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Ernest Pintoff

Ernest Pintoff

DirectorProducerWriterSoundArt Dec 15 (died age 70) Watertown, Connecticut, USA 1956–1985 (29 year career)
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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 alw…

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