Gábor Csupó

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Gábor Csupó (Hungarian: Csupo Gábor , born September 29, 1952 in Budapest ) is a Hungarian animator , writer , director and music producer .

Life

Gábor Csupó attended art school for four years before starting his animation training at Pannonia Film Studios in 1971 . In 1975 he left communist Hungary. Together with four other artists (including Leslie Mandoki ) he fled to Austria through a darkened train tunnel. After stops in West Germany and Denmark, he finally landed in Stockholm . He worked there in a friend's animation studio and met his future wife and business partner Arlene Klasky in 1978. In 1979 he moved to Hollywood, where he married Arlene Klasky and worked as an animator at the Hanna Barbera Studios . In 1981 he founded the animation studio Klasky Csupo with his wife .

The studio had its breakthrough in 1988 with the Simpsons Shorts , which were featured on the Tracey Ullman Show . Due to the success of the shorts, he was also hired as a producer for the first three seasons of The Simpsons . In the following years the studio produced the Rugrats , Duckman and Aaahh !!! Monster .

In 1994 he founded the record company Tone Casualties , with which he released experimental music by Holger Czukay , Drew Neumann , Paul Schütze , Kuroi Mori , Borut Kržišnik , Wahorn , Controlled Bleeding and his own work. Gábor Csupó also designed the cover of the 1996 album The Lost Episodes by his late friend Frank Zappa .

He has five children two of them are from his business partner and ex-wife Arlene Klasky and three from his second wife Bret Crain .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1980: Dance
  • 1989: Shadrach
  • 1990: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
  • 1991–1992: The Simpsons (The Simpsons)
  • 1993: Recycle Rex
  • 2007: Bridge to Terabithia (Bridge to Terabithia)
  • 2008: Immigrants (LA Dolce Vita)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of Gabor Csupo on klaskycsupo.com . Retrieved December 15, 2012.
  2. ↑ History of klaskycsupo.com . Retrieved December 15, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Csupó, Gábor
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian draftsman, writer, director and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest