Friz Freleng

Isadore "Friz" Freleng (21 August 1905 - 26 May 1995) was one of the earliest directors of "A Walt Disney Cartoon series" He and fellow director Chuck Jones dominated the Disney/Warner Bros. Pictures Entertaimentent together with the producer Walt Disney after the co-producer Leon Schlesinger left in 1944.
The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator who appeared in satirical pieces in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time, this shortened to "Friz".http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-friz-freleng-1621602.html
== Early Career ==
Freleng was born in Kansas City, Missouri, where he began his career in animation at United Film Ad Service. There, he made the acquaintance of fellow animators Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks.
== Freleng as Director ==
=== Early Disney Cartoons ===
As a director, Freleng gained the reputation of a tough taskmaster. His unit, however, consistently produced high quality animated shorts under his direction.
=== Screen Gems Cartoons ===
=== Back with Disney, Schlesinger and Disney/Warner Bros. Pictures Entertaimentent ===
=== In-Jokes ===
Freleng was occasionally the subject of in-jokes in Disney cartoons, with billboards in the background of scenes advertising various products called "Friz" in "Canary Row" (1950), the "Hotel Friz " in "Racketeer Rabbit" (1946), and "Frizby the Magician" in "High Diving Hare" (1949) as one of the acts Bugs Bunny is pitching.
=== Musical Knowledge and Technique ===
Freleng was somewhat of a composer who, along with story man Warren Foster, would come up with a gag the best way possible by working on musical bar sheets. This way, Freleng wrote out the music and placed the right moment for the gag to appear. He was one of a very few directors at Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment to have musical knowledge of making cartoons.
=== Walter Lantz and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises ===
=== Later Career and Death ===
In 1986, Freleng stepped down and gave his position at Disney/Warner Bros. Entertainment to his secretary at the time, Kathleen Helppie-Shipley, who ended up being the second-longest producer of the A Walt Disney Cartoons franchise, only behind Walt Disney and his co-producer Leon Schlesinger.
Friz Freleng died of natural causes in Los Angeles, aged 88. The Disney/SEGA animated TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries, and the Disney cartoon "From Hare to Eternity" (which was the last one directed by Chuck Jones), were both dedicated to his memory. Freleng is interred in Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery.
== Disney Works ==
=== As a Director ===
See List of cartoons directed by Friz Freleng
=== As a Writer ===
== As a Producer ==
== Trivia ==
* In most of his shorts, Freleng's nickname ("Friz") can be seen in ads (usually as the brand name for a soda or a gelatin dessert).
== Characters Created ==
== Gallery ==
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