Kneitel, Ruth F. Ruth F. Kneitel, 94, daughter of animated film pioneer Max Fleischer, passed away June 7 of natural causes at ManorCare Nursing Home, Potomac, Maryland. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had been a resident of New York City until moving to Maryland in 1996. Mrs. Kneitel was a professional dancer who appeared in many of her father's early films mixing live performances with animation. She starred in a series of silent shorts entitled ``Carrie of the Chorus," and in the cast of a road show in which she interacted with her father's popular animated character, Betty Boop. Prior to her marriage, she worked as an artist at Fleischer Studios. In 1931, she married Seymour Kneitel, a head animator at Fleischer Studios. They lived in New York, then later in Miami Beach, Fla., while Fleischer Studios was producing the animated feature `` Gulliver's Travels." Her husband later became head of Famous Studios, an animated film studio in New York City which produced several cartoon series including ``Popeye" and ``Casper the Friendly Ghost." During that time, Mrs. Kneitel wrote a number of cartoons and also contributed feature articles on historical subjects to several periodicals. Mrs. Kneitel is survived by a son, magazine editor Thomas Kneitel, of Long Island, N.Y.; a daughter, museum designer Virginia Mahoney, of Chevy Chase, Maryland; a brother, film director Richard Fleischer, of Los Angeles, California, ten grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. A son, Kenneth, died in 1994.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 17, 2001
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 17, 2001
Kneitel, Ruth F. Ruth F. Kneitel, 94, daughter of animated film pioneer Max Fleischer, passed away June 7 of natural causes at ManorCare Nursing Home, Potomac, Maryland. Born and raised in Brooklyn, N.Y., she had been a resident of New York City until moving to Maryland in 1996. Mrs. Kneitel was a professional dancer who appeared in many of her father's early films mixing live performances with animation. She starred in a series of silent shorts entitled ``Carrie of the Chorus," and in the cast of a road show in which she interacted with her father's popular animated character, Betty Boop. Prior to her marriage, she worked as an artist at Fleischer Studios. In 1931, she married Seymour Kneitel, a head animator at Fleischer Studios. They lived in New York, then later in Miami Beach, Fla., while Fleischer Studios was producing the animated feature `` Gulliver's Travels." Her husband later became head of Famous Studios, an animated film studio in New York City which produced several cartoon series including ``Popeye" and ``Casper the Friendly Ghost." During that time, Mrs. Kneitel wrote a number of cartoons and also contributed feature articles on historical subjects to several periodicals. Mrs. Kneitel is survived by a son, magazine editor Thomas Kneitel, of Long Island, N.Y.; a daughter, museum designer Virginia Mahoney, of Chevy Chase, Maryland; a brother, film director Richard Fleischer, of Los Angeles, California, ten grandchildren, and eleven great-grandchildren. A son, Kenneth, died in 1994.
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 17, 2001
Published in the Los Angeles Times on June 17, 2001
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