William Lawrence Snyder (February 14, 1918 – June 3, 1998) was an American film producer. He won an

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for Best Animated Short in 1960 for the animation ''Munro''. William Snyder created the company

Rembrandt Films Rembrandt Films is a Czech production company founded by American film producer William L. Snyder in 1949. It began as an importer of films from Europe and expanded into animated film production. Gene Deitch directed for the company both his own f ...

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, where animator Gene Deitch directed both his own films and cartoons outsourced from American studios such as

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between 1960 and 1964. One short, a short entitled ''Munro'', told the story of a four-year-old boy drafted into the army, and won the 1960 Academy Award for Animated Short Film. Snyder produced the feature film '' Alice of Wonderland in Paris'' (1966). Snyder died of Alzheimer's disease at the age of 80 in 1998. Rembrandt Films is run today by his son, Adam Snyder, and his wife, Patricia Giniger Snyder.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Snyder, William Lawrence 1918 births 1998 deaths American film producers 20th-century American businesspeople People from Baltimore American animated film producers Producers who won the Best Animated Short Academy Award Rembrandt Films Deaths from dementia in New York (state) Deaths from Alzheimer's disease American expatriates in the Czech Republic