Aleksandr Ptushko
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1900-04-19 (73 years old)
Deathday
1973-03-06
Place of Birth
Lugansk, Lugansk uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Luhansk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine]
Also known As
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko
Alfred Posco
A. Ptushko
Александр Птушко
Aleksandr Ptushko
Biography
Aleksandr Lukich Ptushko (Russian: Александр Лукич Птушко, 19 April [O.S. 6 April] 1900 – 6 March 1973) was a Soviet animation and fantasy film director, and a People's Artist of the USSR (1969). Ptushko is frequently (and somewhat misleadingly) referred to as "the Soviet Walt Disney," because of his prominent early role in animation in the Soviet Union, though a more accurate comparison would be to Willis H. O'Brien or Ray Harryhausen. Some critics, such as Tim Lucas and Alan Upchurch, have also compared Ptushko to Italian filmmaker Mario Bava, who made fantasy and horror films with similarities to Ptushko's work and made similarly innovat...
Acting
1988
as self (archivefootage)
Production
1949
as Director
1964
as Director
1967
as Director
1946
as Director
1953
as Director
1961
as Director
1938
as Director
1935
as Director
1935
as Writer
1972
as Director
1972
as Writer
1967
as Screenplay
1937
as Director
1939
as Director
1967
as Writer
1959
as Director
1956
as Director
1938
as Writer
1946
as Art Direction
1932
as Director
1932
as Writer
1942
as Director of Photography
1936
as Writer
1938
as Writer
1932
as Art Direction
1936
as Writer
1938
as Writer
-
as Director
1936
as Art Direction
1961
as Art Direction
1945
as Director
1937
as Screenplay
1945
as Creative Director
1944
as Creative Director
1945
as Creative Director
1936
as Creative Director
1944
as Creative Director
-
as Writer
-
as Art Direction
1937
as Creative Director
1943
as Visual Effects Director
1944
as Visual Effects Director
1943
as Visual Effects Director
1942
as Visual Effects Director
1942
as Visual Effects Director
1967
as Director
1967
as Co-Art Director
1967
as Visual Effects Director
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