Writing

Jules Feiffer

Born — Died

1929-01-26 — 2025-01-17

Place of birth

The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

20 titles

Known for

American Masters poster
7.0

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists, filmmakers, and others who have left an indelible impression on the cultural landscape of the United States.

American Masters

1986

Popeye poster
5.6

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Popeye

1980

Carnal Knowledge poster
6.6

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

Carnal Knowledge

1971

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle poster
7.5

Examines the dawn of the comic book genre and its powerful legacy, as well as the evolution of the characters who leapt from the pages over the last 75 years and their ongoing worldwide cultural impact. It chronicles how these disposable diversions were subject to intense government scrutiny for their influence on American children and how they were created in large part by the children of immigrants whose fierce loyalty to a new homeland laid the foundation for a multi-billion-dollar industry that is an influential part of our national identity.

Superheroes: A Never-Ending Battle

2013

ABC Close-Up! poster
6.0

This long-running ABC News series of special reports/documentaries explores different aspects of life in the United States, featuring the most prominent ABC News correspondents of their times.

ABC Close-Up!

1960

Little Murders poster
6.7

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Little Murders

1971

Film credits

2010s · 1 titles

Series credits

Behind the camera

Popeye poster
5.6

Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.

Popeye

1980

Carnal Knowledge poster
6.6

Two lifelong friends navigate complex sexual encounters and emotional entanglements, wrestling with societal norms and personal desires.

Carnal Knowledge

1971

Little Murders poster
6.7

A young nihilistic New Yorker copes with pervasive urban violence, obscene phone calls, rusty water pipes, electrical blackouts, paranoia, and ethnic-racial conflict during a typical summer of the 1970s.

Little Murders

1971

I Want to Go Home poster
4.8

Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.

I Want to Go Home

1989

Oh! Calcutta! poster
3.4

Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta!" is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the skits feature one or more performers in a state of undress, simulating sex, or both. The show sparked considerable controversy at the time because it featured extended scenes of total nudity, both male and female. The title is taken from a painting by Clovis Trouille, itself a pun on "O quel cul t'as!" French for "What an arse you have!".

Oh! Calcutta!

1972

Bernard and Huey poster
4.8

Two old friends reunite, which causes complications.

Bernard and Huey

2018

Puss in Boots poster
5.0

A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre Woodard, George Kirby, and Brock Peters. Narrated by Shelley Duvall.

Puss in Boots

1985

I Lost My Bear poster
8.0

What do you do when your best toy disappears and no one will help you find it? Jules Feiffer's spunky little detective learns that if you keep on searching, you might just discover more than you expected!

I Lost My Bear

2005

Harold Swerg poster
9.0

This humorous live-action version of Jules Feiffer's short story introduces us to Harold Swerg, a contented file clerk who is also the world's greatest athlete. Representing the U.S. in the Olympics, Harold shocks the world by achieving success based on his own standards.

Harold Swerg

1988

Boomtown poster
6.7

The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.

Boomtown

1985

Bark, George poster
NR

George was a dog. His mother was a dog too. George made different sounds, which made his mother take him to the vet/veterinarian. A veterinarian/vet will take an animal's health and temperatures. The vet said "Please bark, George" every single time after George's mother went on very desperate. Which was a reference to when George made strange sounds a dog doesn't say, George's mother tells before it happens, "No, George. A ___ goes "___". A dog goes "arf!" Now bark, George." Good thing George said the right thing. But before it happened, the vet put on his latex gloves and pulled out the animals.

Bark, George

2003

Munro poster
6.0

A four-year-old boy is drafted into the army.

Munro

1961