Superman : Le Réveil du Volcan Monokoa
    Superman : Le Réveil du Volcan Monokoa1942
  • Superman : Terreur au Cirque
    Superman : Terreur au Cirque1942
  • Superman : Les Saboteurs
    Superman : Les Saboteurs1942
  • Superman : La Onzième Heure
    Superman : La Onzième Heure1942
  • Superman : Les Tambours de la Jungle
    Superman : Les Tambours de la Jungle1943
  • Noël n'arrive qu'une fois par an
    Noël n'arrive qu'une fois par an1936
  • Superman : Le Peuple Souterrain
    Superman : Le Peuple Souterrain1943

Connue pour

  • Les Voyages de Gulliver
    Les Voyages de Gulliver1939
  • Popeye le marin rencontre Sindbad
    Popeye le marin rencontre Sindbad1936
  • Superman : Le Scientifique Fou
    Superman : Le Scientifique Fou1941
  • Blanche-Neige
    Blanche-Neige1933
  • Superman : Les Monstres Mécaniques
    Superman : Les Monstres Mécaniques1941
  • Minnie la Morue
    Minnie la Morue1932
  • Le bizutage de Bimbo
    Le bizutage de Bimbo1931
  • Douce et Criquet s'aimaient d'amour tendre
    Douce et Criquet s'aimaient d'amour tendre1941
  • Superman : Le Monstre des Glaces
    Superman : Le Monstre des Glaces1942
  • Superman : L'Attaque du Train Postal
    Superman : L'Attaque du Train Postal1942
  • Superman : Les Envahisseurs
    Superman : Les Envahisseurs1942
  • Superman : Le Télescope Magnétique
    Superman : Le Télescope Magnétique1942
  • Popeye rencontre Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs
    Popeye rencontre Ali Baba et les 40 voleurs1937
  • Superman : Terreur sur Manhattan
    Superman : Terreur sur Manhattan1942
  • Superman : Le Réveil du Volcan Monokoa
    Superman : Le Réveil du Volcan Monokoa1942
  • Superman : Terreur au Cirque
    Superman : Terreur au Cirque1942
  • Noël n'arrive qu'une fois par an
    Noël n'arrive qu'une fois par an1936
  • Aladdin et la lampe merveilleuse
    Aladdin et la lampe merveilleuse1939
  • Somewhere in Dreamland
    Somewhere in Dreamland1935
  • Le vieux de la montagne
    Le vieux de la montagne1933

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