Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931, Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an Oscar-winning 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 an...
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Ernest Pintoff (December 15, 1931, Watertown, Connecticut – January 12, 2002, Woodland Hills, Los Angeles) was an Oscar-winning 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 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 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 1963, he won an Oscar for his direction of the 1963 film, The Critic.
On television, Pintoff directed many episodes of popular...
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