Max Fleischer
Filed under: People, Cartoonist, Director, Photographer, Producer, Writer, Aesop's Fables, Betty Boop, Early Sound, Inkwell / Fleischer Studios, Koko the Clown, Max Fleischer, Popeye, Rotoscope, Silent, Superman, U.S.A.,
Max Fleischer
Occupation / Title:Cartoonist, Director, Photographer, Producer, Writer
Date of birth:19/07/1883
Date of death:11/09/1972
Birthplace:Kraków
Biography
Max Fleischer was an American inventor born in Hungary, who moved to the United States with his family at the age of 4 and later became a filmmaker, animator, director and producer, famous for serving as the head of his own animation studio, Fleischer Studios, with his brother Dave.
Family and early life
Fleischer was born the second out of six children to Austrian-Hungarian tailor, William Fleischer. The Jewish family settled in New York City in 1887, where Max attended public school, later receiving commercial arts training as a graphic artist at the iconic Cooper Union School, where admission was and still is granted on the basis of personal skill with admission being largely funded through scholarships.
Career outline
Max worked for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle as an errand boy in his teenage years, later moving up the ranks and becoming a cartoonist for the paper. After moving to Boston briefly for a job as an illustrator, Max Flesicher returned to New York to work for Popular Science magazine in 1912.
Max patented The Rotoscope as an animating device in 1915, a process to simplify the process of animation through the usage of live-action footage and tracing frames to create animated movements. Dave and Max Fleischer used together the design of the rotoscope to shoot a cartoon in 1914, and their Out of the Inkwell series was largely animated on the basis of this technique, which marked the creation of the characters Koko the Clown and Fitz the Dog.
For several years, the Fleischer brothers produced the Inkwell series for Bray Productions, until 1921, when they decided to start their own studio for distribution rights. Max’s stars continued to be incapsulated in the characters of Koko and Fitz, and the brothers later collaborated with the Red Seal Pictures Coroporation, who owned large theatre chains on the East Cost.
Early into the sound era, Max Fleischer made many cartoons or rotoscopes featuring depicted images of black jazz performers, popular at the time, such as that of Cab Calloway, Louis Armstrong and Don Redman. By 1928, the Fleischers were making their transition into sound, and while Walt Disney was gaining massive popularity with the Silly Symphonies series, the Fleischers created Talkartoon, and premiered with the character Bimbo. Bimbo’s girlfriend was an early prototype for what later evolved into Betty Boop, with the help of animator Grim Natwick, and gradually her canine features were erased for overtly sexualized ideas of feminity. Betty Boop became a huge star for Fleischer Productions, and later Popeye the Sailor would appear on screen with her in 1929. Popeye remained in production until 1957, for a number of decades and at certain moments in time would eclipse the popularity of Mickey Mouse. Though Fleischer studios was funded largely by Paramount, after the crash of the 30’s, and the reorganization of the company which was a result of its bankrupsy resulted in an unstable period for Fleischer Productions.
Personal style
Fleischer was the first person to come up with the “follow the bouncing ball” technique, for his series of Song Car-Tunes singalongs shorts, which debuted in 1924, May. Often misidentified as the first synchronized sound cartoon, Fleischer actually first synchronized sound with animation for this series, but the badly timed bankruptcy of DeForest Phonofilm Corp. and Red Seal Pictures marked the end of this series.
