Sid Marcus

Sidney Marcus (13 July 1904 - 9 September 1985) was an American animator, story man and director, who worked at Screen Gems, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Walter Lantz Productions and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises.

Career Sid Marcus began his animation career in 1925 at Associated Animators working on the Mutt and Jeff cartoons. The studio closed by 1926 and Marcus began working at Fleischer Studios. His animation can be seen in the 1930 Talkartoon Hot Dog. In 1930 he and Fleischer colleague Dick Huemer were hired by Charles Mintz to make a series of cartoons for RKO in collaboration with Art Davis. After one season of Toby the Pup cartoons, the team began a new series of cartoons for Columbia instead, Scrappy. After Dick Huemer left the studio in 1933, Sid Marcus would take over direction of the Scrappy cartoons. In 1934, Sid Marcus directed the first Color Rhapsody, and would direct all four entries of the short lived Barney Google series. In 1941, Columbia let go of most of Screen Gems' staff, including Marcus, Davis and director Lou Lilly, (Ben Harrison, Manny Gould and Allen Rose had been fired before) with story man Frank Tashlin now in charge. Marcus' draft card from the time lists that he is employed at his own studio.

By 1943, Marcus was once again at Screen Gems, this time as a story man. He worked on the Li'l Abner, Fox and Crow, Flippy and Phantasy cartoons. He would even direct two cartoons, in place of Paul Sommer. In 1945, director Bob Wickersham would leave the studio with Marcus taking over his role. The studio shut down in 1946. Marcus would then become Art Davis' story man at Warner Bros. Cartoons where he wrote two cartoons: Bye, Bye Bluebeard and A Ham in a Role. Davis only finished one before his unit was disbanded in 1947 (Bye, Bye Bluebeard), Robert McKimson would complete the second (A Ham in a Role). Marcus was let go when the unit disbanded. He would return to Warner's in the early 1950s writing for McKimson. He was let go when the studio briefly shut down in 1953.

In the late 1950s Marcus worked on Joe Oriolo's Felix the Cat TV series, directed on Sam Singer's Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse in the early 1960s, directed at Walter Lantz's studio from 1963 to 1966, directed at Grantray-Lawrence Animation on The Marvel Super Heroes and Spider-Man (1967–1968), while freelancing stories for Walter Lantz and DePatie–Freleng Enterprises. By 1969 he was working on Here Comes the Grump at DePatie–Freleng where he would spend the rest of his career. His last credits were in 1979.

Writer

Felix the Cat (1958–1961)

Director

Courageous Cat and Minute Mouse (1960–1962) Sinbad Jr. and His Magic Belt (1965–1966) The Marvel Super Heroes (1966) Spider-Man (1967–1968) Here Comes the Grump (1969) Doctor Dolittle (1970–1971) Baggy Pants and the Nitwits (1977) Misterjaw (1977–1978)

Animation Director

Bailey's Comets (1973–1974)