| Friz Freleng | |
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| Born | Isadore Freleng August 21, 1906 Kansas City, Missouri U.S. |
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| Spouse(s) | Lily Freleng |
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (August 21, 1906[1] – May 26, 1995) was an animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 1906 ( MCMVI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common year starting Events 451 - The Battle of Avarayr between Armenian rebels and the Sassanid Empire takes place Year 1995 ( MCMXCV) was a Common year starting on Sunday. Events of 1995 An animator is an Artist who creates multiple images called frames and Key frames that form an illusion of movement called Animation when rapidly displayed A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes A film director, or filmmaker, is a person who directs the making of a Film. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 Merrie Melodies is the name of a series of animated cartoons distributed by Warner Bros The word cartoon has various meanings based on several very different forms of Visual art and Illustration. Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros Sylvester J Pussycat Sr, or simply Sylvester the Cat, or Sylvester is a Fictional character, a three-time Academy Award -winning Anthropomorphic Yosemite Sam is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico " is an animated cartoon Mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards. Warner Bros Cartoons Inc was the Animation division of Warner Bros The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s. David Hudson DePatie (b May 26, 1935) was the last executive in charge of the original classic Warner Brothers cartoon studio and was charged with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE was a Hollywood-based American animated production company active from 1963 to 1981 The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of DePatie-Freleng animated cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s prominently by David H A Saturday morning cartoon is the colloquial term for the animated television programming which was typically scheduled on Saturday mornings on the major American The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989.
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Early career
Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at United Film Ad Service. Kansas City Missouri only Items for the metro area Kansas City Kansas or North Kansas City MO should go on their respective pages Missouri ( or) is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee There, he made the acquaintance of fellow animators Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks. Hugh Harman ( August 31, 1903 &ndash November 25, 1982) and Rudolf "Rudy" Ising ( August 7, 1903 &ndash Ub Iwerks, ASC ( Ubbe Ert Iwwerks) ( 24 March 1901 &ndash 7 July 1971) was a two-time Academy Award winning In 1923, Iwerks' friend Walt Disney moved to Hollywood, put out a call for his Kansas City colleagues to join him. Walter Elias Disney (December 5 1901 – December 15 1966 was a multiple Academy Award -winning American Film producer, director, Screenwriter Freleng, however, held out until 1927, when he finally moved to California and join the Disney studio. He worked alongside other former Kansas City animators, including Iwerks, Harman, Carmen Maxwell, and Rudolph Ising. Carman Griffin "Max" Maxwell (1902 - 1987 was an American Animator and Voice actor. Hugh Harman ( August 31, 1903 &ndash November 25, 1982) and Rudolf "Rudy" Ising ( August 7, 1903 &ndash While at Disney's Freleng worked on the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit cartoons for producers Margaret Winkler and Charles Mintz. The "Alice Comedies" are a series of Animated cartoons created by Walt Disney in the 1920s in which Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is an Anthropomorphic Rabbit Animated cartoon character created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films Margaret J Winkler (or M J Winkler) was one of the key figures in silent animation history, having a crucial role to play in the histories of Max and Charles B Mintz ( November 5, 1889 – December 30, 1939) was an American Film producer and distributor who took control
Freleng soon teamed up with Harman and Ising to try to create their own studio. The trio produced a pilot film starring a new Mickey Mouse-like character named Bosko. Mickey Mouse is a comic animal Cartoon character who has become an icon for The Walt Disney Company. Bosko is an animated Cartoon character created by Animators Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising. Looking at unemployment if the cartoon failed to generate interest, Freleng moved to New York City to work on Mintz' Krazy Kat cartoons, all the while still trying to sell the Harman-Ising Bosko picture. The City of New York Krazy Kat is a Comic strip created by George Herriman that appeared in U The cartoon finally sold to Leon Schlesinger, who soon secured Harman and Ising to star Bosko in the Looney Tunes series he was producing for Warner Bros. Freleng soon moved back to California to work with Harman and Ising once again. Leon Schlesinger ( May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American Film producer, most noted for founding Looney Tunes is a Warner Bros Animated cartoon series which ran in many movie theatres from 1930 to 1969 Warner Bros Entertainment Inc (or Warner Bros, Warner Bros Pictures) is one of the world's largest producers of Film and
Freleng as director
Early Schlesinger cartoons
Harman and Ising left Schlesinger's studio over disputes about budgets in 1933. Schlesinger was left with no experienced directors, and therefore lured Freleng away from Harman-Ising to successfully fix cartoons directed by Tom Palmer which Warner Bros rejected. The young animator became Schlesinger's top director, and he introduced the studio's first true post-Bosko star, Porky Pig, in the 1935 film I Haven't Got a Hat. Porky Pig is an animated cartoon character in the Warner Bros I Haven't Got a Hat is a 1935 Animated Short film, directed by Isadore (Friz Freleng for Leon Schlesinger Productions The film is notable for being one of the earliest examples of characterization in a cartoon. Porky was a distinctive character, unlike Bosko or his replacement, Buddy. Buddy is an animated Cartoon character in the Warner Bros Looney Tunes series of cartoons
MGM
In 1937, Freleng left Schlesinger's after accepting an increase in salary to direct for the new Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio headed by Fred Quimby. The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio was the in-house division of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM motion picture studio in Hollywood California, responsible for producing __forcetoc__ Frederick C "Fred" Quimby ( July 31, 1883 &ndash September 16 1965) was the producer in charge of the To Freleng's chagrin, he found he would be working on The Captain and the Kids, adapted from the popular comic strip The Katzenjammer Kids. A comic strip is a sequence of drawings that tells a story Currently in the Western world, most comic strips are written and drawn by a Comics artist The series failed to achieve much success, much as Freleng had predicted—though skillfully animated, the characters could not compete with the "funny animals" that prevailed at the time. Funny animal is a Cartooning term for the Genre of Comics and Animated cartoons in which the main characters are Humanoid or
Back with Schlesinger and Warner Bros.