Honors and awards
Annie Award: Winsor McCay Award 1972
Filmography
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- “Popeye” (1956) TV Series (producer) (vintage theatrical cartoons 1933-1942)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948) (producer) (uncredited)
- Terror on the Midway (1942) (producer) (uncredited)
- Volcano (1942) (producer)
- Baby Wants a Bottleship (1942) (producer)
- Electric Earthquake (1942) (producer)
- Many Tanks (1942) (producer)
- Olive Oyl and Water Don’t Mix (1942) (producer)
- The Magnetic Telescope (1942) (producer)
- Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an’ Peep-eye (1942) (producer)
- The Raven (1942) (producer)
- The Bulleteers (1942) (producer)
- Fleets of Stren’th (1942) (producer)
- The Arctic Giant (1942) (producer)
- Blunder Below (1942) (producer)
- Kickin’ the Conga Round (1942) (producer)
- Billion Dollar Limited (1942) (producer)
- Nix on Hypnotricks (1941) (producer)
- Mr. Bug Goes to Town (1941) (producer) … aka Hoppity Goes to Town (UK)
- Mechanical Monsters (1941) (producer)
- The Mighty Navy (1941) (producer)
- Superman (1941) (producer) … aka Superman: The Introduction (UK: video box title) … aka The Death Ray (UK: video box title) … aka The Mad Scientist
- I’ll Never Crow Again (1941) (producer)
- Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff (1941) (producer)
- Vitamin Hay (1941) (producer)
- It’s a Hap-Hap-Happy Day (1941) (producer)
- Pest Pilot (1941) (producer)
- The Wizard of Arts (1941) (producer)
- Copy Cat (1941) (producer)
- Gabby Goes Fishing (1941) (producer)
- Child Psykolojiky (1941) (producer)
- Twinkletoes – Where He Goes Nobody Knows (1941) (producer)
- Fire Cheese (1941) (producer)
- Olive’s Boithday Presink (1941) (producer)
- Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle (1941) (producer)
- Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble (1941) (producer)
- Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy (1941) (producer)
- Swing Cleaning (1941) (producer)
- Flies Ain’t Human (1941) (producer)
- Twinkletoes Gets the Bird (1941) (producer)
- Olive’s $weep$take Ticket (1941) (producer)
- Two for the Zoo (1941) (producer)
- Zero, the Hound (1941) (producer)
- Quiet! Pleeze (1941) (producer)
- All’s Well (1941) (producer)
- Problem Pappy (1941) (producer)
- Bring Himself Back Alive (1940) (producer)
- Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep (1940) (producer)
- Mommy Loves Puppy (1940) (producer)
- The Constable (1940) (producer)
- Poopdeck Pappy (1940) (producer) … aka Popeye the Sailor with Poopdeck Pappy (USA: complete title)
- Sneak, Snoop and Snitch (1940) (producer)
- King for a Day (1940) (producer)
- My Pop, My Pop (1940) (producer)
- Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh (1940) (producer)
- The Dandy Lion (1940) (producer)
- Popeye Meets William Tell (1940) (producer)
- Pedagogical Institution (College to You) (1940) (producer)
- Puttin on the Act (1940) (producer)
- Springtime in the Rock Age (1940) (producer)
- You Can’t Shoe a Horsefly (1940) (producer)
- Wimmin Hadn’t Oughta Drive (1940) (producer)
- The Fulla Bluff Man (1940) (producer)
- Doing Impossikible Stunts (1940) (producer)
- Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit (1940) (producer)
- Snubbed by a Snob (1940) (producer)
- Fightin Pals (1940) (producer)
- Wedding Belts (1940) (producer)
- Nurse-Mates (1940) (producer)
- The Ugly Dino (1940) (producer)
- Wimmen Is a Myskery (1940) (producer)
- The Foul Ball Player (1940) (producer)
- Onion Pacific (1940) (producer)
- A Kick in Time (1940) (producer)
- Granite Hotel (1940) (producer)
- Me Feelins Is Hurt (1940) (producer)
- Stealin’ Ain’t Honest (1940) (producer)
- Ants in the Plants (1940) (producer)
- Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick (1940) (producer)
- Females Is Fickle (1940) (producer)
- Little Lambkin (1940) (producer) … aka Little Lambkins (USA: 16mm release title)
- Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points (1940) (producer)
- Shakespearian Spinach (1940) (producer)
- Gulliver’s Travels (1939) (producer)
- Never Sock a Baby (1939) (producer)
- The Fresh Vegetable Mystery (1939) (producer)
