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 Academy 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 approximately a dozen Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM, and also "Krazy Kat" and "Popeye" for King Features, and also a Oscar Winning Munro (1961). He later created "Nudnik", a character based on "Foofle", which he created, while at Terrytoons. He lived in Prague, with his wife, Zdenka, until the time of his death on April 16th, 2020.
- IMDb mini biography by: Charles Brubaker

Moved to Prague in 1959.

Father of underground cartoonist Kim Deitch (1944- ).

Last name is pronounced with a long "I".

He was the son of Ruth Shirley (Delson) and Joseph Deitch. His father and maternal grandparents were Jewish emigrants, his father from London and his mother's parents from Russia and Latvia, respectively.