Izzy Sparber

Production

Izzy Sparber

Born — Died

1906-03-07 — 1958-08-29

Known for

Production

Credits

42 titles

Known for

Gulliver's Travels poster
6.2

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

Gulliver's Travels

1939

Mr. Bug Goes to Town poster
6.3

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

1941

Alona on the Sarong Seas poster
8.0

Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.

Alona on the Sarong Seas

1942

Floor Flusher poster
6.2

Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.

Floor Flusher

1954

Destruction Inc. poster
6.5

Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!

Destruction Inc.

1942

I'll Be Skiing Ya poster
5.2

Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.

I'll Be Skiing Ya

1947

Film credits

Behind the camera

Gulliver's Travels poster
6.2

Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.

Gulliver's Travels

1939

Mr. Bug Goes to Town poster
6.3

The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.

Mr. Bug Goes to Town

1941

Alona on the Sarong Seas poster
8.0

Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.

Alona on the Sarong Seas

1942

Alona on the Sarong Seas poster
8.0

Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.

Alona on the Sarong Seas

1942

Floor Flusher poster
6.2

Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.

Floor Flusher

1954

Destruction Inc. poster
6.5

Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!

Destruction Inc.

1942

I'll Be Skiing Ya poster
5.2

Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.

I'll Be Skiing Ya

1947

I'll Be Skiing Ya poster
5.2

Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.

I'll Be Skiing Ya

1947

King of the Mardi Gras poster
6.9

A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.

King of the Mardi Gras

1935

Wigwam Whoopee poster
10.0

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.

Wigwam Whoopee

1948

Lunch with a Punch poster
6.7

Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him.

Lunch with a Punch

1952

Showdown poster
6.4

Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.

Showdown

1942

Private Eye Popeye poster
5.9

Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.

Private Eye Popeye

1954

Taxi-Turvy poster
6.7

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.

Taxi-Turvy

1954

Olive Oyl for President poster
8.5

Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform.

Olive Oyl for President

1948

Nearlyweds poster
5.1

Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.

Nearlyweds

1957

Abusement Park poster
6.5

Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.

Abusement Park

1947

The Mummy Strikes poster
6.3

Egyptologists are attacked by mummies, drawing the attention of Superman.

The Mummy Strikes

1943

W'ere on our way to Rio poster
7.0

Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl.

W'ere on our way to Rio

1944

Popeye's 20th Anniversary poster
6.6

Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').

Popeye's 20th Anniversary

1954

Popeye's 20th Anniversary poster
6.6

Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').

Popeye's 20th Anniversary

1954

Hill-billing and Cooing poster
7.2

Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.

Hill-billing and Cooing

1956

Boo Scout poster
6.4

Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.

Boo Scout

1951

The Friendly Ghost poster
6.3

Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.

The Friendly Ghost

1945

The Friendly Ghost poster
6.3

Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.

The Friendly Ghost

1945

Peep in the Deep poster
7.7

Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.

Peep in the Deep

1946

A Hull of a Mess poster
7.0

Popeye and Bluto own adjacent shipyards. They are given the plans for a battleship; whichever finishes first gets the contract for the fleet. Bluto does his patriotic duty by refraining from his usual sabotage; his own incompetence provides much of the entertainment, until the end, when Popeye finishes first. Bluto, invited to help launch the ship, provides a bottle of champagne filled with nitroglycerine. Popeye's ship is destroyed, but after his spinach, he manages to turn out a ship every 5 seconds or so, launching an entire fleet for the war effort.

A Hull of a Mess

1942

Penny Antics poster
8.0

A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.

Penny Antics

1955

Penny Antics poster
8.0

A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.

Penny Antics

1955

Beaus Will Be Beaus poster
6.7

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...

Beaus Will Be Beaus

1955

Beaus Will Be Beaus poster
6.7

Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...

Beaus Will Be Beaus

1955

Barking Dogs Don't Fite poster
8.0

Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller.

Barking Dogs Don't Fite

1949

Popeye's Mirthday poster
6.7

Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways.

Popeye's Mirthday

1953

I Don't Scare poster
6.3

Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th.

I Don't Scare

1956

A Lamb in a Jam poster
9.0

Blackie the black lamb is chased by a wolf trying to shear Blackie's wool for a winter coat.

A Lamb in a Jam

1945

Billion Dollar Limited poster
7.0

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

Billion Dollar Limited

1942

To Boo or Not to Boo poster
7.3

Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People".

To Boo or Not to Boo

1951

Fright to the Finish poster
6.8

At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks.

Fright to the Finish

1954

Quack-a Doodle-Doo poster
4.8

His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue of one and all. Huey is a hero basking in his new-found popularity.

Quack-a Doodle-Doo

1950

Rocket to Mars poster
6.7

Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).

Rocket to Mars

1946