Dave Fleischer
Known For: Directing
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: July 14, 1894
Day of Death: June 25, 1979 (85 years old)
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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.
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Director
The Magnetic Telescope
Director
Billion Dollar Limited
Director
The Arctic Giant
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The Bulleteers
Director
Electric Earthquake
Director
Volcano
Director
Terror on the Midway
Director
The Raven
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Kickin' the Conga Round
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Baby Wants a Bottleship
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Many Tanks
Director
Fleets of Stren'th
Director
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Director
Blunder Below
Director
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Producer
Song of Victory
Director
The Vacationers' Paradise
Producer
The Gullible Canary
1941
Director
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Director
The Mechanical Monsters
Director
Superman
Director
Child Psykolojiky
Director
Nix on Hypnotricks
Director
Pest Pilot
Director
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
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Quiet! Pleeze
Director
Problem Pappy
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The Mighty Navy
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Olive's Boithday Presink
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Vitamin Hay
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I'll Never Crow Again
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Flies Ain't Human
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Two for the Zoo
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Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
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All's Well
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Fire Cheese
Director
Gabby Goes Fishing
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Swing Cleaning
Director
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
Director
Twinkletoes Gets the Bird
Director
The Wizard of Arts
Director
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch in Triple Trouble
Director
Twinkletoes in Hat Stuff
Director
Zero the Hound
Director
Copy Cat
Director
Twinkletoes - Where He Goes Nobody Knows
Writer
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
1940
Director
The Ugly Dino
Director
Granite Hotel
Director
Females Is Fickle
Director
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
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You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
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Ants in the Plants
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A Kick in Time
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Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh
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Springtime in the Rock Age
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The Dandy Lion
Director
The Fulla Bluff Man
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Mommy Loves Puppy
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Way Back When a Triangle Had Its Points
Director
Pedagogical Institution (College to You)
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Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit
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The Foul Ball Player
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Bring Himself Back Alive
Director
Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
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Wedding Belts
Director
Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick
Director
Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse
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Doing Impossikible Stunts
Director
Popeye Meets William Tell
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The Constable
Director
Puttin on the Act
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Little Lambkins
Director
Shakespearian Spinach
Director
Snubbed by a Snob
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Fightin Pals
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Onion Pacific
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Me Feelins is Hurt
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King for a Day
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Nurse-Mates
Director
Stealin Aint Honest
Director
Wimmin is a Myskery
Director
My Pop, My Pop
Director
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Director
Poopdeck Pappy
1939
Director
Gulliver's Travels
Director
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Director
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Director
Musical Mountaineers
Director
Rhythm on the Reservation
Director
My Friend the Monkey
Director
Small Fry
Director
So Does an Automobile
Director
The Scared Crows
Director
Wotta Nitemare
Director
It's the Natural Thing to Do
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Ghosks Is the Bunk
Director
Leave Well Enough Alone
Director
Hello How Am I
Director
Yip-Yip-Yippy
Director
Customers Wanted
Director
The Barnyard Brat
Director
Always Kickin'
Director
Never Sock a Baby
1938
Director
Out of the Inkwell
Director
Goonland
Director
A Date to Skate
Director
On with the New
Director
All's Fair at the Fair
Director
I Yam Love Sick
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Be Up to Date
Director
Thrills and Chills
Director
Buzzy Boop
Director
Pudgy the Watchman
Director
Sally Swing
Director
Honest Love and True
Director
Hunky and Spunky
Director
The Tears of an Onion
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Pudgy and the Lost Kitten
Director
The Swing School
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Riding the Rails
Director
Cops Is Always Right
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Hold It!
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
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Let's Celebrake
Director
The House Builder-Upper
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The Jeep
Director
The Playful Polar Bears
Director
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Director
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Director
Learn Polikeness
Director
Bulldozing the Bull
Director
You Took the Words Right Out of My Heart
Director
You Leave Me Breathless
Director
Thanks for the Memory
Director
Buzzy Boop at the Concert
Director
Beside a Moonlit Stream
1937
Director
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Director
Never Should Have Told You
Director
The Hot Air Salesman
Director
The Candid Candidate
Director
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Director
Pudgy Takes a Bow-Wow
Director
Educated Fish
Director
A Car-Tune Portrait
Director
The Paneless Window Washer
Director
Bunny Mooning
Director
Whispers in the Dark
Director
Please Keep Me in Your Dreams
Director
The Foxy Hunter
Director
Twilight on the Trail
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The New Deal Show
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Whoops! I'm a Cowboy
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Ding Dong Doggie
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Service with a Smile
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House Cleaning Blues
Director
Zula Hula
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The Impractical Joker
Director
The Twisker Pitcher
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Chicken a la King
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Protek the Weakerist
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My Artistical Temperature
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Peeping Penguins
Director
Organ Grinder's Swing
Director
The Football Toucher Downer
Director
Hospitaliky
Director
Fowl Play
Director
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Director
I Never Changes My Altitude
Director
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Director
Lost and Foundry
Director
Little Lamby
Director
Magic on Broadway
Director
You Came to My Rescue
1936
Director
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
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The Cobweb Hotel
Director
I Feel Like a Feather in the Breeze
Director
Talking Through My Heart
Director
Betty Boop and Little Jimmy
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Betty Boop and the Little King
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A Song a Day
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We Did It
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Not Now
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Training Pigeons
Director
You're Not Built That Way
Director
Somewhere in Dreamland
Director
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Director
Greedy Humpty Dumpty
Director
Hold the Wire
Director
Let's Get Movin'
Director
The Little Stranger
Director
Brotherly Love
Director
Hawaiian Birds
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I Wanna Be a Life Guard
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Bridge Ahoy!
Director
Little Swee'pea
Director
A Clean Shaven Man
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What -- No Spinach?
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Never Kick a Woman
Director
Play Safe
Director
Grampy's Indoor Outing
Director
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Director
The Spinach Roadster
Director
No Other One
Director
I Don't Want to Make History
Director
I Can't Escape from You
Director
More Pep
Director
Happy You and Merry Me
Director
Making Friends
Director
I'm in the Army Now
Director
Be Human
Director
Little Nobody
Director
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Director
The Hills of Old Wyomin'
Director of Operations
Popeye au pays des 1001 nuits
1935
Director
Taking the Blame
Director
Musical Memories
Director
The Kids in the Shoe
Director
I Wished on the Moon
Director
Betty Boop with Henry the Funniest Living American
Director
Swat the Fly
Director
Making Stars
Director
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Director
A Little Soap and Water
Director
Stop That Noise
Director
A Language All My Own
Director
Judge for a Day
Director
Adventures of Popeye
Director
Baby Be Good
Director
Betty Boop and Grampy
Director
You Gotta Be a Football Hero
Director
Time for Love
Director
Be Kind to 'Aminals'
Director
The Hyp-Nut-Tist
Director
An Elephant Never Forgets
Director
Pleased to Meet Cha!
Director
Choose Your 'Weppins'
Director
The Spinach Overture
Director
King of the Mardi Gras
Director
The Song of the Birds
Director
Beware of Barnacle Bill
Director
Dancing on the Moon
Director
Dizzy Divers
Director
For Better or Worser
Director
It's Easy to Remember
Writer
King of the Mardi Gras
Director
Never Say Never
1934
Director
Poor Cinderella
Director
Betty Boop's Trial
Director
Strong to the Finich
Director
Can You Take It
Director
This Little Piggie Went to Market
Director
There's Something About a Soldier
Director
Keep in Style
Director
Betty Boop's Little Pal
Director
Betty Boop's Life Guard
Director
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
Director
Betty Boop's Rise to Fame
Director
When My Ship Comes In
Director
Red Hot Mamma
Director
She Wronged Him Right
Director
Betty Boop's Prize Show
Director
Lazy Bones
Director
Let's Sing with Popeye
Director
She Reminds Me of You
Director
Love Thy Neighbor
Director
Little Dutch Mill
Director
We Aim to Please
Director
A Dream Walking
Director
Shiver Me Timbers!
Director
The Two-Alarm Fire
Director
Betty in Blunderland
Director
Sock-a-Bye, Baby
Director
Let's You and Him Fight
Director
Ha! Ha! Ha!
Director
The Dance Contest
Director
Shoein' Hosses
Director
Axe Me Another
Director
Let's All Sing Like the Birdies Sing
Director
Tune Up and Sing
Director
Keeps Rainin' All the Time
1933
Director
Snow-White
Director
Popeye the Sailor
Director
I Yam What I Yam
Director
Stoopnocracy
Director
The Old Man of the Mountain
Director
I Eats My Spinach
Director
Mother Goose Land
Director
Blow Me Down!
Director
Wild Elephinks
Director
Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
Director
Seasin's Greetinks!
Director
Betty Boop's Ker-Choo
Director
Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions
Director
Dinah
Director
Betty Boop's May Party
Director
Ain't She Sweet
Director
Betty Boop's Birthday Party
Director
Morning, Noon and Night
Director
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Director
Betty Boop's Hallowe'en Party
Director
Is My Palm Read
Director
I Heard
Director
Popular Melodies
Director
Boilesk
Director
Betty Boop's Big Boss
Director
Reaching for the Moon
Director
The Peanut Vendor
Director
I Like Mountain Music
Director
When Yuba Plays the Rumba on the Tuba
Director
Sing, Sisters, Sing!
Director
Sing, Babies, Sing!
