# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/willard-bowsky
# Generated: 2026-08-13T22:23:57.626Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/willard-bowsky"
name: "Willard Bowsky"
slug: "willard-bowsky"
description: "Willard Gustav Bowsky was an American animator best known for his work at Fleischer Studios in New York City and Miami, Florida, where he worked on cartoons featuring Betty Boop, Popeye the Sailor, and Superman, in addition to two feature-length animated films. Fellow Fleischer animator Shamus Culhane described Bowsky as \"what one might call a pre-McCarthy, gung ho, all-American Babbitt.\" He was described as being outspoken with antisemitic remarks, but skilled at animating complicated perspective shots and directing many of the jazz-influenced cartoons produced by the studio."
tagline: "American cartoonist and recipient of the Purple Heart medal (1907–1944)"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1907-09-26"
deathDate: "1944-11-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.52
  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.344925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101466/"
    handle:    "nm0101466"
sources:
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Bowsky"
    title: "Willard Bowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%B3%D9%83%D9%89"
    title: "ويلارد بوسكى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Bowsky"
    title: "Willard Bowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Bowsky"
    title: "Willard Bowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Bowsky"
    title: "Willard Bowsky"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A6%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9C%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%82%AD%E3%83%BC"
    title: "ウィラード・ボウスキー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2617428"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1123495"
    title: "Willard Bowsky"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump