Sid Marcus

Sid Marcus
Born	(1904-07-13)July 13, 1904 New York, U.S.
Died	September 9, 1985(1985-09-09) (aged 81) Santa Monica, California, U.S
Occupations	Animator, director
Years active	1925–1979
Employer(s)	Associated Animators (1925-1926) Out of the Inkwell Films (1927–1930) Screen Gems (1930-1941; 1943-1946) Warner Bros. Cartoons (1947; 1952-1953) Walter Lantz Productions (1963–1966) DePatie–Freleng Enterprises (1969–1978)

Sid Marcus was an American animator, story man and director, who worked at Screen Gems, Warner Bros., Walter Lantz and DePatie- Freleng.

Career

Sid Marcus began his animation career in 1925 at Associated Animators working on the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. The studio closed by 1926 and Marcus began working at the Fleischer's. His animation can be seen in the 1930 Talkartoon Hot Dog. In 1930 he and Fleischer colleague Dick Huemer were hired by Charles Mintz to make a series of cartoons for RKO in collaboration with Art Davis. After one season of Toby the Pup cartoons, the team began a new series of cartoons for Columbia instead, Scrappy. After Dick Huemer left the studio in 1933, ^[1] Sid Marcus would take over direction of the Scrappy cartoons. In 1934, Sid Marcus directed the first Color Rhapsody, and would direct all four entries of the short lived Barney Google series. ^[2] In 1941, Columbia let go of most of Screen Gems’ staff, including Marcus, Davis and director Lou Lilly, (Ben Harrison, Manny Gould and Allen Rose had been fired before) with story man Frank Tashlin now in charge. Marcus’ draft card from the time lists that he is employed at his own studio. ^[3]

By 1943, Marcus was once again at Screen Gems, this time as a story man. He worked on the Li’l Abner, Fox and Crow, Flippy and Phantasy cartoons. He would even direct two cartoons, ^{[4] [5]} in place of Paul Sommer. In 1945, director Bob Wickersham would leave the studio with Sid Marcus taking over his role. ^[6] The studio shut down in 1946. Marcus would then become Art Davis’ story man at Warner Bros. where he wrote two cartoons. Davis only finished one before his unit was disbanded in 1947, Robert McKimson would complete the second. Marcus was let go when the unit disbanded. He would return to Warner's in the early 50's writing for McKimson. He was let go when the studio briefly shut down in 1953. ^[7]

In the late 1950s Marcus worked on Joe Oriolo's Felix the Cat TV series, directed on Sam Singer's Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse in the early 1960s, directed at Walter Lantz's studio from 1963 to 1966, directed at Grantray-Lawrence Animation on The Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man (1967–1968), while freelancing stories for Walter Lantz and DePatie-Freleng. By 1969 he was working on Here Comes The Grump at DePatie-Freleng where he would spend the rest of his career. His last credits were in 1979. ^[7]

