--- name: "Jules Feiffer" canonical: "https://film.one/person/jules-feiffer" fi1m_id: "jules-feiffer" imdb_id: "nm0270547" tmdb_id: 69051 wikidata_id: "Q975547" roles: ["Writer"] born: "26 January 1929" died: "17 January 2025" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "writer" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-10-04T16:56:33.754830+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Jules Feiffer ## Identity Jules Feiffer - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jules-feiffer - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** jules-feiffer - **IMDb ID:** nm0270547 - **TMDB ID:** 69051 - **Wikidata ID:** Q975547 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975547, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270547/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69051 Writer. Born 26 January 1929 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. Died 17 January 2025. ## Details - **Work:** Writer - **Born:** 26 January 1929, The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA - **Died:** 17 January 2025 - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Feiffer, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q975547, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0270547/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69051 ## Biography Jules Feiffer was an American cartoonist, playwright and screenwriter. Born in the Bronx, New York City, on 26 January 1929, he died on 17 January 2025. He began his career assisting Will Eisner on the comic strip The Spirit and created the long-running satirical strip Feiffer for The Village Voice from 1956 to 2000. Feiffer wrote the screenplays for *Carnal Knowledge* (1971), directed by Mike Nichols, and *Popeye* (1980), directed by Robert Altman. He also wrote the play *Little Murders* (1967), which he adapted for the screen in 1971. In 1986 he received the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartooning. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, nytimes.com, britannica.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Popeye* (1980), Fi1m 64, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/popeye.md) ## Complete filmography (16) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Bernard and Huey* (2018), Writer - *Will Eisner: Portrait of a Sequential Artist* (2007), Actor - *I Lost My Bear* (2005), Writer - *Bark, George* (2003), Writer - *I Want to Go Home* (1989), Writer - *Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton* (1989), series, Writer - *Harold Swerg* (1988), Writer, Original Story - *Puss in Boots* (1985), Writer - *Boomtown* (1985), Writer - *Faerie Tale Theatre* (1982), series, Teleplay - *Popeye* (1980), Screenplay — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/popeye.md) - *Oh! Calcutta!* (1972), Writer - *Carnal Knowledge* (1971), Writer - *Little Murders* (1971), Theatre Play, Screenplay - *Munro* (1961), as Sergeant (voice) · Writer - *Foofle's Train Ride* (1959), Production Design ## Gallery - ![Publicity photo of Jules Feiffer (1976)](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-43c653bc6a45.jpg) Publicity photo of Jules Feiffer (1976) — Mary Ellen Mark, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Jules_Feiffer_-_1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Jules Feiffer (1958)](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-ab86bd9efddd.jpg) Jules Feiffer (1958) — Dick DeMarsico, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Jules_Feiffer-drawing.jpg/1280px-Jules_Feiffer-drawing.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jules Feiffer at Columbia University in late 2015](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-b3eb9f104f39.png) Jules Feiffer at Columbia University in late 2015 — Alex Lozupone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Loz_feiffer.png/1280px-Loz_feiffer.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-ee32cdcbd508.png) Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015) — Alex Lozupone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4a/Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h17m26s278.png/1280px-Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h17m26s278.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-ca5a56d9f11d.png) Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015) — Alex Lozupone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h43m27s256.png/1280px-Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h43m27s256.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/5539579/gallery-5c3c02ee0496.png) Jules Feiffer at a talk at Butler Library (at Columbia University) (2015) — Alex Lozupone, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a3/Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h18m15s979.png/1280px-Julesfeiffer_loz_Vlcsnap-2016-10-12-14h18m15s979.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Other awards — 3 won - Will Eisner Hall of Fame 2004: Will Eisner Hall of Fame (won) - Inkpot Award 1988: Inkpot Award (won) - George Polk Award 1961: George Polk Award (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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