Ernest Pintoff

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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 orig... inally 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 animated short film, The Violinist. Narrated by Carl Reiner, the film earned Pintoff an Oscar nomination and illustrated a promising young career in directing film ahead of him.

In 1964, he won an Oscar for his direction of the 1963 film, The Critic, which was narrated by co-creator Mel Brooks and focused on a man with a grumpy voice trying to understand abstractions he observes.

On television, Pintoff directed many episodes of popular television series, including Hawaii Five-O (1968), Kojak (1968), The Six Million Dollar Man (1974), The Dukes of Hazard (1979), Falcon Crest (1981) and Voyagers! (1982). As part of NBC's "Experiments in Television" in the late 1960s, he also directed the documentaries This Is Marshall McLuhan and This Is Sholem Aleichem.

Pintoff produced and directed a number of low-budget independent films such as Harvey Middleman, Fireman (1965), Who Killed Mary What's 'Er Name? (1971) and Dynamite Chicken (1972), a film using a collection of old clips from music with appearances by John Lennon, Richard Pryor and Andy Warhol, Nel mirino del giaguaro (1979).

Following his last film in 1985, Pintoff taught directing at the School of Visual Arts, American Film Institute, USC School of Cinematic Arts, California Institute of the Arts and UCLA.

He received the International Animated Film Society's Winsor McCay Award for prolific lifetime contributions to animation in 1998.
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Trabajos destacados

Poster de la serie MacGyver MacGyver Poster de la serie The Six Million Dollar Man The Six Million Dollar Man Poster de la serie The Bionic Woman The Bionic Woman Poster de la serie Hawaii Five-O Hawaii Five-O Poster de la serie Kojak Kojak Poster de la serie Voyagers! Voyagers! Poster de la serie Falcon Crest Falcon Crest Poster de la serie Ellery Queen Ellery Queen Poster de la película The Critic The Critic Poster de la serie Knots Landing Knots Landing Poster de la serie The White Shadow The White Shadow Poster de la película Jaguar Lives! Jaguar Lives! Poster de la película St. Helens St. Helens Poster de la película Dynamite Chicken Dynamite Chicken Poster de la película Blade Blade Se muestra una imagen de relleno, ya está disponible el poster de la serie Weekend Special Weekend Special Poster de la película Lunch Wagon Lunch Wagon Poster de la película Who Killed Mary Whats'ername? Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?

Géneros más habituales en las películas de Ernest Pintoff

Animación 6% 6 películas
Comedia 6% 6 películas
Suspense 3% 3 películas
Acción 2% 2 películas
Telefilme 2% 2 películas
Crimen 2% 2 películas
Misterio 2% 2 películas
Drama 1% 1 películas
Fantasía 1% 1 películas
Terror 1% 1 películas
Documental 1% 1 películas

Géneros más habituales en las series de Ernest Pintoff

Drama 17% 17 series
Acción y Aventuras 8% 8 series
Melodramas - Telenovelas 3% 3 series
Ciencia Ficción & Fantasía 3% 3 series
Crimen 2% 2 series
Misterio 2% 2 series
Comedia 2% 2 series
Familia 1% 1 series
Animación 1% 1 series

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