Filmography

Theatrical Cartoons

Title	Release Date	Role	Series	Notes
The Museum	1930	Co-director with Dick Huemer	Toby the Pup
The Fiddler
The Miner
The Showman
The Bug House
Circus Time	1931
The Milkman
The Brown Derby
Down South
Hallowe’en
Aces Up
The Bull Thrower
Yelp Wanted		Animator	Scrappy
The Little Pest
Sunday Clothes
The Dog Snatcher
Showing Off
Minding the Baby
The Chinatown Mystery	1932
The Treasure Runt
Railroad Wretch
The Pet Shop
Stepping Stones
Battle of the Barn
Fare Play
Camping Out
The Black Sheep
The Great Bird Mystery
Flop House
The Bad Genius
The Wolf at the Door
Sassy Cats	1933
Scrappy’s Party
The Beer Parade
The False Alarm
The Match Kid		Director
Technoracket
The World’s Affair
Movie Struck
Sandman Tales
Hollywood Babies
Scrappy’s Auto Show
Scrappy’s Art Gallery	1934
Scrappy’s Television
Aw Nurse
Scrappy’s Toy Shop
Scrappy’s Dog Show
Scrappy’s Theme Song
Scrappy’s Relay Race
The Great Experiment
Scrappy’s Expedition
The Trapeze Artist			Krazy Kat
The Concert Kid			Scrappy
Holiday Land			Color Rhapsody
The Happy Butterfly			Scrappy
The Gold Getters	1935
Little Rover			Color Rhapsody
Neighbours
Tetched in the Head			Barney Google
Patch Mah Britches
The Bird Stuffer	1936		Krazy Kat
Spark Plug			Barney Google
Major Google
In My Gondola			Color Rhapsody
A Boy and his Dog
The Novelty Shop
Mother Hen’s Holiday	1937
Indian Serenade
Scary Crows
Hollywood Picnic
The Little Match Girl
The Air Hostess
The Foolish Bunny	1938
Window Shopping
Poor Elmer
Little Moths Big Flame
Peaceful Neighbours	1939
The House That Jack Built
Jitterbug Knights
Dreams on Ice
The Greyhound and the Rabbit	1940
Tangled Television
The Mad Hatter
A Helping Paw	1941
The Land of Fun
Tom Thumb’s Brother
The Cuckoo I.Q.
The Crystal Gazer			Phantasy
Who’s Zoo in Hollywood			Color Rhapsody
Red Riding Hood Rides Again
Amoozin’ But Confoozin’	1944	Story	Li’l Abner
A Pee-Kool-Yar-Sit-Chee-Ay-Shun		Story & Direction
Mr. Moocher		Story	Fox and Crow
Kickapoo Juice			Li’l Abner
Goofy News Views	1945	Story & Direction	Phantasy
Booby Socks		Story
Phoney Baloney			Fox and Crow
Unsure Runts	1946
Cagey Bird			Flippy
Mysto Fox			Fox and Crow
Up N’ Atom	1947	Director	Color Rhapsody
Swiss Tease
Kitty Caddy			Phantasy
Boston Beanie			Color Rhapsody
Topsy Turkey	1948		Phantasy
The Coo-Coo Bird Dog	1949		Color Rhapsody
Cat-Tastrophy				Final Columbia cartoon by Sid Marcus.
Bye Bye Bluebeard		Story	Merrie Melodies
A Ham in a Role			Looney Tunes
No Parking Hare	1954		Looney Tunes
Devil May Hare				Debut of Tasmanian Devil.
The Oily American			Merrie Melodies
Gone Batty		Story with Ben Washam	Looney Tunes
All Fowled Up		Story with Charles McKimson
Lighthouse Mouse	1955	Story	Merrie Melodies
The Hole Idea			Looney Tunes
Dime to Retire
Greedy Gabby Gator	1963	Director	Woody Woodpecker
Stowaway Woody
Salmon Loafer			Chilly Willy
Coy Decoy			Woody Woodpecker
The Tenant’s Racket
Pesky Pelican			Chilly Willy
Tepee For Two			Woody Woodpecker
Science Friction
Dumb Like a Fox	1964
Deep Freeze Squeeze			Chilly Willy
Woody’s Clip Joint			Woody Woodpecker
Skinfolks
Lighthouse Keeping Blues			Chilly Willy
Get Lost! Little Doggy			Woody Woodpecker
Ski-napper			Chilly Willy
Three Little Woodpeckers	1965		Woody Woodpecker
Fractured Friendship			Chilly Willy
Birds of a Feather			Woody Woodpecker
Half Baked Alaska			Chilly Willy
Sioux Me			Woody Woodpecker
Pesky Guest			Chilly Willy
Rough Riding Hood	1966		Woody Woodpecker
A Squeak in the Deep		Story	Looney Tunes
Teeny Weeny Meany		Director	Chilly Willy
Swing Ding Amigo		Story	Looney Tunes
Operation Shanghai	1967	Director	Chilly Willy
Hot Time on Ice		Story
The Nautical Nut			Woody Woodpecker
Chilly and the Woodpecker			Chilly Willy
Think Before You Pink	1969		Pink Panther
Odd Ant Out	1970		The Ant and the Aardvark
The Foul Kin			Roland and Ratfink
War and Pieces
All Hams on Deck			Woody Woodpecker
Chilly’s Cold War			Chilly Willy
A Gooney is Born	1971
Rough Brunch			The Ant and the Aardvark
Trick or Retreat			Roland and Ratfink
Chilley’s Hide-A-Way			Chilly Willy
The Rude Intruder	1972
Freeze a Jolly Good Fellow	1973	Director	The Blue Racer
Giddy Up Woe	1974		Hoot Kloot
Mesa Trouble
Pinky Doodle	1976		Pink Panther
Pink Arcade	1978
Dietetic Pink
Pink S.W.A.T.
Yankee Doodle Pink
Pink in the Drink
Pink Z-Z-Z
Toro Pink	1979
Pink Pull
Doctor Pink

Television ^[8]

Writer

• Felix the Cat (1958–1961)

Director

• Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (1960–1962)
• Sinbad Jr. and his Magic Belt (1965–1966)
• The Marvel Super Heroes (1966)
• Spider-Man (1967–1968)
• Here Comes the Grump (1969)
• Doctor Dolittle (1970–1971)
• Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (1977)
• Misterjaw (1977–1978)

Animation Director

• Baileys Comets (1973–1974)

References

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