born July 19, 1883, Vienna, Austria
died Sept. 11, 1972, Woodland Hills, Calif., U.S.
born July 14, 1894, New York, N.Y., U.S.
died June 25, 1979, Hollywood, Calif.
U.S. animators.
The brothers worked as newspaper cartoonists before founding their own studio in 1921 to make animated cartoons. In the mid 1920s they produced the first sound-on-film animations. They later created and produced the popular cartoon series Betty Boop (193139), Popeye the Sailor (192942), and Superman (194142) and the feature-length cartoon Gulliver's Travels (1939).