Izzy Sparber

Career Overview

Izzy Sparber has 227 screen credits in a career dating back to 1935. Signature works include Spooky Swabs, Popeye's 20th Anniversary, Alona on the Sarong Seas. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Production

Gender

male

Known Credits

227

Birth Date

1906-03-07

Known For

• 

  Spooky Swabs
• 

  Popeye's 20th Anniversary
• 

  Alona on the Sarong Seas
• 

  Patriotic Popeye
• 

  Taxi-Turvy
• Grateful Gus

Frequent Collaborators

• Jack Mercer (5 collaborations)
• Mae Questel (3 collaborations)
• Jackson Beck (3 collaborations)
• Sid Raymond (2 collaborations)
• Gilbert Mack (1 collaborations)
• Allen Swift (1 collaborations)
• Margie Hines (1 collaborations)
• Dayton Allen (1 collaborations)

Credits

• writing (8 credits)

  • Fleischer Cartoons: The Art & Inventions of Max Fleischer

    story

    writing
    2024
  • Electric Earthquake

    story

    writing
    1942
  • Billion Dollar Limited

    writer

    writing
    1942
  • Mr. Bug Goes to Town

    writer

    writing
    1941
  • The Mechanical Monsters

    story

    writing
    1941
  • Superman

    story

    writing
    1941
  • Gulliver's Travels

    screenplay

    writing
    1939
  • King of the Mardi Gras

    writer

    writing
    1935

• visual effects (1 credits)

  • Ça cartoon : Spécial Popeye

    animation director

    visual effects
    2005

• directing (156 credits)

  • Travelaffs

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Chew Chew Baby

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Okey Dokey Donkey

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Finnegan's Flea

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Frighty Cat

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Heir Restorer

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Dante Dreamer

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Cock-a-Doodle Dino

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Spooky Swabs

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Ghost of Honor

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Hooky Spooky

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Mr. Money Gags

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Patriotic Popeye

    director

    directing
    1957
  • The Crystal Brawl

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Fishing Tackler

    director

    directing
    1957
  • A Haul in One

    director

    directing
    1956
  • I Don't Scare

    director

    directing
    1956
  • Parlez Vous Woo

    director

    directing
    1956
  • Mousetro Herman

    director

    directing
    1956
  • Assault and Flattery

    director

    directing
    1956
  • Dutch Treat

    director

    directing
    1956
  • Boo Kind to Animals

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Cops Is Tops

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Mister and Mistletoe

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Mouse Trapeze

    director

    directing
    1955
  • News Hound

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Beaus Will Be Beaus

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Penny Antics

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Keep Your Grin Up

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Nurse to Meet Ya

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Dizzy Dishes

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Cookin' with Gags

    director

    directing
    1955
  • No Ifs, Ands or Butts

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Boo Ribbon Winner

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Fido Beta Kappa

    director

    directing
    1954
  • The Oily Bird

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Bride and Gloom

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Popeye's 20th Anniversary

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Crazytown

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Boo Moon

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Floor Flusher

    director

    directing
    1954
  • Boos and Saddles

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Huey's Ducky Daddy

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Do or Diet

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Firemen's Brawl

    director

    directing
    1953
  • No Place Like Rome

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Invention Convention

    director

    directing
    1953
  • North Pal

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Herman the Catoonist

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Winner by a Hare

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Child Sockology

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Of Mice and Magic

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Frightday the 13th

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Hysterical History

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Feast and Furious

    director

    directing
    1952
  • True Boo

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Shuteye Popeye

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Pig-a-Boo

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Gag and Baggage

    director

    directing
    1952
  • City Kitty

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Friend or Phony

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Spunky Skunky

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Law and Audrey

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Fun At The Fair

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Ghost of the Town

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Lunch with a Punch

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Off We Glow

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Popeye's Pappy

    director

    directing
    1952
  • By Leaps and Hounds

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Casper Takes a Bow-Wow

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Punch and Judo

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Vegetable Vaudeville

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Audrey the Rainmaker

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Casper Comes to Clown

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Pilgrim Popeye

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Sing Again Of Michigan

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Miners Forty Niners

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Hold the Lion Please

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Mice Paradise

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Tweet Music

    director

    directing
    1951
  • One Quack Mind

    director

    directing
    1951
  • Once Upon a Rhyme

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Boos in the Nite

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Gobs of Fun

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Pleased to Eat You

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Heap Hep Injuns

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Win, Place and Showboat

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Teacher's Pest

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Short'nin' Bread

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Gym Jam

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Quack-a Doodle-Doo

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Land of the Lost Jewels

    director

    directing
    1950
  • Snow Foolin'

