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Hal Seeger is a Director and Scriptwriter American born on 16 may 1917 at Brooklyn (USA)
Harold "Hal" Seeger (May 16, 1917 – March 13, 2005) was an animated cartoon producer and director who owned his own studio the Hal Seeger Studio (Hal Seeger Productions).
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Seeger began working as an animator for Fleischer Studios in the early 1940s. His credits included "A Kick in Time" for the Color Classics series and a sequence for the feature film "Mr. Bug Goes to Town".
During the later part of the 1940s, he worked as a screenwriter for a series of movies featuring well known Black performers, including the 1947 Cab Calloway musical Hi-De-Ho and two films featuring Dusty Fletcher and Moms Mabley, "Killer Diller" and "Boarding House Blues". In 1950 he wrote and directed a Warner Bros. short subject Hands Tell the Story featuring a story told with only human hands.
In 1962, his studio produced and syndicated 100 new Out Of the Inkwell cartoons, based on the Koko the Clown character, originally created by Fleischer Studios.
He is best known for having produced the animated programs Milton the Monster (1965–66) and Batfink (1966–67). Another popular credit was Fearless Fly (1965), the adventures of a bumpkin fly who is physically helpless and practically blind without his trademark oversize rectangular glasses, but on putting them on he is invincible. This cartoon was a feature of the Milton the Monster Show.
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Birth name Harold Seeger
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1917 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 13 march 2005 (at 87 years)
Nationality USA
Birth 16 may 1917 at Brooklyn (USA)
Death 13 march 2005 (at 87 years)
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Seeger began working as an animator for Fleischer Studios in the early 1940s. His credits included "A Kick in Time" for the Color Classics series and a sequence for the feature film "Mr. Bug Goes to Town".
During the later part of the 1940s, he worked as a screenwriter for a series of movies featuring well known Black performers, including the 1947 Cab Calloway musical Hi-De-Ho and two films featuring Dusty Fletcher and Moms Mabley, "Killer Diller" and "Boarding House Blues". In 1950 he wrote and directed a Warner Bros. short subject Hands Tell the Story featuring a story told with only human hands.
In 1962, his studio produced and syndicated 100 new Out Of the Inkwell cartoons, based on the Koko the Clown character, originally created by Fleischer Studios.
He is best known for having produced the animated programs Milton the Monster (1965–66) and Batfink (1966–67). Another popular credit was Fearless Fly (1965), the adventures of a bumpkin fly who is physically helpless and practically blind without his trademark oversize rectangular glasses, but on putting them on he is invincible. This cartoon was a feature of the Milton the Monster Show.
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Filmography of Hal Seeger (4 films)
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Directed by Hal Seeger, Jack Zander
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Action, Animation
Themes Space adventure films, Superhero films, Space opera
Actors Bob McFadden, Jack Mercer, Corinne Orr
Rating63%
Professor Morbid Grimsby is an evil genius who has won the prestigious "Meanie" award six years in a row; to guarantee a seventh, he plots to eliminate all laughter by getting rid of the Sunday funnies, with the aid of his henchman Brutus.
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Boarding House Blues (1948)
, 1h30Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Moms Mabley
Rating65%
When Mom's boarding house is threatened with closure and eviction of the tenants due to non payments, Mom's tenants get together to put on a show to raise the money needed to save Mom and their home.
Killer Diller (1948)
, 1h13Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Butterfly McQueen, Nat King Cole, Moms Mabley
Rating54%
Dusty Fletcher plays a comic, tap dancer and bad magician. While practicing his routine for that evening's variety show, he accidentally vanishes Lola (Nellie Hill), the girlfriend of the show's manager Baltimore Dumdone (George Wiltshire). She was wearing a thousand-dollar string of pearls and it seems most likely that criminality is afoot.
Hi-De-Ho (1947)
, 1h1Genres Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Jeni Le Gon
Rating58%
Cab Calloway joue lui-même dans un complot sur la jalousie, les boîtes de nuit et les gangsters. Se termine par une série de numéros musicaux.