Director

Tissa David

Visual Effects

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Directed movies: 1Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 2730277

Known for: Visual Effects

Born: January 5, 1921

Died: August 21, 2012

Age: 91

Place of birth: Cluj, Cluj, Romania

Gender: Female

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1977 - 1991

Years active: 15

Average TMDB rating: 7

Also known as

Thérèse David

Frequent jobs

Director (1)Animation (5)Storyboard (1)

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Biography

Thérèse "Tissa" David was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years. She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators. Millimeter magazine described her as "one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated cartoon field" and "one of the world's best and busiest" animators in a story published in 1975. In 1953, David directed Bonjour Paris [fr], becoming the second female animator to direct an animated feature film. David later became one of the first women to create and animate a major character in a film when she designed Raggedy Ann for the 1977 film, 'Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure'.

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