| LC control no. | n 81024552 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Deitch, Gene |
| Other standard no. | 000000006307733X 59182959 Q1501393 |
| Birth date | 1924-08-08 |
| Death date | 2020-04-16 |
| Place of birth | Chicago (Ill.) |
| Place of death | Prague (Czech Republic) |
| Field of activity | Animated films Animation (Cinematography) |
| Profession or occupation | Animators Cartoonists Motion picture producers and directors |
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| Found in | His Nudnik. Info. converted from 678, 2012-10-02 (b. 1924) IMDb, 9 February 2016 (Gene Deitch; Gene Deitch was an animator; animated films such as Popeye (1960) and Where the wild things are (1973)) Wikipedia, April 17, 2020 (Gene Deitch; Deitch died in Prague on April 17, 2020, at the age of 95) New York times, 28 Apr. 2020 (Gene Deitch; born Eugene Merrill Deitch Aug. 8, 1924 in Chicago [Ill.], died Apr. 16, in Prague [Czech Republic] where he lived, aged 95; an Oscar-winning animator who created the early television cartoon, "Tom Terrific" and went on to make countless cartoons and film versions of popular children's books for more than a half-century; following three years managing Terrytoons for CBS, Mr. Deitch opened his own animation studio in 1958; after working on his Oscar-winning film, "Munro" in Prague with Rembrandt Films, Deitch moved there in 1961; among his earliest jobs in Prague was to create new entries of the "Tom and Jerry" series of cat-and-mouse cartoons, popular in the 1940s and 1950s for MGM) |
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