Gene Deitch died in his apartment in Pragueon on April 16, 2020, according to his Czech publisher Petr Himmel. He was 95. No cause of death was given.
Born on August 8, 1924, in Chicago, Deitch came to Prague in 1959. He originally planned a 10-day stay, but met his future wife, Zdenka, and stayed on in the Czechoslovakian capital. At that time, he directed 13 episodes of the animated Tom and Jerry and also some of the Popeye the Sailor series. Many said Tom and Jerry was there all along through their childhood, and even more thanked him for the happiness he brought to viewers' lives.
Deitch's film Munro won the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film in 1960. He was also nominated(提名) for the same award twice in 1964 for Here’s Nudnik and How to Avoid Friendship. Among his works was the Tom Terrific short which was presented as part of the Captain Kangaroo children’s television show. Tom Terrific was created under the Terrytoons studio and adapted from an earlier Deitch comic strip. It was a black and white, five-minute short film that was modeled on children’s drawings.
Deitch’s other works included Sidney’s Family Tree which was nominated for an Academy Award in 1958. In 2004, he received the Winsor McCay Award for his lifelong contribution to cartoons.
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