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class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Romanian-born American animator of Hungarian ethnicity</div> <p><b>Thérèse "Tissa" David</b> (January 5, <a href="/wiki/1921_in_Romania" title="1921 in Romania">1921</a> – August 21, <a href="/wiki/2021_in_the_United_States" title="2021 in the United States">2012</a>) was a <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Romanian</a>-born American <a href="/wiki/Animator" title="Animator">animator</a> of <a href="/wiki/Hungarians" title="Hungarians">Hungarian</a> ethnicity, whose career spanned more than sixty years.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She was one of the pioneering women in <a href="/wiki/Animation" title="Animation">animation</a>, a field which had been dominated by male animators.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Millimeter</i> magazine described her as "one of the few women to have reached the top in the traditionally male-dominated animated <a href="/wiki/Cartoon" title="Cartoon">cartoon</a> field" and "one of the world's best and busiest" animators in a story published in 1975.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1953, she directed <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonjour_Paris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonjour Paris (page does not exist)">Bonjour Paris</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Paris_!" class="extiw" title="fr:Bonjour Paris !">fr</a>]</span></i>, becoming the second female animator to direct an animated <a href="/wiki/Feature_film" title="Feature film">feature film</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David later became one of the first women to create and animate a major character in a <a href="/wiki/Film" title="Film">film</a> when she designed <a href="/wiki/Raggedy_Ann" title="Raggedy Ann">Raggedy Ann</a> for the 1977 film, <i><a href="/wiki/Raggedy_Ann_%26_Andy:_A_Musical_Adventure" title="Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure">Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Biography">Biography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_David&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Biography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Early_life">Early life</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_David&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Born in <a href="/wiki/1921_in_Romania" title="1921 in Romania">1921</a> in <a href="/wiki/Cluj" class="mw-redirect" title="Cluj">Cluj</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Romania" title="Kingdom of Romania">Romania</a>, to an <a href="/wiki/Hungarians" title="Hungarians">ethnic Hungarian</a> family, <b>Thérèse "Tissa" David</b><sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> was the second oldest of her family's ten children.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She first became interested in animation after watching the 1937 <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> animated film, <i><a href="/wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)" title="Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937 film)">Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David initially earned a degree as a teacher.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She then enrolled at the Academy of Beaux Arts in Budapest.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, she dropped out of the school to begin her career as an assistant animator at Magyar Film Iroda, a Budapest studio.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2002, she described seeing her first animation project as, "the most exciting moment in my life."<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She survived the bombings during the <a href="/wiki/Siege_of_Budapest" title="Siege of Budapest">Siege of Budapest</a> in 1944 by eating beans and horse meat.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David became the co-owner of the Studio Mackassy and Trsi after the end of World War II, where she oversaw the animated productions.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bonjour_Paris"><i>Bonjour Paris</i></h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_David&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Bonjour Paris"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>David moved to Paris, France, in March 1950 with her friend, <a href="/wiki/Judit_Reigl" title="Judit Reigl">Judit Reigl</a>, to escape the <a href="/wiki/People%27s_Republic_of_Hungary" class="mw-redirect" title="People's Republic of Hungary">Hungarian Communist</a> authorities.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She initially worked as a <a href="/wiki/Maid" title="Maid">maid</a> and cleaner in Paris while she learned <a href="/wiki/French_language" title="French language">French</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David became the animation director and principal animator for the animated film, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bonjour_Paris&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Bonjour Paris (page does not exist)">Bonjour Paris</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonjour_Paris_!" class="extiw" title="fr:Bonjour Paris !">fr</a>]</span></i>, after less than a year of living in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She became the second woman to direct an animated <a href="/wiki/Feature_film" title="Feature film">feature film</a> with her work on <i>Bonjour Paris</i>, which would be released in 1953.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (The first female animator to direct an animated film was <a href="/wiki/Lotte_Reiniger" title="Lotte Reiniger">Lotte Reiniger</a>.)<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David also worked for <a href="/wiki/Paul_Grimault" title="Paul Grimault">Paul Grimault</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jean_Image" title="Jean Image">Jean Image</a>, both of whom were film producers, while living in Paris.