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Ernie Pintoff
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: December 15, 1931 in Watertown, CT Death: January 12, 2001 in Woodland Hills, CA Biography:Trained in graphic design at Syracuse University, American animator "Ernest Pintoff" had no experience in the cartoon world when he was signed by UPA Animation Studios in 1956, as part of a new talent pool for UPA's first weekly TV endeavor, The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show. The neophite Pintoff was given an unprecedented contract allowing him carte blanche as a writer, director and designer of such three-minute filler cartoons as "Fight on for Old" and The Lion Hunt. His modernistic, satirical style attracted the attention of Gene Deitch, the new head of animation at Terrytoons. Pintoff directed one memorable cartoon for Terrytoons, Flebus (1957), before setting up his own production company, principally devoted to TV advertising work. Pintoff's independent theatrical-cartoon output includes "The Violinist" (1960), "The Interview" (1961), and best of all, "The Critic" (1962), a sidesplitting sendup of... Full Biography
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