Paul Fierlinger

Director

March 15, 1936 (89 years)

† April 4, 2025

Ashiya, Japan

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

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My Dog Tulip

The story of a man who rescues a German Shepherd and how the two become fast friends. Based on the 1956 memoir of the same name by BBC editor, novelist and memoirist J. R. Ackerley.

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Teeny Little Super Guy

Teeny Little Super Guy was an animated short featured on PBS's Sesame Street. The shorts featured a small animated man, the Teeny Little Super Guy, who resides in a live-action, regular-sized kitchen. Robert W. Morrow described the shorts as including "parables of childhood conflict and striving."

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Me...Jane

Patrick McDonnell tells the story of the young Jane Goodall and her special childhood toy chimpanzee named Jubilee. As the young Jane observes the natural world around her with wonder, she dreams of "a life living with and helping all animals," until one day she finds that her dream has come true.

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Drawn from Memory

Fierlinger concentrates his considerable talents as an animator to recount through fragmented memories, vivid recollections, and the occasional evocative photograph his life as the rebellious son of Jan Fierlinger, Czechoslovakian career politician.

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King of the Rest

Based on his own personal memories of his long-time close friend, actor and voice actor Jim Thurman, Fierlinger recounts a number of unbelievable events they experienced together. A memory travelogue.

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Still Life with Animated Dogs

In STILL LIFE WITH ANIMATED DOGS we meet Roosevelt, Ike, Johnson and Spinnaker, the canine companions who helped shape Fierlinger's evolution as an artist and as a man. Vivid animation illustrates the adventures of the endearing dogs who shared their owner's 40-year journey from despair to wonder.

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Slocum at Sea with Himself

I was a self-taught sailor of marginal skills when I did something I had never attempted before: I was solo sailing our 30 foot Islander into her home port and had noticed that there was no one in sight. I therefore decided to sail her directly into her slip without engine or crew. I turned her about to head directly into the on-shore breeze, locked the wheel, dropped both sails as she lost speed on due course, and casually, letting her first just kiss the slip, I stepped off her deck to cleat her home … done.

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FROM ELIZA to Paul & Sandra

A FILM BY PAUL AND SANDRA FIERLINGER TO THE MUSIC OF SHAY LYNCH THIS IS A PORTRAIT OF AN ACTUAL EMAIL EXCHANGE

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A Room Nearby

Paul Fierlinger's unique animation captures five individuals from diverse backgrounds as they describe their bouts with loneliness, its challenges and benefits.

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And Then I'll Stop... Does Any of This Sound Familiar?

Using interviews with re-hab patients, a series of stories takes us through the habits, downfall and subsequent acknowledgment and recovery of each addict.

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Fresh Colors

"This semi-animated documentary film portrays Czechoslovakian animator Paul Fierlinger's arrival to the United States and covers his production of a film that presents the history, legends, and significance of the American flag. The film was produced by Concept Films" (US National Archives).

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