Max Fleischer

Max Fleicher

Birth Date

7/19/1883 (Age 89)

Birth Place

Krakau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary [now Kraków, Malopolskie, Poland]

Death Date

9/11/1972

Departments

Production

Biography

Max Fleischer (July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish Jewish American animator, inventor, film director and producer. Fleischer was a pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon and served as the head of Fleischer Studios. He brought such animated characters as Betty Boop, Koko the Clown, Popeye and Superman to the movie screen and was responsible for a number of technological innovations including the Rotoscope. (Wikipedia)