Ernest Pintoff
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1931-12-15 (71 years old)
Deathday
2002-01-12
Place of Birth
Watertown, Connecticut, USA
Also known As
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Ernest Pintoff
Biography
Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931 in Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an American film and television director, screenwriter and film producer. He won the Oscar for Best Animated Short for The Critic (1963), a satire on modern art written and narrated by Mel Brooks. Born in Watertown, Connecticut, but raised in New York City, Pintoff originally began as a jazz trumpeter who taught painting and design at Michigan State University. However, he had always shown an interest in the animation of film and began writing in 1956. His career took off in 1957, when he wrote the script for Flebus, followed ...
Production
1965
as Music
1982
as Director
1979
as Director
1981
as Director
1963
as Director
1957
as Director
1959
as Director
1971
as Director
1963
as Sound
1963
as Producer
1971
as Director
1965
as Director
1960
as Director
1965
as Writer
1978
as Director
1962
as Writer
1962
as Director
1973
as Writer
1973
as Director
1973
as Executive Producer
1967
1967
1967
1959
as Writer
1959
as Music
1956
as Director
1971
as Writer
1971
as Producer
1956
as Director
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