
Known for
Directing
Born
December 15, 1931
Birthplace
Watertown, Connecticut, USA
Died
January 12, 2002 (aged 70)
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 by 1959 as a producer and director for the animate...
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