1923 in animation
Events in 1923 in animation.
Events
July
July 15: The Felix the Cat cartoon Felix in Hollywood is released, in which Felix meets various caricatures of Hollywood stars.October
October 16:- * After the Laugh-O-Gram Studio has been declared bankrupt, The Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio is founded by Walt and Roy O. Disney. Ub Iwerks is also back as the studio's main animator.
- * The Walt Disney Company releases Alice's Wonderland, a mixture between live-action and animation. This is the debut of Disney's first modestly successful series, the Alice Comedies. The series will run until 1927.
Specific date unknown
- Curt Wolfram Kieslich adapts Wilhelm Busch's comic book Max und Moritz into an animated short.
Films released
- Unknown date:
- *Day at the Park
- *Martha
- *On the Air
- *Wedding Bells
- 1 January – Felix the Ghost Breaker
- 14 January – Colonel Heeza Liar And The Ghost
- 15 January – Felix Win's Out
- 1 February – Colonel Heeza Liar, Detective
- 8 February – The Einstein Theory of Relativity
- 17 February – The Traveling Salesman
- 23 February – Farmer Al Falfa's Bride
- 11 March – Colonel Heeza Liar's Burglar
- 22 March – One Hard Pull
- 8 April – Day by Day in Every Way
- 15 April – Felix Tries for Treasure
- 27 April – Amateur Night on the Ark
- 1 May – Felix Revolts
- 12 May – Springtime
- 15 May – Felix Calms His Conscience
- 1 June – Felix the Globe Trotter
- 3 June – Colonel Heeza Liar In The African Jungles
- 15 June – Felix Gets Broadcasted
- 1 July – Felix Strikes it Rich
- 8 July – Colonel Heeza Liar In Uncle Tom's Cabin
- 15 July – Felix in Hollywood
- 19 July – Marathon Dancer
- 1 August – Felix in Fairyland
- 5 August – Colonel Heeza Liar's Vacation
- 15 August – Felix Laughs Last
- 30 September – Felix and the Radio
- 16 October – Alice's Wonderland
- 1 November – Colonel Heeza Liar's Forbidden Fruit
- 9 November – Farmer Al Falfa's Pet Cat
- 15 November – Felix Fills a Shortage
- 1 December:
- *Colonel Heeza Liar, Strikebreaker
- *Felix the Goat-Getter
- 15 December – Felix Goes A-Hunting
Births
January
January 8: Larry Storch, American actor and comedian,.January 19:- * Bob McFadden, American actor,.
- * Jean Stapleton, American actress,.January 21: Paul Kligman, Romanian-born Canadian actor,.January 22: Fred Peters, American animator and comics artist,.January 24: Vlado Kristl, Yugoslavian-Croatian film director and animator,.January 29: Andrea Bresciani, Slovenian-Italian animator and comics artist,.
February
February 17: Kathleen Freeman, American actress,.February 15: Keene Curtis, American actor,.February 18: Allen Melvin, American actor,.February 19: Marshall Barer, American lyricist, librettist, singer, songwriter and director,.February 24: Fred Steiner, American conductor, orchestrator, film historian, arranger and composer,.February 28: Charles Durning, American actor,.March
March 6: Ed McMahon, American announcer, game show host, comedian, actor, singer and combat aviator,.March 16: Joyce Carlson, American artist,.April
April 13: Don Adams, American actor and comedian,.April 16: Walter Bien, American film producer,.April 20: Tito Puente, American musician, songwriter, bandleader and record producer,.April 24: Red Coffey, American comedian and actor,.April 25:- * Grant Munro, Canadian animator and film director,.
- * Paul Whitsun-Jones, Welsh actor,.April 28: Dorris Bergstrom, American animator,.April 30: Al Lewis, American actor,.
May
May 1: Ion Popescu-Gopo, Romanian graphic artist, animator and film director,.May 9: Gino Gavioli, Italian comics artist and animator,.May 20: Steve Krantz, American film producer and writer,.May 26: Roy Dotrice, English actor,.May 27:- * Henry Kissinger, German-born American politician and diplomat,.
- * Alfonso Wong, Chinese comics artist and animator,.May 29: Harry Everett Smith, American experimental filmmaker,.
June
June 14: Władysław Nehrebecki, Polish animator and television director,.June 30: Carl Ritchie, American actor,.July
July 5: Eunice Macaulay, British animator and film producer,.July 8: Val Bettin, American actor,.July 13: Norma Zimmer, American actress,.July 25:- * Estelle Getty, American actress and comedian,.
- * Allan Lurie, American actor,.July 26: Jan Berenstain, American children's book author and illustrator,.July 28: Ray Ellis, American record producer, arranger, conductor and composer,.July 31: Kent Rogers, American actor,.
August
August 9: John Stephenson, American actor,.August 14: Alice Ghostley, American actress,.August 15: Rose Marie, American actress, singer, and comedian,.August 29:- * Peg Dixon, Canadian actress,.
- * Jean Ache, French animator and comics artist,.
September
September 8: Gloria Wood, American actress and singer,.September 23: Jimmy Weldon, American actor,.September 28: William Windom, American actor,.September 29: Stan Berenstain, American children's book author and illustrator,.October
October 4: Charlton Heston, American actor,.October 5: Glynis Johns, British actress,.October 7: Břetislav Pojar, Czech puppeteer, animator and film director,.October 21: Walerian Borowczyk, Polish film director and animator,.October 30: Herschel Bernardi, American actor,.November
November 12: Ernie Anderson, American radio and television personality, horror host, and announcer,.November 19: Mike Sekowsky, American comics artist, writer and animator,.December
December 1:- * Dick Shawn, American actor and comedian,.
- * Morris, Belgian comics artist and animation director,.December 2: Miroslav Štěpánek, Czech animator, film director, sculptor, screenwriter, illustrator and graphic designer,.December 6: Maury Laws, American composer,.December 7: Ted Knight, American actor,.December 10: Harold Gould, American actor,.December 12:
- * Bob Barker, American game show host,.
- * Bob Dorough, American jazz musician, songwriter and composer,.
Specific date unknown
- Jack Keil, American advertising executive,.