Frank Tashlin

Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein) (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972) (also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash) was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. He was 6'2" tall and weighed nearly 300 pounds. Tashlin drifted from job to job after dropping out of high school in New Jersey at age 13. In 1930, he started working for Paul Terry as a cartoonist on the Aesop's Film Fables cartoon series, then worked briefly for ... more

Frank Tashlin (born Francis Fredrick von Taschlein) (February 19, 1913 – May 5, 1972) (also known as Tish Tash or Frank Tash) was an American animator, screenwriter, and film director. He was 6'2" tall and weighed nearly 300 pounds. Tashlin drifted from job to job after dropping out of high school in New Jersey at age 13. In 1930, he started working for Paul Terry as a cartoonist on the Aesop's Film Fables cartoon series, then worked briefly for Amadee J. Van Beuren, but he was just as much a drifter in his animation career as he had been as a teenager. Tashlin joined Leon Schlesinger's cartoon studio at Warner Bros. as an animator in 1932, where he was noted as a fast animator. He used his free time to start his own comic strip in 1934 called Van Boring, inspired by former boss Van Beuren, which ran for three years. He signed his comic strip "Tish Tash." Tashlin was fired from the studio when he refused to give Schlesinger a cut of his comic strip revenues. He joined the Ub Iwerks... less