Leonard Glasser is a

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. Glasser designed Ernie Pintoff's ''The Interview'' and ''The Old Man And The Flower''. He cited

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as inspirations. He was the screenwriter for ''

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'' and '' Out Cold'' and the animator for the 1971 film ''The Telephone Book''. Glasser attended the Philadelphia Museum School of Art 1953–1956. His production company was called "Stars and Stripes Forever Productions."

Film credits

(1996) – Screenplay * Out Cold (1989) – Screenplay adaption of existing story *The Telephone Book (1971) – Animator *No Second Chances – Director

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Living people American film directors American animated film directors American animators American male screenwriters 1935 births {{US-animator-stub