FILM DIRECTOR

Max Fleischer

1883 - 1972

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Max Fleischer (born Majer Fleischer ; July 19, 1883 – September 11, 1972) was a Polish-American animator and studio owner. Born in Kraków, 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". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Fleischer has received more than 1,238,587 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Max Fleischer is the 823rd most popular film director (down from 519th in 2019), the 833rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 567th in 2019) and the 20th most popular Polish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Max Fleischer ranks 823 out of 2,041. Before him are Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, Andrew Davis, Urban Gad, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Ernest B. Schoedsack. After him are Julio Medem, Eduard Tisse, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, Gordon Douglas, Hal Roach, and Gianni Amelio.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Max Fleischer ranks 166. Before him are Sylvanus Morley, Thubten Choekyi Nyima, 9th Panchen Lama, Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount Alanbrooke, Hjalmar Bergman, William J. Donovan, and Alfred Saalwächter. After him are Abel Bonnard, Charles Demuth, Şemsettin Günaltay, Pedro Parages, Paul Götz, and Ahmet Ali Çelikten. Among people deceased in 1972, Max Fleischer ranks 146. Before him are Marianne Moore, Louis J. Mordell, Hermann Boehm, Vera Inber, Edgar G. Ulmer, and Balys Dvarionas. After him are Erwin Stresemann, Vera Karalli, Markos Vamvakaris, Bernabé Ferreyra, Romas Kalanta, and Roger Courtois.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Max Fleischer ranks 833 out of 1,694. Before him are Małgorzata Braunek (1947), Michał Gedeon Radziwiłł (1778), Gustaw Herling-Grudziński (1919), Simonas Daukantas (1793), Frederick Jagiellon (1468), and Jan Śniadecki (1756). After him are Eva-Maria Hagen (1934), Zygmunt Maszczyk (1945), Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński (1921), Andrzej Lepper (1954), Konstantin Kalinin (1887), and Aleksander Kakowski (1862).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Max Fleischer ranks 20. Before him are Jerzy Hoffman (1932), Paweł Pawlikowski (1957), Andrzej Munk (1921), Wojciech Has (1925), Rudolph Maté (1898), and Boris Kaufman (1906). After him are Wanda Jakubowska (1907), Dariusz Wolski (1956), Janusz Kamiński (1959), Zbigniew Rybczyński (1949), Kazimierz Kutz (1929), and Juliusz Machulski (1955).

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