    director

    directing
    1949
  • The Big Drip

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Barking Dogs Don't Fite

    director

    directing
    1949
  • The Big Flame Up

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Marriage Wows

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Silly Hillbilly

    director

    directing
    1949
  • A Balmy Swami

    director

    directing
    1949
  • The Ski's the Limit

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Hot Air Aces

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Spring Song

    director

    directing
    1949
  • A Mutt in a Rut

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Little Red School Mouse

    director

    directing
    1949
  • Comin' Round the Mountain

    director

    directing
    1949
  • The Little Cut-Up

    director

    directing
    1949
  • The Lone Star State

    director

    directing
    1948
  • A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing

    director

    directing
    1948
  • The Land of the Lost

    director

    directing
    1948
  • There's Good Boos To-Night

    director

    directing
    1948
  • Wigwam Whoopee

    director

    directing
    1948
  • Flip Flap

    director

    directing
    1948
  • Olive Oyl for President

    director

    directing
    1948
  • The Circus Comes to Clown

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Safari So Good

    director

    directing
    1947
  • A Bout with a Trout

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Wotta Knight

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Cad and Caddy

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Much Ado About Mutton

    director

    directing
    1947
  • I'll Be Skiing Ya

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Abusement Park

    director

    directing
    1947
  • Musica-Lulu

    director

    directing
    1947
  • The Goal Rush

    director

    directing
    1946
  • Rodeo Romeo

    director

    directing
    1946
  • Sheep Shape

    director

    directing
    1946
  • Klondike Casanova

    director

    directing
    1946
  • Cheese Burglar

    director

    directing
    1946
  • Bargain Counter Attack

    director

    directing
    1946
  • The Friendly Ghost

    director

    directing
    1945
  • For Better or Nurse

    director

    directing
    1945
  • A Lamb in a Jam

    director

    directing
    1945
  • Shape Ahoy

    director

    directing
    1945
  • Tops in the Big Top

    director

    directing
    1945
  • Pop-Pie a la Mode

    director

    directing
    1945
  • Lulu's Birthday Party

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Lulu at the Zoo

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Yankee Doodle Donkey

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Lulu's Indoor Outing

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Moving Aweigh

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Spinach Packin' Popeye

    director

    directing
    1944
  • The Anvil Chorus Girl

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Lulu in Hollywood

    director

    directing
    1944
  • W'ere on our way to Rio

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Lulu Gets the Birdie

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Eggs Don't Bounce

    director

    directing
    1944
  • Her Honor, the Mare

    director

    directing
    1943
  • Wood-Peckin'

    director

    directing
    1943
  • Too Weak to Work

    director

    directing
    1943
  • The Mummy Strikes

    director

    directing
    1943
  • Spinach Fer Britain

    director

    directing
    1943
  • Destruction Inc.

    director

    directing
    1942
  • Showdown

    director

    directing
    1942
  • A Hull of a Mess

    director

    directing
    1942
  • Alona on the Sarong Seas

    director

    directing
    1942

• production (60 credits)

  • Grateful Gus

    producer

    production
    1958
  • Spooky Swabs

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Hooky Spooky

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Spree Lunch

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Patriotic Popeye

    producer

    production
    1957
  • The Crystal Brawl

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Cat In The Act

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Nearlyweds

    producer

    production
    1957
  • A Haul in One

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Parlez Vous Woo

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Insect to Injury

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Assault and Flattery

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Penguin for Your Thoughts

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Out to Punch

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Popeye for President

    producer

    production
    1956
  • Hill-billing and Cooing

    producer

    production
    1956
  • A Job for a Gob

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Mister and Mistletoe

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Gift of Gag

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Beaus Will Be Beaus

    producer

    production
    1955
  • A Bicep Built for Two

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Penny Antics

    producer

    production
    1955
  • Private Eye Popeye

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Fright to the Finish

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Bride and Gloom

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Candy Cabaret

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Taxi-Turvy

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Popeye's 20th Anniversary

    producer

    production
    1954
  • Toreadorable

    producer

    production
    1953
  • Better Bait Than Never

    producer

    production
    1953
  • Popeye's Mirthday

    producer

    production
    1953
  • Ancient Fistory

    producer

    production
    1953
  • Land of Lost Watches

    producer

    production
    1951
  • The Fly's Last Flight

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Leprechauns Gold

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Tar with a Star

    producer

    production
    1949
  • A Balmy Swami

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Hot Air Aces

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Lumberjack and Jill

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Popeye's Premiere

    producer

    production
    1949
  • Symphony in Spinach

    producer

    production
    1948
  • Robin Hood-Winked

    producer

    production
    1948
  • Pre-Hysterical Man

    producer

    production
    1948
  • Naughty But Mice

    producer

    production
    1947
  • The Mild West

    producer

    production
    1947
  • The Wee Men

    producer

    production
    1947
  • Cad and Caddy

    producer

    production
    1947
  • I'll Be Skiing Ya

    producer

    production
    1947
  • A Scout with the Gout

    producer

    production
    1947
  • The Fistic Mystic

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Rodeo Romeo

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Rocket to Mars

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Peep in the Deep

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Klondike Casanova

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Service with a Guile

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Cheese Burglar

    producer

    production
    1946
  • Bargain Counter Attack

    producer

    production
    1946
  • The Friendly Ghost

    producer

    production
    1945
  • Magica-Lulu

    producer

    production
    1945
  • Alona on the Sarong Seas

    producer

    production
    1942

• actors (2 credits)

  • Frightday the 13th

    Mole (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1953
  • Casper Takes a Bow-Wow

    Flea (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    1951