Lou Fleischer (July 16, 1891 – November 16, 1985) was an American

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, and the brother of

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and Dave Fleischer. He was the head of the

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Music DepartmentDial, Donna (2000) ''Cartoons in Paradise: How the Fleischer Brothers Moved to Miami and Lost Their Studio''. Florida: Florida Historical Society pp. 309-30 until the company was reorganized as

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in 1942. He is thought to have been the voice of

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in "I Wanna Be a Lifeguard” from the Popeye film series in 1936. Following his dismissal at the changeover to Famous Studios, Fleischer worked as a Lens Grinder for the

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effort, and later worked for the Army Signal Corps Film Unit in New York. For a short period in the 1940s he did scoring for George Pal and taught piano while residing in Redondo Beach, California until his retirement in the late 1960s.

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* American animators American male composers American composers American Jews American male voice actors American people of Austrian-Jewish descent American people of Polish-Jewish descent Animation composers 1891 births 1985 deaths Male actors from New York City Fleischer family Fleischer Studios people 20th-century American male musicians {{US-animator-stub