Ernest Pintoff

导演, 制片人, 编剧, 作曲

1931年12月15日 — 2002年1月12日 (70 years)
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 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 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.

Plex 上的电影与电视节目

  • 鹰冠庄园
    鹰冠庄园9 seasons
  • Knots Landing
    Knots Landing14 seasons
  • 黑豹
    黑豹1979

知名作品

  • 评论家
    评论家1963
  • 玉面飞龙
    玉面飞龙7 seasons
  • 仿生女郎
    仿生女郎3 seasons
  • Kojak
    Kojak5 seasons
  • St. Helens
    St. Helens1981
  • 杜克兄弟
    杜克兄弟7 seasons
  • 午夜风流
    午夜风流1967
  • 黑豹
    黑豹1979
  • Hawaii Five-O
    Hawaii Five-O12 seasons
  • 无敌金刚
    无敌金刚5 seasons
  • Dallas
    Dallas14 seasons
  • 时空游侠
    时空游侠1 seasons
  • 埃勒里·奎因探案集
    埃勒里·奎因探案集1 seasons
  • Knots Landing
    Knots Landing14 seasons
  • Lunch Wagon
    Lunch Wagon1981
  • Blade
    Blade1973
  • Dynamite Chicken
    Dynamite Chicken1971
  • 鹰冠庄园
    鹰冠庄园9 seasons
  • The Violinist
    The Violinist1959
  • Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?
    Who Killed Mary Whats'ername?1971