Friz freleng biography of albert
Friz Freleng Biography (1906-1995) - Film Reference!
Friz freleng biography of albert
Freleng, Isadore (“Friz”)
(b. 21 August 1906 in Kansas City, Missouri; d. 26 May 1995 in Los Angeles, California), animator, director, and producer of animated films and one of the creators of the Warner Brothers style of cartoon animation.
Freleng was one of six children born to Louis Freleng, a Jewish Russian immigrant shoemaker-turned-farmer, and Elka Ribakoff, a homemaker.
Because of his diminutive size (as an adult, he only stood five-feet, two-inches tall), Freleng could not participate in sports, so he developed an early talent for sketching. He began a career as an illustrator when he enrolled in the Horner Art School, a private art school in Kansas City that disappeared in the 1930s, and won a Kansas City Post drawing contest, which led to a job with the United Film Advertising Service from 1924 to 1927.
United Film specialized in making illustrated cartoons on glass slides and film strips to be run between silent film shorts and features, showcasing local and regi