Gene Deitch
Animator, Film director
1924 –
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Who is Gene Deitch?
Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch is an American illustrator, animator and film director. He has been based in Prague, capital of Czechoslovakia and the present-day Czech Republic, since 1959.
Deitch produced animated cartoons for studios such as UPA/Columbia Pictures, Terrytoons/20th Century Fox, MGM, and Paramount Pictures.
His sons Kim Deitch, Simon Deitch, and Seth Deitch are prominent artists and writers in the underground comix and alternative comics movements.
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- Born
- Aug 8, 1924
Chicago - Also known as
- Eugene Merrill Deitch
- Eugene Merril "Gene" Deitch
- G. Deitch
- Eugene Merril Deitch
- Spouses
- Marie Deitch
( - 1960) - Zdenka Deitchová
(1960 - )
- Marie Deitch
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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