
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.

The Constable

Popeye's Premiere

Max Fleischer: Lost Cartoons

Musical Memories

Ko-Ko's Haunted House

Grand Uproar

Radio Riot

Ko-Ko's Hot Ink

Ko-Ko at the Circus

My Pop, My Pop

Swing Cleaning

Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix

Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

King for a Day

Never Kick a Woman

Sky Scraping

Protek the Weakerist

Morning, Noon and Night Club

I Eats My Spinach

Somewhere in Dreamland

All's Well

Max Fleischer's Superman 1941-1942

Fowl Play

The Storm

All's Fair at the Fair

The Fresh Vegetable Mystery

Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky

Wild Elephinks

Can You Take It

We Aim to Please

Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp

Seasin's Greetinks!

The Circus

Bimbo's Initiation

The Chinaman

The Cobweb Hotel

The Herring Murder Case

The Male Man

Twenty Legs Under the Sea

The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Talking Through My Heart

Wise Flies

Up to Mars

Koko Needles the Boss

I Wanna Be a Life Guard

Let's Get Movin'

Shiver Me Timbers!

Bulldozing the Bull

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy

Fire Cheese

Two for the Zoo

The Cow's Husband

Christmas Comes But Once a Year

Out of the Inkwell

The Mechanical Monsters

Volcano

The Magnetic Telescope

Billion Dollar Limited

Popeye the Sailor

Superman

Goonland

Betty Boop and Grampy

Cartoon Factory

Betty Boop's Penthouse

The Arctic Giant

Snow-White

King of the Mardi Gras

Sock-a-Bye, Baby

Invisible Ink

Strong to the Finich

Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive

Bridge Ahoy!

I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski

Hold the Wire

Judge for a Day

The Hyp-Nut-Tist

For Better or Worser

Dizzy Divers

Axe Me Another

It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day

Gabby Goes Fishing

Hospitaliky

Swing You Sinners!

The Old Man of the Mountain

Betty Boop, M.D.

KoKo's Earth Control

I Yam What I Yam

The Paneless Window Washer

What -- No Spinach?

The Little Stranger

Learn Polikeness

Let's Celebrake

The House Builder-Upper

My Artistical Temperature

The Twisker Pitcher

Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee

Modeling

A Dream Walking

Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'

Mutiny Ain't Nice

Wotta Nitemare

Pest Pilot

I Likes Babies and Infinks

Little Swee'pea

Betty in Blunderland

船乗りシンドバッドの冒険

Blow Me Down!

Time for Love

Lost and Foundry

Terror on the Midway

The Spinach Roadster

Beware of Barnacle Bill

Ants in the Plants

ベティの家出

The Robot

Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party

Play Safe

A Clean Shaven Man

Pleased to Meet Cha!

The Spinach Overture

Red Hot Mamma

I Heard

Electric Earthquake

The Bulleteers

A Hunting We Will Go

Adventures of Popeye

Bunny Mooning

Shoein' Hosses

Cops Is Always Right

Leave Well Enough Alone

Organ Grinder's Swing

Ko-Ko Smokes

Betty Boop's Ups and Downs

Dizzy Red Riding-Hood

Nix on Hypnotricks

The Football Toucher Downer

Boop-Oop-A-Doop

Ha! Ha! Ha!

Greedy Humpty Dumpty

Brotherly Love

You Gotta Be a Football Hero

The Two-Alarm Fire

Betty Boop and the Little King

Bed Time

Never Sock a Baby

Puttin on the Act

Poor Cinderella

Little Dutch Mill

S.O.S.

Choose Your 'Weppins'

I Never Changes My Altitude

Mother Goose Land

Chess-Nuts

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

ガリヴァー旅行記

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

Betty Boop's Ker-Choo

Hawaiian Birds

Happy You and Merry Me

The Dance Contest

Sally Swing

The Jeep

Wimmin is a Myskery

The Mighty Navy

Quiet! Pleeze

A Car-Tune Portrait

Be Kind to 'Aminals'

Mask-A-Raid

Small Fry

Betty Boop for President

Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle

Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions

Betty Boop's Museum

Ace of Spades

Granite Hotel

Betty Boop's May Party

Betty Boop's Big Boss

Mysterious Mose

Hot Dog

The Clown's Little Brother

Child Psykolojiky

Bubbles

I'm in the Army Now

Dancing on the Moon

A Kick in Time

Let's Sing with Popeye

Thrills and Chills

Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem

Popeye Makes a Movie

Riding the Rails

The Playful Polar Bears

Doing Impossikible Stunts

Olive's $weep$take Ticket

Vitamin Hay

Olive's Boithday Presink

Problem Pappy

Stealin Aint Honest

I'll Never Crow Again

Flies Ain't Human

Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle

Kickin' the Conga Round

Many Tanks

Baby Wants a Bottleship

Blunder Below

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

Accordion Joe

Koko Sees Spooks

KoKo the Kop

Koko Hot After It

Buzzy Boop at the Concert

Jack and the Beanstalk

Crazy-Town

Keep in Style

When My Ship Comes In

Poopdeck Pappy

The Impractical Joker

More Pep

Betty Boop's Rise to Fame

A Little Soap and Water

It's the Natural Thing to Do

Hunky and Spunky

Educated Fish

The Dancing Fool

The Betty Boop Limited

We Did It

Grampy's Indoor Outing

I Yam Love Sick

Fleets of Stren'th

House Cleaning Blues

The Kids in the Shoe

Always Kickin'

Customers Wanted

Ain't She Sweet

Silly Scandals

Dizzy Dishes

A Date to Skate

Be Human

An Elephant Never Forgets

Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep

The Song of the Birds

Minding the Baby

Parade of the Wooden Soldiers

Betty Boop's Prize Show

Pudgy the Watchman

Ghosks Is the Bunk

Fightin Pals

Nurse-Mates

The Reunion

The Einstein Theory of Relativity

Baby Be Good

Betty Boop's Trial

Is My Palm Read

Bimbo's Express

Betty Boop's Life Guard

Out of the Inkwell

Let's You and Him Fight

Peeping Penguins

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (The Boys Are Marching)

Hold It!

Snubbed by a Snob

There's Something About a Soldier

A Song a Day

Swat the Fly

A Language All My Own

Somebody Stole My Gal

Barnacle Bill

You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly

Rhythm on the Reservation

Taking the Blame

Stopping the Show

Morning, Noon and Night

She Wronged Him Right

Musical Mountaineers

You're Not Built That Way

Little Nobody

The Scared Crows

Big Bad Sindbad

Popeye Meets William Tell

Shakespearian Spinach

Betty Boop's Birthday Party

Betty Boop and Little Jimmy

Not Now

Ding Dong Doggie

Birthday

Just a Gigolo

Betty Co-ed

In the Good Old Summertime

Betty Boop's Little Pal

I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze

Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh

The Barnyard Brat

Hello How Am I

The Dresden Doll

Spinach Packin' Popeye

Contest

The Runaway

Fishing

Russian Lullaby

Flies

The Puzzle

Mother Gooseland

The Fortune Teller

Stoopnocracy

Admission Free

The Candid Candidate

Training Pigeons

China Town, My China Town

Teacher's Pest

No! No! A Thousand Times No!!

So Does an Automobile

The Swing School

Zula Hula

The Peanut Vendor

The Bum Bandit

Making Friends

Any Rags

My Friend the Monkey

Pudgy Picks a Fight

On with the New

Be Up to Date

Popular Melodies

Noah's Lark

Kitty from Kansas City

Fire Bugs

Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow

Honest Love and True

Me Feelins is Hurt

The New Deal Show

Whoops! I'm a Cowboy

My Old Kentucky Home

Perpetual Motion

Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American

Mariutch

Stop That Noise

Onion Pacific

The Foxy Hunter

Service with a Smile

Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl

The Hot Air Salesman

Females Is Fickle

Hide and Seek

Koko Back Tracks

Little Lambkins

Surprise

Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep

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

Rudy Vallee Melodies

Down Among the Sugar Cane

In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree

Sleepy Time Down South

Song Shopping

Making Stars

I Wished on the Moon

Bedelia

The Automobile Ride

Aloha Oe

You Try Somebody Else

Romantic Melodies

The Stein Song

On a Sunday Afternoon

I Ain't Got Nobody

Time on My Hands

Dinah

This Little Piggie Went to Market

Show Me the Way to Go Home

When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba

After the Ball

Little Annie Rooney

That Old Gang of Mine

Tree Saps

Oh, You Beautiful Doll

I've Got Rings on My Fingers

Put on Your Old Grey Bonnet

La Paloma

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Lazy Bones

Never Should Have Told You

I Can't Escape from You

I Don't Want to Make History

No Other One

She Reminds Me of You

Love Thy Neighbor

My Wife's Gone to the Country

School Days

Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing

Yip-Yip-Yippy

Whispers in the Dark

Twilight on the Trail

Please Keep Me in Your Dreams

Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie

Prisoner's Song

Just One More Chance

My Baby Just Cares for Me

And the Green Grass Grew All Around

I Like Mountain Music

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

Alexander's Ragtime Band

Sing, Babies, Sing!

Down by the Old Mill Stream

Keeps Rainin' All the Time

Boo, Boo, Theme Song!

It's the Cat's

Koko Packs 'Em

Ko-Ko's War Dogs

Koko Chops Suey

The Glow Worm

Ko-Ko's Conquest

Ko-Ko's Catch

Ko-Ko's Reward

Ko-Ko's Hypnotism

Reaching for the Moon

Koko Trains 'Em

Buzzy Boop

Springtime in the Rock Age

The Fulla Bluff Man

Mommy Loves Puppy

The Dandy Lion

Balloons

The Foul Ball Player

Pedagogical Institution (College to You)

Wedding Belts

Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse

Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick

The Wizard of Arts

Twinkletoes Gets the Bird

Zero the Hound

Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble

Copy Cat

Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows

Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff

Ko-Ko's Magic

Ko-Ko Hops Off

Ko-Ko's Big Sale

Ko-Ko the Kid

Chemical Ko-Ko

Ko-Ko's Tattoo

Ko-Ko's Courtship

Darling Nelly Gray

Margie

Pay Day

The Challenge

The Show

Masquerade

League of Nations

Sparring Partner

Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh

Ko-Ko on the Run

Koko the Hot Shot

Koko Plays Pool

Ko-Ko the Knight

Comin' Thro' the Rye

Koko’s Kane

Thanksgiving

Koko Nuts

Sweet Adeline

Ko-Ko's Queen

Ko-Ko the Barber

Koko in 1999

By the Beautiful Sea

Sing a Song

Shine on Harvest Moon

Sing, Sisters, Sing!

Sweet Jennie Lee

Magic on Broadway

Thanks for the Memory

It's Easy to Remember

You Leave Me Breathless

The Hills of Old Wyomin'

You Came to My Rescue

KoKo Lamps Aladdin

Ko-Ko's Kink

Koko Gets Egg-Cited

Koko Baffles the Bulls

By the Light of the Silvery Moon

When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'

Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean

No Eyes Today

Ko-Ko's Hot Dog

KoKo's Klock

'Morning, Judge

Inklings, Issue Unknown

Koko in Toyland

Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?

The Vacationers' Paradise

Clay Town

Koko's Big Catch