Winsor McCay
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1869-09-26 (65 years old)
Deathday
1934-07-26
Place of Birth
Michigan, USA
Also known As
Zenas Winsor McCay
Silas
Winsor McCay
Biography
Zenas Winsor McCay (c. 1866–71 – July 26, 1934) was an American cartoonist and animator. He is best known for the comic strip Little Nemo (1905–14; 1924–26) and the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). For contractual reasons, he worked under the pen name Silas on the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend. McCay was an early animation pioneer; between 1911 and 1921 he self-financed and animated ten films, some of which survive only as fragments. The first three served in his vaudeville act; Gertie the Dinosaur was an interactive routine in which McCay appeared to give orders to a trained dinosaur. McCay and his assistants worked for tw...
Acting
1914
as Self
1911
as Himself
1918
as Himself
2004
as Himself
Production
1984
as Comic Book
1914
as Director
1914
as Writer
1911
as Director
1912
as Director
1912
as Writer
1921
as Director
1921
as Writer
1921
as Producer
1921
as Animation
1918
as Director
1918
as Writer
1921
as Director
1921
1921
as Director
1921
as Director
1921
as Director
1911
as Writer
1911
as Producer
1911
as Animation
1912
as Producer
1912
as Animation
1914
as Producer
1914
as Animation
1906
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1921
1921
as Writer
1921
1921
as Writer
2022
as Characters
1980
1989
as Original Story
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