FILM DIRECTOR

Max Fleischer

1883 - 1972

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Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was an American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, in Austrian Poland, Fleischer immigrated to the United States where he became a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios, which he co-founded with his younger brother Dave. He brought such comic characters as Koko the Clown, Betty Boop, Popeye, and Superman to the movie screen, and was responsible for several technological innovations, including the Rotoscope, the "Follow the Bouncing Ball" technique pioneered in the Ko-Ko Song Car-Tunes films, and the "Stereoptical Process". Film director Richard Fleischer was his son. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Max Fleischer is the 769th most popular film director (up from 823rd in 2019), the 821st most popular biography from Poland (up from 833rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Max Fleischer ranks 769 out of 2,041. Before him are Tomoyuki Tanaka, Konrad Wolf, Wolfgang Becker, Emil Loteanu, Henry Selick, and Pierre Granier-Deferre. After him are Budd Boetticher, Rintaro, Rudolph Maté, Mamoru Hosoda, Raoul Servais, and André Roosevelt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Max Fleischer ranks 173. Before him are Pavel Filonov, Sylvanus Morley, Pedro Parages, Alfred Saalwächter, Charles Demuth, and Ahmet Ali Çelikten. After him are Alberto Braglia, Hjalmar Bergman, Theodor Loos, Émile Eddé, Olaf Bull, and William J. Donovan. Among people deceased in 1972, Max Fleischer ranks 149. Before him are Abeid Karume, Alfons Gorbach, Martim Mércio da Silveira, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Marianne Moore, and Alfred Schmidt. After him are Balys Dvarionas, Robert Andersson, Markos Vamvakaris, Romas Kalanta, Roger Courtois, and Roberto Clemente.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Fleischer ranks 821 out of 1,694. Before him are Jan Kiepura (1902), Konrad Krajewski (1963), Józef Oleksy (1946), Frederick II of Legnica (1480), Ryszard Kukliński (1930), and Anna Maria Jopek (1970). After him are Johannes Winkler (1897), Rudolph Maté (1898), Ida Siekmann (1902), Jadwiga Piłsudska (1920), Werner Olk (1938), and Alfred Stock (1876).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Max Fleischer ranks 18. Before him are Krzysztof Zanussi (1939), Walerian Borowczyk (1923), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Andrzej Munk (1921), and Wojciech Has (1925). After him are Rudolph Maté (1898), Boris Kaufman (1906), Piotr Szulkin (1950), Wanda Jakubowska (1907), Janusz Kamiński (1959), and Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949).

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