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Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, [3] and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020. Deitch was known for creating animated cartoons such as Munro, Tom Terrific, and Nudnik, as well as his work on the Popeye and Tom and Jerry series.
Tom and Jerry: The Gene Deitch Collection is a one-disc DVD collection of animated short cartoons starring Tom and Jerry, all directed by Gene Deitch and released in 1961–62. It was released on June 2, 2015, in Region 1. [1] This collection brought all the Deitch Tom and Jerry cartoons [2] together for the first time on DVD (on Region 1).
Tom Terrific is a 1957–1959 animated series on American television, presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children's television show. [1]Created by Gene Deitch under the Terrytoons studio (which by that time was a subsidiary of CBS, the network that broadcast Captain Kangaroo), Tom Terrific was made as twenty-six stories, each split into five episodes, with one five-minute episode ...
Jules Feiffer, the award-winning cartoonist and satirist, died Friday at the age of 95. ... was the title character in 1961's "Munro," an animated short directed by Gene Deitch.
Munro is a 1960 Czechoslovak-American animated short film directed by Gene Deitch, written by Jules Feiffer, and produced by William L. Snyder. Munro won an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1961. [1] [2] It was the first short composed outside of the United States to be so honored. [3] The Academy Film Archive preserved Munro in 2004. [4]
The Tom and Jerry Cartoon Kit is a Tom and Jerry animated action comedy short film, produced and released on August 10, 1962. [2] It was the ninth cartoon in a series of thirteen to be directed by Gene Deitch and produced by William L. Snyder in Czechoslovakia. [3]
The following thirteen cartoons were directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William L. Snyder, and animated at Snyder's Rembrandt Films in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now in the Czech Republic). All cartoons were released to theaters by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Nudnik was a Czechoslovak/Czech animated film series directed by Gene Deitch, produced by William Lawrence Snyder, and distributed by Paramount Studios. Twelve shorts were released during 1965 and 1967. [1] [2] [3] The character's tagline is "Whatever can go wrong with Nudnik, will go wrong."