Isador “Friz” Frelemg was born on August 21 1906 in Kansas City Missouri.  Freleng began his animation career at the United Film Ad where he met two other famous animators, Hugh Harman and Ub Iwerks. When Disney (Iwerks friend) moved his studio to California he issued a call out to his fellow animators but Freleng remained behind.  In 1927 he finally went to Disney’s studio and worked on such projects as the Alice Comedies and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.


Later, He left the studio and teamed up with animators Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising and created a new studio. Their main character was Bosko and began to promote him. Freleng left fearing that it wouldn’t generate any interest but came back when the cartoon was sold to Leon Schlesinger, producer of the Looney Tunes at Warner Bros Studios.
Freleng was talked into staying after Harman and Ising left and was asked to fix a previously rejected cartoon. Showing that he could perform the task he quickly became one of the top producers at the studio

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Freleng later left the studio after accepting a pay raise at the new MGM studio headed by Fred Quimby. But after his contract was up he returned back to the Warner Bros Studio and continued to work on the Looney Tunes series.

 

 

 When Warner Bros closed in 1963 he and former boss Dave DePatie formed a new studio called DePatie-Freleng Enterprise.  When Warner Bros reopened, they produced their cartoons until 1966. The most notable series that came out of DePatie-Freleng  was The Pink Panther.
Later on in his career , 1980’s, he served as the executive producer for a number of Warner Bros Cartoons and a few of the movies.

Friz Freleng died May 26 1995 in Los Angeles California