Leon Schlesinger

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Born: 1884-05-20
Died: 1949-12-25
From: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Gender: Male
Popularity: 0.2

Biography

Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising, to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio.

Awards & Nominations0 won · 6 nominated

Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Greetings Bait

1944
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Pigs in a Polka

1943
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

1942
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

Rhapsody in Rivets

1942
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

A Wild Hare

1941
Nominated

Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

It's Got Me Again!

1932

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Production320 titles

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