biography
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| lived:
| (1894–1985)
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| biography:
| Animator, born in New Jersey, USA. He contributed joke cartoons to Life magazine (1914), and entered animation in 1916, scripting and animating many films, including the Charlie Chaplin cartoons (1917). In 1920 he created Feline Follies, making Felix the Cat the first cartoon film star to win international fame; one of the many spin-offs was a comic strip for newspaper syndication (1923) which he drew in his spare time. Felix failed to make the transition to sound, but Messmer continued the strip until 1954. |
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