Charles H. Schneer

Personal Info

Know For

Production

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-05-05 (89 years old)

Deathday

2009-01-21

Place of Birth

Norfolk, Virginia, USA

Charles H. Schneer

Biography

Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he graduated from Columbia University in 1940. Serving in the US Army's Signal Corps Photographic Unit during the war, and moved to Hollywood following demobilisation. After joining Columbia Pictures, he was introduced to Harryhausen by a mutual friend from Schneer's time in the Army.[1] Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge. The octopus had only six tentacles, which Schneer is reported to have been correct in claiming no one would notice.[2] This film made use of stop-motion photography which the two men were to use to greater effe...

Production

1981

1961

1970

The Executioner

as Producer

1964

1969

1948

1959

1957

1959

Face of a Fugitive

as Executive Producer

1967

Half a Sixpence

as Producer

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