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Career_in_the_United_States">Career in the United States</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_David&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Career in the United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1955, David emigrated to the United States and learned <a href="/wiki/English_language" title="English language">English</a>, settling in <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1956, David joined <a href="/wiki/UPA_(animation_studio)" class="mw-redirect" title="UPA (animation studio)">UPA</a>, where she became the assistant of animator <a href="/wiki/Grim_Natwick" title="Grim Natwick">Grim Natwick</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She first worked with Natwick while both were employed at <a href="/wiki/UPA_(animation_studio)" class="mw-redirect" title="UPA (animation studio)">UPA</a> <a href="/wiki/Animation_studio" title="Animation studio">animation studio</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David and Natwick later partnered for <a href="/wiki/Freelance" class="mw-redirect" title="Freelance">freelance</a> work for hundreds of animated <a href="/wiki/Television_commercial" class="mw-redirect" title="Television commercial">television commercials</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David and Natwick also collaborated to create the last <a href="/wiki/Theatrical_short" class="mw-redirect" title="Theatrical short">theatrical short</a> released starring the character, <a href="/wiki/Mr._Magoo" title="Mr. Magoo">Mr. Magoo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Her television commercial portfolio, which spanned the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, included spots for <a href="/w/index.php?title=Piel%27s_Beer&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Piel's Beer (page does not exist)">Piel's Beer</a>, for which she drew the characters, Bert and Harry, who were voiced by <a href="/wiki/Bob_and_Ray" title="Bob and Ray">Bob and Ray</a>, an American <a href="/wiki/Comedy_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Comedy team">comedy team</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David also created animated commercials for <a href="/wiki/Barneys_New_York" title="Barneys New York">Barneys New York</a>, <a href="/wiki/Vlasic_Pickles" title="Vlasic Pickles">Vlasic Pickles</a>, <a href="/wiki/WQXR-FM" title="WQXR-FM">WQXR</a>, <a href="/wiki/Perrier" title="Perrier">Perrier</a>, Esso and Shell, <a href="/wiki/IBM" title="IBM">IBM</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cheerios" title="Cheerios">Cheerios</a> and <a href="/wiki/Excedrin" class="mw-redirect" title="Excedrin">Excedrin</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David also worked on films, <a href="/wiki/Short_film" title="Short film">short films</a>, and commercials with husband and wife animators, <a href="/wiki/John_Hubley" title="John Hubley">John Hubley</a> and <a href="/wiki/Faith_Hubley" title="Faith Hubley">Faith Hubley</a>, for <a href="/wiki/Hubley_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Hubley Studios">Hubley Studios</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her credits with the Hubleys included <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Of_Demons_and_Men&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Of Demons and Men (page does not exist)">Of Demons and Men</a></i> and <i>Eggs</i>, both released in 1970, and the 1974 short film, <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Cockaboody&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Cockaboody (page does not exist)">Cockaboody</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David animated the little girls in <i>Cockaboody</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She animated two characters, a man and a woman, for the Hubleys' 1976 independent animated film, <i><a href="/wiki/Everybody_Rides_the_Carousel" title="Everybody Rides the Carousel">Everybody Rides the Carousel</a></i>. Actress <a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> provided the voice for David's young woman in the film.<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David, already an animation pioneer, became one of the first women to animate a major film character with the release of <i><a href="/wiki/Raggedy_Ann_%26_Andy:_A_Musical_Adventure" title="Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure">Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure</a></i> in 1977.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David animated the Raggedy Ann character for the film, which was directed by <a href="/wiki/Richard_Williams_(animator)" title="Richard Williams (animator)">Richard Williams</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cb_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cb-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She noted that "I project a lot of myself into Raggedy Ann."<sup id="cite_ref-wsj_2-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wsj-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1977, David told the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> that she designed Raggedy Ann as "a plain Jane with a heart of candy – and she's all female."<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She elaborated on the production during the same interview saying, "If the work is good, then perhaps I will prove a point ... To create a female character in an animated film, you must think like a woman and 'feel' like a woman. In other words, you must be a woman."<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nytimes-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David began animating for <a href="/wiki/R.O._Blechman" class="mw-redirect" title="R.O. Blechman">R.O. Blechman</a> in the late 1970s.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her work with Blechman included television productions, both released in 1977: a television film, <i><a href="/wiki/Simple_Gifts" title="Simple Gifts">Simple Gifts</a></i> and a <a href="/wiki/Television_special" title="Television special">special</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/Doonesbury" title="Doonesbury">A Doonesbury Special</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1988, David was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Winsor_McCay_Award" title="Winsor McCay Award">Winsor McCay Award</a> during the <a href="/wiki/Annie_Awards" title="Annie Awards">Annie Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>David collaborated with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Sporn" title="Michael Sporn">Michael Sporn</a> Animation later in her career,<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> working on Sporn's 1990 adaptation of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Marzipan_Pig" title="The Marzipan Pig">The Marzipan Pig</a></i>, as well as <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ira_Sleeps_Over&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ira Sleeps Over (page does not exist)">Ira Sleeps Over</a></i>, a 1991 animated television film.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> David also served as the <a href="/wiki/Animation_director" title="Animation director">animation director</a> for <i>Poe</i>, based on the life of <a href="/wiki/Edgar_Allan_Poe" title="Edgar Allan Poe">Edgar Allan Poe</a>, which Sporn released in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-variety_3-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Death">Death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Tissa_David&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>David died from a recently diagnosed brain tumor at her apartment in the <a href="/wiki/Upper_East_Side" title="Upper East Side">Upper East Side</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>, New York City, on August 21, 2012, at the age of 91.<sup id="cite_ref-latimes_1-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-latimes-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span 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