Gene Deitch

Gene Deitch was born on Aug 08, 1924 in USA. Gene Deitch's big-screen debut came with It's a Living directed by Winfield Hoskins in 1957. Gene Deitch is known for Tom and Jerry's Magical Misadventures directed by Gene Deitch, Mel Blanc stars as Tom and Nicole Bouma as Little Princess (segment: Medieval Menace). The most recent award Gene Deitch achieved is Annie Awards. The upcoming new movie Gene Deitch plays is Tom and Jerry's Magical Misadventures which will be released on Jun 11, 2013.

Gene Deitch was an animator at UPA. He later joined Terrytoons in 1955. He created characters like "John Doormat", "Clint Clobber", "Gaston Le Crayon", "Sidney", and "Foofle". In early 1958, his theatrical cartoon Sidney's Family Tree (1958) was nominated for Academy Award. In August, 1958, he was fired from Terrytoons, and in 1960, he moved to Prague, Czechoslovakia to work with William L. Snyder, and directed approximately a dozen Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM, and also "Krazy Kat" and "Popeye" for King Features, and also a Oscar Winning Munro (1961). He later created "Nudnik", a character based on "Foofle", which he created, while at Terrytoons. He lived in Prague, with his wife, Zdenka, until the time of his death on April 16th, 2020.