- Yip-Yip-Yippy (1939) (producer)
- It’s the Natural Thing to Do (1939) (producer)
- Hello How Am I (1939) (producer)
- Rhythm on the Reservation (1939) (producer)
- The Barnyard Brat (1939) (producer)
- Ghosks Is the Bunk (1939) (producer)
- The Scared Crows (1939) (producer)
- Wotta Nitemare (1939) (producer)
- Musical Mountaineers (1939) (producer)
- Leave Well Enough Alone (1939) (producer)
- Small Fry (1939/I) (producer)
- Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939) (producer) … aka Popeye Meets Aladin … aka Popeye the Sailor Meets Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
- So Does an Automobile (1939) (producer)
- Customers Wanted (1939) (producer)
- My Friend the Monkey (1939) (producer)
- Always Kickin’ (1939) (producer)
- Cops Is Always Right (1938) (producer)
- Thrills and Chills (1938) (producer)
- On with the New (1938) (producer)
- A Date to Skate (1938) (producer)
- The Playful Polar Bears (1938) (producer)
- Goonland (1938) (producer)
- Sally Swing (1938) (producer)
- Mutiny Ain’t Nice (1938) (producer)
- Buzzy Boop at the Concert (1938) (producer)
- All’s Fair at the Fair (1938) (producer)
- Bulldozing the Bull (1938) (producer)
- Pudgy the Watchman (1938) (producer)
- Beside a Moonlit Stream (1938) (producer)
- Buzzy Boop (1938) (producer)
- The Jeep (1938) (producer)
- Hunky and Spunky (1938) (producer)
- Pudgy and the Lost Kitten (1938) (producer)
- Plumbing Is a ‘Pipe’ (1938) (producer)
- I Yam Lovesick (1938) (producer)
- The Swing School (1938) (producer)
- You Leave Me Breathless (1938) (producer)
- Hold It! (1938) (producer)
- Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh (1938) (producer)
- Out of the Inkwell (1938) (producer)
- Honest Love and True (1938) (producer)
- Thanks for the Memory (1938/I) (producer)
- The House Builder-Upper (1938) (producer)
- The Tears of an Onion (1938) (producer)
- Be Up to Date (1938) (producer)
- Learn Polikeness (1938) (producer)
- Riding the Rails (1938) (producer)
- You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart (1938) (producer)
- Let’s Celebrake (1938) (producer)
- Little Lamby (1937) (producer)
- Zula Hula (1937) (producer)
- Fowl Play (1937) (producer)
- The Foxy Hunter (1937) (producer)
- Magic on Broadway (1937) (producer)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba’s Forty Thieves (1937) (producer)
- Protek the Weakerist (1937) (producer)
- Educated Fish (1937) (producer)
- The New Deal Show (1937) (producer)
- The Football Toucher Downer (1937) (producer)
- Whispers in the Dark (1937) (producer)
- Service with a Smile (1937) (producer)
- I Likes Babies and Infinks (1937) (producer)
- The Candid Candidate (1937) (producer)
- Peeping Penguins (1937) (producer)
- I Never Changes My Altitude (1937) (producer)
- You Came to My Rescue (1937) (producer)
- Ding Dong Doggie (1937) (producer)
- Lost and Foundry (1937) (producer)
- A Car-Tune Portrait (1937) (producer)
- The Impractical Joker (1937) (producer) … aka Grampy & the Impractical Joker (USA)
- Morning, Noon and Night Club (1937) (producer)
- Please Keep Me in Your Dreams (1937) (producer)
- The Twisker Pitcher (1937) (producer)
- Pudgy Picks a Fight (1937) (producer)
- Chicken a La King (1937) (producer)
- Hospitaliky (1937) (producer)
- Pudgy Takes a Bow-wow (1937) (producer)
- Twilight on the Trail (1937) (producer)
- My Artistical Temperature (1937) (producer)
- The Hot Air Salesman (1937) (producer)
- Organ Grinder’s Swing (1937) (producer)
- Bunny Mooning (1937) (producer)
- Whoops! I’m a Cowboy (1937) (producer)
- Never Should Have Told You (1937) (producer)
- The Paneless Window Washer (1937) (producer)
- House Cleaning Blues (1937) (producer)
- I’m in the Army Now (1936) (producer)
- Making Friends (1936) (producer)
- Christmas Comes But Once a Year (1936) (producer)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (1936) (producer)
- Talking Through My Heart (1936) (producer)
- The Spinach Roadster (1936) (producer)
- Be Human (1936) (producer)
- Hold the Wire (1936) (producer)
- Grampy’s Indoor Outing (1936) (producer)
- Play Safe (1936) (producer)
- I Can’t Escape from You (1936) (producer)