Director
Aloha Oe
Director
Song Shopping
Director
Boo, Boo, Theme Song!
Director
Down by the Old Mill Stream
1932
Director
Minnie the Moocher
Director
Down Among the Sugar Cane
Director
Romantic Melodies
Director
Betty Boop's Museum
Director
Boop-Oop-A-Doop
Director
Crazy-Town
Director
Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle
Director
A Hunting We Will Go
Director
Chess-Nuts
Director
Any Rags
Director
Betty Boop's Ups and Downs
Director
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Director
S.O.S.
Director
Betty Boop, M.D.
Director
Betty Boop for President
Director
The Dancing Fool
Director
I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You
Director
Admission Free
Director
Betty Boop's Bizzy Bee
Director
I Ain't Got Nobody
Director
You Try Somebody Else
Director
Just a Gigolo
Director
Time on My Hands
Director
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
Director
Rudy Vallee Melodies
Director
The Betty Boop Limited
Director
Stopping the Show
Director
The Robot
Director
Hide and Seek
Director
School Days
Director
Sleepy Time Down South
Director
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie
Director
Just One More Chance
Director
Shine on Harvest Moon
Director
Sing a Song
Director
When the Red, Red, Robin Comes Bob, Bob Bobbin' Along
Director
Sweet Jennie Lee
Director
Show Me the Way to Go Home
1931
Director
Ace of Spades
Director
Dizzy Red Riding-Hood
Director
Minding the Baby
Director
The Male Man
Director
Bimbo's Express
Director
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Director
The Herring Murder Case
Director
Silly Scandals
Director
Jack and the Beanstalk
Director
Betty Co-ed
Director
I'd Climb the Highest Mountain
Director
Kitty from Kansas City
Director
Any Little Girl That's a Nice Little Girl
Director
That Old Gang of Mine
Director
Twenty Legs Under the Sea
Director
Little Annie Rooney
Director
Mask-A-Raid
Director
The Bum Bandit
Director
Tree Saps
Director
Teacher's Pest
Director
Bimbo's Initiation
Director
My Wife's Gone to the Country
Director
The Cow's Husband
Director
You're Driving Me Crazy
Director
Russian Lullaby
Director
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Director
My Baby Just Cares for Me
Director
Please Go 'Way and Let Me Sleep
Director
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Director
I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now
Director
And the Green Grass Grew All Around
Director
Somebody Stole My Gal
Director
By the Beautiful Sea
Director
Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean
Director
In the Shade of the Old Applesauce
Director
Texas in 1999
Director
Suited to a T.
Director
Step On It
1930
Director
The Glow Worm
Director
Swing You Sinners!
Director
Mysterious Mose
Director
In the Good Old Summertime
Director
I'm Afraid to Come Home in the Dark
Director
A Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight
Director
La Paloma
Director
In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree
Director
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Director
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
Director
The Stein Song
Director
Grand Uproar
Director
My Gal Sal
Director
Fire Bugs
Director
Mariutch
Director
Strike Up the Band
Director
Wise Flies
Director
Radio Riot
Director
Bedelia
Director
Sky Scraping
Director
Up to Mars
Director
Hot Dog
Director
Dizzy Dishes
Director
Barnacle Bill
Director
Accordion Joe
Director
I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles
Director
Row, Row, Row
Director
Prisoner's Song
Director
On a Sunday Afternoon
1929
Actor Himself
Ko-Ko's Conquest
Actor
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
Director
Ko-Ko's Conquest
Director
Chinatown, My Chinatown
Director
Noah's Lark
Director
After the Ball
Director
Ko-Ko's Reward
Director
Oh, You Beautiful Doll
Director
I've Got Rings on My Fingers
Director
Put on Your Old Gray Bonnet
Director
Ko-Ko's Hypnotism
Director
Ko-Ko's Harem Scarem
Director
Ko-Ko's Focus
Director
Chemical Ko-Ko
Director
Ko-Ko's Hot Ink
Director
Ko-Ko's Big Sale
Director
Smiles
Director
Ye Olde Melodies
Director
Yankee Doodle Boy
Director
Noise Annoys Ko-Ko
Director
No Eyes Today
Director
Marriage Wows
Director
Old Black Joe
Director
Daisy Bell
Director
Dixie
Director
Ko-Ko's Crib
Director
My Pony Boy
Director
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
Director
Ko-Ko's Signals
Director
Ko-Ko's Saxaphonies
Director
Ko-Ko's Knock Down
Director
Goodbye My Lady Love
1928
Actor Second Cartoonist (uncredited)
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
Director
Ko-Ko's War Dogs
Director
KoKo's Earth Control
Director
Ko-Ko's Catch
Director
Ko-Ko's Haunted House
Director
Ko-Ko's Magic
Director
Ko-Ko's Tattoo
Director
Ko-Ko's Courtship
Director
Inklings No. 10
Director
KoKo Lamps Aladdin
Director
Ko-Ko's Kink
Director
Ko-Ko Squeals
Director
Koko's Field Daze
Director
Ko-Ko's Hot Dog
Director
KoKo's Parade
Director
KoKo's Kozy Korner
Director
Ko-Ko's Germ Jam
Director
Ko-Ko's Dog-Gone
Director
Ko-Ko's Chase
Director
Ko-Ko's Big Pull
Director
Ko-Ko's Bawth
Director
Ko-Ko's Act
Director
Ko-Ko on the Track
Director
Ko-Ko in the Rough
Director
Ko-Ko Heaves-Ho
Director
Ko-Ko Goes Over
Director
Ko-Ko Cleans Up
1927
Director
Koko Chops Suey
Director
Inklings, Issue ??
