Tissa david biography

Born in 1921 in Cluj, Romania, to an ethnic Hungarian family, Thérèse "Tissa" David was the second oldest of her family's ten children.
Thérèse Marie “Tissa” David was born in Romania, in the city of Kolozsvár, on January 5th, 1921.
Thérèse "Tissa" David was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years.

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Tissa David

Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity

Thérèse "Tissa" David (January 5, 1921 – August 21, 2012) was a Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years.^[1]

She was one of the pioneering women in animation, a field which had been dominated by male animators.^[2]^[3]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.^[3]

In 1953, she directed Bonjour Paris [fr], becoming the second female animator to direct an animated feature film.^[2] 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.^[1]

Biography

Early life

Born in 1921 in Cluj,^[3]Romania, to an ethnic Hungarian family, Thérèse "Tissa" Davi

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Tissa David has long been the foremost woman animator on the East coast; her career spanning more than sixty years. Born in Transylvania, Ms. David escaped to Paris in 1950, where she worked for Producers Jean Image and Paul Grimault. In 1955 she moved to New York where she worked as Grim Natwick's assistant at UPA.

Her animation for John Hubley included commercials, shorts and a feature. Cockaboody, Everybody Rides The Carousel, Eggs, Dig, and Of Men and Demons were some of the illustrious projects she animated for the noted animation director.

Tissa, along with Art Babbitt, Grim Natwick and Emery Hawkins, was one of the master animators of the feature film Raggedy Ann and Andy, directed by Richard Williams in 1977. In 1978 she began work with R.O.Blechman, animating on his PBS specials Simple Gifts and A Soldier's Tale.

Her animation for Michael Sporn Animation includes the entire half hour of The Marzipan Pig. She did storyboard and animation for The Red Shoes, storyboard and layout for Ira Sleeps Over, and animation for The Man Who Wa

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The NYC animation community has lost another brilliant star from it's sky.
Tissa David passed away yesterday at the age of 91.
Here's a bio from Michael Sporn's website:
Tissa David has long been the foremost woman animator on the East coast; her career spanning more than sixty years. Born in Transylvania, Ms. David escaped to Paris in 1950, where she worked for Producers Jean Image and Paul Grimault. In 1955 she moved to New York where she worked as Grim Natwick's assistant at UPA.
Her animation for John Hubley included commercials, shorts and a feature.Cockaboody, Everybody Rides The Carousel,Eggs, Dig, and Of Men and Demons were some of the illustrious projects she animated for the noted animation director.
Tissa, along with Art Babbitt, Grim Natwick and Emery Hawkins, was one of the master animators of the feature film Raggedy Ann and Andy, directed by Richard Williams in 1977. In 1978 she began work with R.O.Blechman, animating on his PBS specials Simple Gifts andA Soldier's Tale.
Her animation for Michael