- Little Swee’ Pea (1936) (producer) … aka Li’l Swee’ Pea (USA: reissue title) … aka Popeye the Sailor with Li’l Swee’ Pea (USA: complete title)
- Training Pigeons (1936) (producer)
- Hawaiian Birds (1936) (producer)
- Never Kick a Woman (1936) (producer)
- Happy You and Merry Me (1936) (producer)
- The Hills of Wyomin’ (1936) (producer)
- Let’s Get Movin’ (1936) (producer)
- You’re Not Built That Way (1936) (producer)
- Greedy Humpty Dumpty (1936) (producer)
- I Wanna Be a Life Guard (1936) (producer)
- More Pep (1936) (producer)
- I Don’t Want to Make History (1936) (producer)
- A Song a Day (1936) (producer)
- The Cobweb Hotel (1936) (producer)
- What — No Spinach? (1936) (producer)
- Bridge Ahoy! (1936) (producer)
- We Did It (1936) (producer)
- I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski (1936) (producer)
- Betty Boop and Little Jimmy (1936) (producer)
- I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze (1936) (producer)
- The Little Stranger (1936) (producer)
- Brotherly Love (1936) (producer)
- Not Now (1936) (producer)
- A Clean Shaven Man (1936) (producer)
- Betty Boop and the Little King (1936) (producer)
- Little Nobody (1936) (producer)
- No Other One (1936) (producer)
- Somewhere in Dreamland (1936) (producer)
- Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky (1936) (producer)
- It’s Easy to Remember (1935) (producer)
- Betty Boop with Henry (1935) (producer)
- The Spinach Overture (1935) (producer)
- Musical Memories (1935) (producer)
- Adventures of Popeye (1935) (producer)
- Making Stars (1935) (producer)
- King of the Mardi Gras (1935) (producer)
- I Wished on the Moon (1935) (producer)
- Judge for a Day (1935) (producer)
- Time for Love (1935) (producer)
- You Gotta Be a Football Hero (1935) (producer)
- Betty Boop and Grampy (1935) (producer)
- Dizzy Divers (1935) (producer)
- Dancing on the Moon (1935) (producer)
- A Language All My Own (1935) (producer)
- For Better or Worser (1935) (producer)
- A Little Soap and Water (1935) (producer)
- Choose Your ‘Weppins’ (1935) (producer)
- No! No! A Thousand Times No!! (1935) (producer)
- The Kids in the Shoe (1935) (producer)
- The ‘Hyp-Nut-Tist’ (1935) (producer)
- Swat the Fly (1935) (producer)
- Pleased to Meet Cha! (1935) (producer)
- Stop That Noise (1935) (producer)
- The Song of the Birds (1935) (producer)
- Be Kind to ‘Aminals’ (1935) (producer)
- Taking the Blame (1935) (producer)
- Beware of Barnacle Bill (1935) (producer)
- Baby Be Good (1935) (producer)
- An Elephant Never Forgets (1935) (producer)
- We Aim to Please (1934) (producer)
- When My Ship Comes In (1934) (producer)
- The Dance Contest (1934) (producer)
- Keep in Style (1934) (producer)
- Little Dutch Mill (1934) (producer)
- The Two-Alarm Fire (1934) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Prize Show (1934) (producer)
- A Dream Walking (1934) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Little Pal (1934) (producer)
- Axe Me Another (1934) (producer)
- There’s Something About a Soldier (1934) (producer)
- Poor Cinderella (1934) (producer)
- Shiver Me Timbers! (1934) (producer)
- Love Thy Neighbor (1934) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Life Guard (1934) (producer) … aka The Lifeguard
- Strong to the Finich (1934) (producer)
- She Reminds Me of You (1934) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Trial (1934) (producer)
- Shoein’ Hosses (1934) (producer)
- This Little Piggie Went to Market (1934) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934) (producer)
- Can You Take It (1934) (producer)
- Lazy Bones (1934) (producer)
- Betty in Blunderland (1934) (producer)
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze (1934) (producer)
- Tune Up and Sing (1934) (producer)
- Ha! Ha! Ha! (1934) (producer)
- Let’s You and Him Fight (1934) (producer)
- Let’s All Sing Like the Birdies Sing (1934) (producer)
- Red Hot Mama (1934) (producer)
- Sock-a-Bye, Baby (1934) (producer)
- Keeps Rainin’ All the Time (1934) (producer)
- She Wronged Him Right (1934) (producer)
- Wild Elephinks (1933) (producer)
- Seasin’s Greetinks! (1933) (producer)
- Sing, Babies, Sing (1933) (producer)
- Parade of the Wooden Soldiers (1933) (producer)
- I Eats My Spinach (1933) (producer)
