Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Born
August 8, 1882
Died
February 26, 1965 (age 82)
Place of Birth
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
Also Known As
Ladislas Starewitch
Ladislas Starevich
Владислав Старевич
Władysław Starewicz
Biography
Władysław Starewicz (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович Старе́вич; August 8, 1882 – February 26, 1965) was a Polish-Russian stop-motion animator notable as the author of the first puppet-animated film The Beautiful Leukanida (1912). He also used dead insects and other animals as protagonists of his films. Following the Russian Revolution, Starevich settled in France.
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