Wladyslaw Starewicz

Birthday: 8/8/1882
Deathday: 2/26/1965
Place of birth: Moscow, Russian Empire
Fame for: Directing
Also known as: Ladislas Starewitch, Ladislas Starevich

Biography

Wladyslaw 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ladislas Starevich, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.