Frank Leah
Frank Leah (1886-1972) was an illustrator, caricaturist and newspaper art editor based in Dublin, Ireland.
Frank Leah
- Born
- 1886 · Stockport.
- Died
- 1972
- Nationality
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Occupation
- cartoonist · animator · painter
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Frank Leah (1886-1972) was an illustrator, caricaturist and newspaper art editor based in Dublin, Ireland.
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Frank Leah (1886–1972) was a British animator, cartoonist and painter. The animator was born in Stockport. Frank Leah worked in Dublin and London and lived in Kensington and Kolkata.
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• Illustration — Caricature of Fred O'Donovan (actor) by Frank Leah (1917) He worked for multiple Dublin newspapers and periodicals including the Weekly Freeman, Evening Telegraph, and the short-lived cinema and theatre publication The Irish Limelight. In 1917 he was the animator of the early Irish animated film, Ten Days' Leave. He made portraits of many well-known Dublin personalities and famous Irish people including Michael Collins, Arthur Griffith and Éamon De Valera.
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Leah was born in 1886 in Stockport, England into a working class family, and was the eldest of many siblings. He sold his first cartoon at the age of 12 and left home at 15.
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