Gene Deitch
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OverviewAI-generated
Gene Deitch was an American male animator, cartoonist, and motion picture producer and director. His professional career spanned from 1944 to 2008. He worked in the fields of animation, cinematography, and scenaristics. Deitch was born in 1924 and died in 2020.
He is associated with works such as *Nudnik Revealed!*, *Deitchs Pictorama*, *Animating picture books*, and *Animating Strega Nonna*. He also authored the work *בקורו של צב*. Deitch has been referenced by 420 other encyclopedia articles. His nationality is listed as US, and he is linked to the country CZ.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, VIAF, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 10
Top works
- בקורו של צב
- Nudnik Revealed!
- Deitchs Pictorama
- Animating picture books
- Animating Strega Nonna
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 29
- Total plays
- 73
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Gene+Deitch">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,760x
- The american rheumatism association 1987 revised criteria for the classification of rheumatoid arthritis
· 1988 · cited 15,808x
- CheckM: assessing the quality of microbial genomes recovered from isolates, single cells, and metagenomes
· 2015 · cited 11,992x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,215x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
via Crossref · CC0
Authority record · VIAF
- Lifespan
- 1924–2020
- Nationality
- US
- Role / Field
- Reziseri, Motion picture producers and directors, Cartoonists, Animators, Vytvarnici, Animation cinematography
- Language
- eng
- Gender
- Male
Recorded by 16 libraries
via VIAF · OCLC
Key facts
- Born
- Eugene Merril Deitch , ( 1924-08-08 ) August 8, 1924, Chicago, Illinois , U.S.
- Died
- April 16, 2020 (2020-04-16) (aged 95), Prague , Czech Republic
- Citizenship
- United States
- Occupations
- Illustrator , animator , director
- Years active
- 1945–2008
- Spouses
- Marie (m. 1943; div. before 1964) Zdenka Najmanová ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1964 )
- Children
- Kim , Simon, Seth
- Awards
- Inkpot Award (2013)
- Website
- Archived at archive.org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Eugene Merril Deitch (August 8, 1924 – April 16, 2020) was an American illustrator, animator, comics artist, 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.
Early life
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