William L. Snyder
William L. Snyder, Snyder actually William Lawrence ( born February 14, 1918 in Baltimore, Maryland, † June 3, 1998 in Livingston, New York ) was an American film producer.
Life
Snyder founded in 1949 the production company Rembrandt Films, who had committed to the import of films from Europe. Among the films that are so brought closer Rembrandt a U.S. audience, including the Czechoslovak animated puppet film The Emperor and the Nightingale of Jiří Trnka and Miloš Makovec from 1951, as well as the French films The white stallion and the red balloon. Snyder sat down with Gene Deitch, 1959 in Prague, where he produced a series of cartoons with Rembrandt Films. It developed also the cartoon series Popeye the Sailor (1960-1961, for King Features ), from 1961, a new animated series to the popular duo Tom and Jerry ( MGM / UA ), 1963 television series Krazy Kat ( for King Features / Paramount ) and from 1965 the Nudnik series to the cartoon character yaramaz Nudnik. Four short animated films by Deitch (director) and Snyder (Producer) received Oscar nominations, of which Munro won the 1961 Oscar for best animated short film.
In 1995, Snyder gave Rembrandt Films to his son Adam. He died three years later from the effects of Alzheimer's.