Freleng happily returned to Warner Bros. when his contract ended in 1940. One of the first Looney Tunes directed by Freleng during his second tenure at the studio was You Ought to Be in Pictures, a short which blended animation with live-action footage of the Warner Bros. You Ought to Be in Pictures is a 1940 Warner Bros Looney Tunes Short film featuring Porky Pig and Daffy Duck studio (and of Schlesinger veterans such as story man Michael Maltese and even "Leon" himself). Michael Maltese ( February 6, 1908 — February 22, 1981) was a long-time Storyboard artist and Screenwriter for classic The plot, which centers around Porky Pig being tricked by Daffy Duck into terminating his contract with Schlesinger to attempt a career in features, echoes Freleng's experience in moving to MGM.
Directorial achievements
Schlesinger's hands-off attitude toward his animators allowed Freleng and his fellow directors almost complete creative control and room to experiment with cartoon comedy styles, which allowed the studio to keep pace with the Disney studio's technical superiority. Freleng's style quickly matured, and he became a master of comic timing. Comic timing is use of rhythm and tempo to enhance Comedy and Humor. He also introduced or redesigned a number of famous Warner characters, including Yosemite Sam in 1945, the cat-and-bird duo, Sylvester and Tweety in 1947, and Speedy Gonzales in 1955. Yosemite Sam is an animated cartoon character in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons produced by Sylvester J Pussycat Sr, or simply Sylvester the Cat, or Sylvester is a Fictional character, a three-time Academy Award -winning Anthropomorphic Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico " is an animated cartoon Mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes
Freleng and Chuck Jones would dominate the Warner Bros. Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones ( September 21, 1912 &ndash February 22, 2002) was an American Animator, studio in the years after World War II, Freleng largely concentrating on the above mentioned characters and Bugs Bunny. World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including Clyde Rabbit (uncleMrs Bugs Bunny (wifePapa Bunny (fatherMama Bunny (motherRugs Bunny Nearly all of the Bugs Bunny cartoons pitting the rabbit against Yosemite Sam in various historical time periods were directed by Freleng, plus some of Bugs' cartoons with Elmer Fudd and/or Daffy Duck or with gangsters Rocky and Mugsy. Freleng also directed cartoons with the Goofy Gophers (most notably those with the polite rodents trying to retrieve their natural property in a processing factory), cartoons with Sylvester being pursued by a pair of dogs, Spike and Chester, several of the cartoons involving a drunken stork, a number of cartoons in which insects act in military unison to battle a human character, cartoons with characters Daffy Duck or Yosemite Sam marrying for money, and three cartoons, with Bugs Bunny, Sylvester, Tweety, that spoof "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde". Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is a Novella written by the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886
Freleng also continued to produce modernized versions of the musical comedies he animated in his early career, such as The Three Little Bops (1957) and Pizzacato Pussycat (1955). Three Little Bops is a 1957 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng, with voices by Stan Freberg and music by Jazz composer/trumpeter Freleng won four Oscars during his time at Warner Bros. , for the films Tweetie Pie (1947), Speedy Gonzales (1955), Knighty Knight Bugs (1958) and Birds Anonymous (1957). Tweetie Pie is a 1947 Merrie Melodies cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and produced by Warner Bros Speedy Gonzales, "the fastest mouse in all Mexico " is an animated cartoon Mouse from the Warner Brothers Looney Tunes Knighty Knight Bugs is a 1958 Looney Tunes cartoon directed by Friz Freleng and released by Warner Bros Birds Anonymous is a 1957, Academy Award -winning Merrie Melodies animated short directed by Friz Freleng and written And other Freleng cartoons such as Sandy Claws (1955), Mexicali Shmoes (1959), Mouse and Garden (1960), and The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961) were Oscar nominees. Mexicali Shmoes is a 1959 Looney Tunes Cartoon directed by Friz Freleng.
DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
After the Warner studio closed in 1963, Freleng rented the same space from Warners to create cartoons with his now-former boss, producer Dave DePatie (the final producer hired by Warners to oversee the cartoon division), forming DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. A film producer is a person who creates the conditions for making movies. David Hudson DePatie (b May 26, 1935) was the last executive in charge of the original classic Warner Brothers cartoon studio and was charged with DePatie-Freleng Enterprises (DFE was a Hollywood-based American animated production company active from 1963 to 1981 When Warner Bros decided to reopen their cartoon studio in 1964, they did so in name only; DePatie-Freleng produced the cartoons into 1966.
While much of Freleng's post-Warner work is considered of lesser quality than his earlier achievements, the DePatie-Freleng studio's signature achievement was The Pink Panther. The Pink Panther cartoon character is the main character in a series of animated short films. DePatie-Freleng was commissioned to create the opening titles for the 1963 film The Pink Panther, for which Freleng created a suave, cool cat character. The Pink Panther is a series of comedy films featuring the bumbling French police detective Jacques Clouseau that began in 1963 with the release of The Pink Panther cartoon character became so popular that United Artists, distributors of The Pink Panther, had Freleng produce a short cartoon starring the character, The Pink Phink (1964). This article is about the film studio Previously it was affiliated with a cinema chain bearing its name now owned by Regal Entertainment Group. The Pink Phink was the first Pink Panther animated short released by United Artists and was produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises
After The Pink Phink won the 1965 Academy Award for Best Short Subject (Cartoons), Freleng and DePatie responded by producing a whole series of Pink Panther cartoons. The Academy Award for Animated Short Film is an award which has been given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as part of the Academy Awards every year Other original cartoon series, among them The Inspector, The Ant and the Aardvark, and Hoot Kloot, soon followed. The Inspector is a series of 1960s theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie-Freleng Enterprises and released through United Artists. The Ant and the Aardvark was a series of theatrical short cartoons produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1969 to 1971 Hoot Kloot was a series of theatrical cartoons It was produced at DePatie-Freleng Enterprises from 1973 to 1974 In 1969, The Pink Panther Show, a Saturday morning anthology program featuring DePatie-Freleng cartoons, debuted on NBC. The Pink Panther Show is a showcase of DePatie-Freleng animated cartoons from the 1960s and 1970s prominently by David H The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC) is an American Television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's The Pink Panther and the other original DePatie-Freleng series would remain in production through 1980, with new cartoons produced for simultaneous Saturday morning broadcast and United Artists theatrical release.
DePatie-Freleng is credited with the creation of Frito-Lay's Chester Cheetah, on the Food Network show "Deep Fried Treats Unwrapped".
By 1967, DePatie and Freleng had moved their operations to the San Fernando Valley. The San Fernando Valley or The Valley is an urbanized Valley located in the north-western section of the city of Los Angeles California, United States One of their projects featured Bing Crosby and his family called, Goldilocks and had songs by the Sherman Brothers. Harry Lillis “Bing” Crosby ( May 3, 1903 &ndash October 14, 1977) was an Academy Award winning American Popular Goldilocks is a half hour musical animated film produced strictly for television in 1970 and first viewed in 1971 The Sherman Brothers are Academy Award -winning American Songwriters who specialize in Musical films. At their new facilities they continued to produce new cartoons until 1980, when they sold DePatie-Freleng to Marvel Comics, who renamed it Marvel Productions. Marvel Comics is an American comic book company owned by Marvel Publishing Inc Marvel Productions Ltd was a television and motion picture studio based in Hollywood California.
Later career
Freleng later served as an executive producer on three 1980s Looney Tunes compilation features, which linked together several of the classic shorts with new animated sequences. Motion Pictures An executive producer of a Motion picture is typically a producer who is sometimes involved in creative or technical aspects of production The Freleng-produced compilation features were The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981), Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982), and Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983). Friz Freleng's Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie is a 1981 Looney Tunes Film Daffy Duck's Fantastic Island (also known as Daffy Duck's Movie Fantastic Island) is a 1983 Looney Tunes Film with a compilation
Friz Freleng died of natural causes in 1995. He was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California. The Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 6001 W Centinela Avenue in Culver City California, USA. Culver City is a city in western Los Angeles County California.
Notes
- ^ His exact year of birth varies by source; some give 1905, others 1906. The year chosen here is that of his grave marker. See Isadore "Friz" Freleng at findagrave. com.
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