Director
Now You're Talking
Director
Koko Needles the Boss
Director
Koko Back Tracks
Director
Ko-Ko Hops Off
Director
Ko-Ko the Kid
Director
Ko-Ko Makes 'Em Laugh
Director
Koko Plays Pool
Director
Koko’s Kane
Director
Ko-Ko the Knight
Director
KoKo Explores
Director
KoKo the Kop
Director
Jingle Bells
Director
Koko in 1999
Director
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Director
KoKo's Klock
Director
Inklings, Issue Unknown
Director
Waiting for the Robert E. Lee
Director
Tumbledown Shack in Athlone
Director
The Rocky Road to Dublin
Director
Oh I Wish I Was in Michigan
Director
That Little Big Fellow
Director
Koko the Kavalier
Director
Koko's Quest
Director
KoKo Kicks
Director
Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon
1926
Director
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching
Director
Fadeaway
Director
Koko the Convict
Director
Darling Nelly Gray
Director
Margie
Director
My Old Kentucky Home
Director
Comin' Thro' the Rye
Director
Sweet Adeline
Director
Ko-Ko's Queen
Animation
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp the Boys Are Marching
Director
Koko's Paradise
Animation
Koko's Paradise
Director
Koko's Toot Toot
Animation
Koko's Toot Toot
Director
In the Good Old Summer Time
Director
Ko-Ko Smokes
Animation
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Director
Koko Gets Egg-Cited
Director
Koko Baffles the Bulls
Director
Koko Hot After It
Director
It's the Cat's
Director
When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'
Director
Koko at the Circus
Director
Another Bottle, Doctor
Director
'Morning, Judge
Director
The Sheik of Araby
Director
Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?
Director
Yak-A-Doola-Hick-A-Doola
Director
When I Lost You
Director
When I Leave This World Behind
Director
Toot Toot Tootsie
Director
Ta-Ra-Ra-Boom-Dee-Aye
Director
Pack Up Your Troubles
Director
Old Black Joe
Director
Oh What a Pal Was Mary
Director
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
Director
My Wife's Gone to the Country
Director
Micky
Director
Koko Kidnapped
Director
I Love a Lassie
Director
Finiculee Fincula
Director
Everybody's Doing It
Director
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Director
For Me and My Gal
Director
I Love to Fall Asleep
Director
My Sweetie
Director
Beautiful Eyes
1925
Director
Koko Packs 'Em
Director
Inklings, Issue 12
Director
Koko Trains 'Em
Director
Koko Celebrates the Fourth
Director
Koko the Hot Shot
Director
Ko-Ko on the Run
Director
Ko-Ko in Thanksgiving
Director
Koko Nuts
Director
Koko Sees Spooks
Director
Big Chief Koko
Animation
Big Chief Koko
Director
Ko-Ko the Barber
Director
Koko in Toyland
Animation
Koko in Toyland
Director
Thaddeus and Arline
Director
The Sidewalks of New York
Director
Sailing, Sailing, Over the Bounding Main
Director
Old Pal
Director
Old Folks at Home
Director
Oh, Suzanna
Director
Nutcracker Suite
Director
My Bonnie
Director
Koko Steps Out
Director
Koko Eats
Director
East Side, West Side
Director
Dixie
Director
Daisy Bell
1924
Director
Cartoon Factory
Director
Trip to Mars
Director
The Cure
Director
Masquerade
Director
Vacation
Director
Come Take a Trip in My Airship
Director
The Runaway
Director
League of Nations
Director
Sparring Partner
Director
The Storm
Director
Vaudeville
Director
Mother Gooseland
Director
Oh Mabel
Animation
Cartoon Factory
Animation
Trip to Mars
Animation
The Storm
Animation
Vaudeville
Director
Clay Town
Director
Mother, Mother, Mother Pin a Rose on Me
Director
The Laundry
Director
Goodbye My Lady Love
Director
Koko's Big Catch