- I Like Mountain Music (1933/II) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Halloween Party (1933) (producer)
- Blow Me Down! (1933) (producer)
- Morning, Noon and Night (1933) (producer)
- Boo, Boo, Theme Song (1933) (producer)
- I Yam What I Yam (1933) (producer)
- When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba (1933) (producer)
- I Heard (1933) (producer)
- Stoopnocracy (1933) (producer)
- The Old Man of the Mountain (1933) (producer)
- Down by the Old Mill Stream (1933) (producer)
- Popeye the Sailor (1933) (producer) … aka Popeye the Sailor with Betty Boop (USA)
- Sing, Sisters, Sing! (1933) (producer)
- Mother Goose Land (1933) (producer)
- Boilesk (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Big Boss (1933) (producer)
- Song Shopping (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s May Party (1933) (producer)
- The Peanut Vendor (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Birthday Party (1933) (producer)
- Popular Melodies (1933) (producer)
- Snow-White (1933) (producer) (uncredited)
- Aloha Oe (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Penthouse (1933) (producer)
- Reaching for the Moon (1933) (producer)
- Is My Palm Read (1933) (producer) … aka Professor Bimbo (USA: alternative title)
- Ain’t She Sweet (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Crazy Inventions (1933) (producer)
- Dinah (1933) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Ker-Choo (1933) (producer)
- Time on My Hands (1932) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Museum (1932) (producer)
- Sing a Song (1932) (producer)
- I’ll Be Glad When You’re Dead You Rascal You (1932) (producer)
- When It’s Sleepy Time Down South (1932) (producer)
- Betty Boop for President (1932) (producer)
- Romantic Melodies (1932) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Ups and Downs (1932) (producer)
- School Days (1932/II) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Bamboo Isle (1932) (producer)
- Just a Gigolo (1932) (producer)
- Betty Boop, M.D. (1932) (producer)
- Down Among the Sugar Cane (1932) (producer)
- Betty Boop’s Bizzy Bee (1932) (producer)
- Stopping the Show (1932) (producer)
- Rudy Vallee Melodies (1932) (producer)
- You Try Somebody Else (1932) (producer)
- The Betty Boop Limited (1932) (producer)
- I Ain’t Got Nobody (1932) (producer)
- Admission Free (1932) (producer)
- Hide and Seek (1932) (producer)
- Let Me Call You Sweetheart (1932) (producer)
- Shine on Harvest Moon (1932) (producer)
- A Hunting We Will Go (1932) (producer)
- Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1932) (producer)
- Chess-Nuts (1932) (producer)
- The Dancing Fool (1932) (producer)
- Just One More Chance (1932) (producer)
- Crazy Town (1932) (producer)
- Minnie the Moocher (1932) (producer) (uncredited)
- Swim or Sink (1932) (producer)
- Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1932) (producer)
- When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin’ Along (1932) (producer)
- The Robot (1932) (producer)
- Show Me the Way to Go Home (1932) (producer)
- Boop-Oop-A-Doop (1932) (producer)
- Sweet Jenny Lee (1932) (producer)
- Any Rags (1932) (producer)
- S.O.S. (1932) (producer)
- Russian Lullaby (1931) (producer)
- Dizzy Red Riding Hood (1931) (producer)
- My Baby Cares for Me (1931) (producer)
- Jack and the Beanstalk (1931) (producer)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1931) (producer)
- Mask-A-Raid (1931) (producer)
- Kitty from Kansas City (1931) (producer)
- In the Shade of the Old Applesauce (1931) (producer)
- Little Annie Rooney (1931) (producer)
- Minding the Baby (1931) (producer)
- You’re Driving Me Crazy (1931) (producer)
- Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean (1931) (producer)
- Bimbo’s Express (1931) (producer)
- Betty Co-ed (1931) (producer)
- Bimbo’s Initiation (1931) (producer)
- That Old Gang of Mine (1931) (producer)
- The Herring Murder Case (1931) (producer)
- Twenty Legs Under the Sea (1931) (producer)
- My Wife’s Gone to the Country (1931) (producer)
- And the Green Grass Grew All Around (1931) (producer)
- Silly Scandals (1931) (producer)
- Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1931) (producer)
- The Male Man (1931) (producer)
