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• As soon as he completed his schooling Gene Deitch started his career in North American Aviation.
• He started his pilot training in 1943 and even completed the program but retired honorably in next year (1944).
• Along with this job he also used to work for a magazine named “The Record Changer”.

• In 1955 he started his apprenticeship with UPA and later became the creative director of “Terrytoons”. Working with UPA he created “The Real-Great Adventures of Terr’ble Thompson!”
• He wanted to create “Munro” which was a short animated movie, for which he had to shift to Prague.
• It was the plan that he will stay there only for 10 days but later circumstances changed and he made his mind to live there permanently.
• In 1961 he released “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and it became the best-animated movie of 1961 and even received the award for that.
• From 1960-1963 he created famous “Tom & Jerry” and also directed “Popeye”.
• In one of his interviews, he said that some of the viewers wrote him letters and described “Tom & Jerry” as their favorites.
• He ruled the cartoon industry and the character like Tom and Jerry proved to be history’s most loved characters.
• It has been more than 50 years since these cartoons first got created but they are still favorites of the people.
• There are no proper records regarding the possessions and assets of Gene Deitch but according to our estimate, his net worth has to be somewhere around $2-3 million.
• He accepted that Stb (Státní bezpečnost) taped his phone but they never called him for any sort of investigation and interrogation.
• After creating “Tom & Jerry” some people explained it as Gene’s worst creation.
• In 2003 he received a lifetime achievement award from “ASIFA-Hollywood”.
• His kids are involved in the same profession as their father was.
• Many people do not know but in some early episodes, Tom was shown walking on his four legs which later got changed.
• MGM was not ready to air Tom & Jerry as they thought that there are very less-chances for cartoons like to succeed.
• The remastered version of “Tom and Jerry – The Gene Deitch Collection” released in 2015 whereas the original one was released in the 1960s.
• In the year 2012 one of his lost movies got released on YouTube.