Gabor Csupo is a Hungarian animator, film director, and producer. He has had a long career, but he is better known as the co-founder of animation studio Klasky Csupo. The other major co-founder was his business partner and wife Arlene Klasky. Csupo was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1952. At the time the country was known as the Hungarian People's Republic, a so-called "socialist republic" which served as a satellite state of the Soviet Union. He grew up during the Cold War by Elizabeth Goudge, the film received only a limited release in a hand full of countries. The main star of the film was teenage actress Dakota Blue Richards, relatively popular in her native United Kingdom. Csupo is living is semi-retirement in Hawaii for most of the 2010s, though he is reputedly attached to new projects and may yet make a comeback.
Last name pronounced "Chew-po"
In the television cartoon show "The Simpsons" the character Dr. Nick Riviera was intended to sound like Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) but the animators thought he sounded more like Gabor Csupo who was the head animator at the time. So Dr. Nick was drawn after Gabor.
Owns and runs the Tone Casualties and Casual Tonalities record labels.
The only possession he took with him when he fled communist Hungary in the 70s was his collection of Frank Zappa records. Csupo credits Zappa with helping him learn English. Csupo was also a crew member in the early seasons of The Simpsons, whose creator, Matt Groening, is also a huge fan of Zappa. Some of Zappas music has been used in Csupos show Duckman (of which Dweezil Zappa was a cast member).