- Any Little Girl That’s a Nice Little Girl (1931) (producer)
- The Bum Bandit (1931) (producer)
- Somebody Stole My Gal (1931) (producer)
- The Cow’s Husband (1931) (producer)
- I’d Climb the Highest Mountain (1931) (producer)
- Tree Saps (1931) (producer)
- I Wonder Who’s Kissing Her Now (1931) (producer)
- Teacher’s Pest (1931) (producer)
- By the Beautiful Sea (1931) (producer)
- The Ace of Spades (1931) (producer)
- Please Go ‘Way and Let Me Sleep (1931) (producer)
- In My Merry Oldsmobile (1931) (producer)
- Mysterious Mose (1930) (producer)
- Row, Row, Row (1930) (producer)
- On a Sunday Afternoon (1930) (producer)
- Up to Mars (1930) (producer)
- Mariutch (1930) (producer)
- Sky Scraping (1930) (producer)
- My Gal Sal (1930) (producer)
- The Grand Uproar (1930) (producer)
- Strike Up the Band (1930) (producer)
- Swing You Sinners! (1930) (producer)
- The Stein Song (1930) (producer) … aka The Stein Maine Song
- Barnacle Bill (1930) (producer)
- The Glow Worm (1930) (producer)
- Dizzy Dishes (1930) (producer)
- A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight (1930) (producer)
- Wise Flies (1930) (producer)
- In the Good Old Summertime (1930) (producer)
- Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1930) (producer)
- Fire Bugs (1930) (producer)
- Yes! We Have No Bananas (1930) (producer)
- Paloma, La (1930) (producer)
- Hot Dog (1930/I) (producer)
- I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles (1930) (producer)
- Prisoner’s Song (1930) (producer)
- Radio Riot (1930) (producer)
- I’m Afraid to Come Home in the Dark (1930) (producer)
- In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree (1930) (producer)
- Marriage Wows (1930) (producer)
- Bedelia (1930) (producer)
- A Jolt for General Germ (1930) (producer)
- I’ve Got Rings on My Fingers (1929) (producer)
- Accordion Joe (1929) (producer)
- Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet (1929) (producer)
- After the Ball (1929) (producer)
- Noah’s Lark (1929) (producer)
- Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1929) (producer)
- Smiles (1929) (producer)
- My Pony Boy (1929) (producer)
- Goodbye My Lady Love (1929) (producer)
- Chinatown, My Chinatown (1929) (producer)
- Dixie (1929) (producer)
- Chemical Ko-Ko (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Hypnotism (1929) (producer)
- Mother Pin a Rose on Me (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Big Sale (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Harem Scarem (1929) (producer)
- Daisy Bell (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Conquest (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Focus (1929) (producer)
- Ye Olde Melodies (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Knock-Down (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Saxaphonies (1929) (producer)
- Old Black Joe (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Signals (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Crib (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Hot Ink (1929) (producer)
- Yankee Doodle Boy (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Reward (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Beats Time (1929) (producer)
- The Sidewalks of New York (1929) (producer)
- Noise Annoys Ko-Ko (1929) (producer)
- No Eyes Today (1929) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Courtship (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Act (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko on the Track (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Magic (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko in the Rough (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Dog-Gone (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Parade (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Cleans Up (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Big Pull (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Heaves-Ho (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Catch (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Goes Over (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Field Daze (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Squeals (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Lamps Aladdin (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Haunted House (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Hot Dog (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Earth Control (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Tattoo (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Smokes (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Bawth (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Germ Jam (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Kozy Korner (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Kink (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Chase (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s War Dogs (1928) (producer)
- Ko-Ko the Kid (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Quest (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Kicks (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Klock (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Chops Suey (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Explores (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko the Kop (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Hops Off (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko the Knight (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Kane (1927) (producer)
- Ko-Ko Plays Pool (1927) (producer)
- Koko Needles the Boss (1927) (producer)
- Waiting for the Robert E. Lee (1927) (producer)
- Koko the Kavalier (1927) (producer)
- Jingle Bells (1927/II) (producer)
- Koko In 1999 (1927) (producer)
- Koko Makes ‘Em Laugh (1927) (producer)
- Koko Back Tracks (1927) (producer)
- Koko Gets Egg-Cited (1926) (producer)
- Koko the Convict (1926) (producer)
- Koko Kidnapped (1926) (producer)
- Ko-Ko’s Queen (1926) (producer)
- The Fadeaway (1926) (producer)
- By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1926) (producer)
- In the Good Old Summer Time (1926) (producer)
- Oh, You Beautiful Doll (1926) (producer)
- Old Black Joe (1926) (producer)
- Sweet Adeline (1926/II) (producer)
- Koko Hot After It (1926) (producer)
- Toot Toot (1926) (producer)
- Alexander’s Ragtime Band (1926) (producer)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926/II) (producer)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching (1926) (producer)
- It’s the Cats (1926) (producer)
- My Old Kentucky Home (1926/I) (producer)
- Koko at the Circus (1926) (producer)
- Koko’s Paradise (1926) (producer)
- Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly? (1926) (producer)
- Darling Nelly Gray (1926) (producer)
- Dolly Gray (1926) (producer)
- Koko Baffles the Bulls (1926) (producer)
- Annie Laurie (1926) (producer)
- Margie (1926) (producer)
- My Wife’s Gone to the Country (1926) (producer)
- Oh How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning (1926) (producer)
- Old Pal (1926) (producer)
- The Sheik of Araby (1926/I) (producer)
- When I Lost You (1926) (producer)
- When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam’ (1926) (producer)
- Yak-A-Hula-Hick-A-Doola (1926) (producer)
- Sailing Sailing (1925) (producer)
- Koko Steps Out (1925) (producer)
- Koko’s Thanksgiving (1925) (producer)
- Dixie (1925) (producer)
- Koko Eats (1925) (producer)
- Koko Packs ‘Em (1925) (producer) … aka Koko Packs Up (USA)
- Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye (1925) (producer)
- Nutcracker Suite (1925) (producer)
- Koko on the Run (1925) (producer)
- My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean (1925) (producer)
- My Bonnie (1925) (producer)
- Koko Nuts (1925) (producer)
- Koko Celebrates the Fourth (1925) (producer)
- Koko Sees Spooks (1925) (producer)
- Daisy Bell (1925) (producer)
- Koko Trains ‘Em (1925) (producer) … aka Koko Trains Animals (USA)
- Swanee River (1925) (producer) … aka The Suwanee River (USA)
- The Storm (1925) (producer)
- I Love a Lassie (1925) (producer)
- Big Chief Koko (1925) (producer)
- Koko the Barber (1925) (producer)
- Koko In Toyland (1925) (producer)
- Old Folks at Home (1925) (producer)
- Comin’ Thro’ the Rye (1925) (producer)
- East Side, West Side (1925/I) (producer)
- Koko the Hot Shot (1925) (producer)
- Oh, Suzanna (1925) (producer)
- Pack Up Your Troubles (1925) (producer)
- Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1925) (producer)
- The Cure (1924) (producer)
- Sparring Partners (1924) (producer)
- League of Nations (1924) (producer)
- Vaudeville (1924) (producer)
- Vacation (1924) (producer)
- Goodbye My Lady Love (1924) (producer)
- Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me (1924) (producer)
- The Runaway (1924) (producer)
- Oh Mabel (1924) (producer)
- Clay Town (1924) (producer)
- A Stitch in Time (1924) (producer)
- A Trip to Mars (1924) (producer)
- Mother Gooseland (1924) (producer)
- Come Take a Trip in My Airship (1924) (producer)
- The Cartoon Factory (1924) (producer)
- Masquerade (1924) (producer)
- Carrie of the Chorus (1924) (producer)
- The Laundry (1923) (producer)
- Bed Time (1923) (producer)
- Shadows (1923) (producer)
- The Fortune Teller (1923) (producer)
- Balloons (1923) (producer)
- False Alarm (1923) (producer)
- The Battle (1923) (producer)
- Trapped (1923) (producer)
- The Puzzle (1923) (producer)
- Surprise (1923) (producer)
- The Einstein Theory of Relativity (1923) (producer)
- The Contest (1923) (producer)
- Darwin’s Theory of Evolution (1923) (producer)
- Jumping Beans (1922) (producer)
- The Birthday (1922) (producer)
- The Reunion (1922) (producer)
- The Show (1922/I) (producer)
- The Challenge (1922/I) (producer)
- Pay Day (1922/II) (producer)
- Flies (1922) (producer)
- Bubbles (1922) (producer)
- The Mosquito (1922) (producer)
- The Dresden Doll (1922) (producer) … aka The Dancing Doll
- The Fish (1922) (producer)
- The Hypnotist (1921/II) (producer)
- Invisible Ink (1921) (producer)
- November (1921) (producer)
- Fishing (1921) (producer)
- Modeling (1921) (producer)
- The Automobile Ride (1921) (producer)
- Cartoonland (1921) (producer)
- First Man to the Moon (1921) (producer)
- The Restaurant (1920) (producer)
- Perpetual Motion (1920) (producer)
- Poker (1920) (producer) … aka The Card Game
- The Clown’s Little Brother (1920) (producer)
- The Ouija Board (1920) (producer)
- The Circus (1920/I) (producer)
- The Chinaman (1920) (producer)
- The Boxing Kangaroo (1920) (producer)
- Slides (1919) (producer)
- Out of the Inkwell (1919/II) (producer)
- The Tantalizing Fly (1919) (producer)
- The Clown’s Pups (1919) (producer)
- Out of the Inkwell (1919/I) (producer)
- Experiment No. 3 (1919) (producer)
- Experiment No. 2 (1919) (producer)
- Experiment No. 1 (1918) (producer)
- Out of the Inkwell (1918) (producer)
- Writer – filmography (1920s) (1910s)
- Now You’re Talking (1927) (scenario) … aka Tale of the Upright Telephone (USA)
- The Automobile Ride (1921)
- Cartoonland (1921)
- The Restaurant (1920)
- Perpetual Motion (1920)
- Poker (1920) … aka The Card Game
- The Clown’s Little Brother (1920)
- The Ouija Board (1920)
- The Circus (1920/I)
- The Chinaman (1920)
- The Boxing Kangaroo (1920)
- Slides (1919)
- The Tantalizing Fly (1919) (written by)
- The Clown’s Pups (1919)
- Director – filmography (1940s) (1930s) (1920s) (1910s)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1948)
- A Coach for Cinderella (1936)
- Betty Boop’s Life Guard (1934) … aka The Lifeguard
- Finding His Voice (1929)
- It’s the Cats (1926)
- The Cartoon Factory (1924)
- Bed Time (1923)
- Evolution (1923) … aka Evolutie (Belgium: Flemish title)
- The Ouija Board (1920)
- Hello Mars (1920)
- All Aboard for the Moon (1920) … aka All Aboard for a Trip to the Moon (USA)
- The Tantalizing Fly (1919)
- Actor – filmography (1930s) (1920s) (1910s)
- More Pep (1936) (voice) …. Uncle Max
- Bubbles (1922)
- Perpetual Motion (1920)
- The Tantalizing Fly (1919)
- Himself – filmography (1930s) (1920s)
- Popular Science (1939/II) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Betty Boop’s Rise to Fame (1934) …. Himself
- Ko-Ko’s Hot Ink (1929) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Ko-Ko’s Reward (1929) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Ko-Ko’s Courtship (1928) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Ko-Ko the Kid (1927) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Ko-Ko Hops Off (1927) (uncredited) …. Himself
- Mother Gooseland (1924) …. Himself