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Date of Birth

8 August 1924, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Birth Name

Eugene Merril Deitch

Mini Biography

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 Acadamy 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 approx. a dozen Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM, and also "Krazy Kat" and "Popeye" for King Features, and also a Oscar Winning _Munro (1960)_. He later created "Nudnik", a character based on "Foofle", which he created at Terrytoons. He still lives in Prague, with his wife, Zdenka.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Charles Brubaker

Spouse

Zdenka Deitchová	(1960 - present)
Marie Deitch	(? - 1960)

Trivia

Moved to Prague in 1959.

Father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch (1944- ).

Last name is pronounced with a long "I".

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