Les Goldman

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Les Goldman (born July 2, 1913 in New York City , † May 27, 1983 in Santa Cruz , California ) was an American film producer.

Life

In the 1940s, Goldman worked for Tempo, Transfilm and Storyboard, which specialized in animated advertising, as operations director. Goldman was from 1956 to 1962 vice president of the film production company Quartet Films, which in 1956 had taken over the employees of the closed storyboard productions on the west coast. In the early 1960s, Goldman gave animation film courses at the University of Southern California . Previously, he had drawn up the curriculum at the Army Pictorial Photographic Training School in London and carried out research at the French National Film School in Paris .

In addition to Chuck Jones , he co-founded the animation film studio Sib Tower 12 Productions in the early 1960s, which produced short animated films for MGM, among others. The first short film Goldman made with Jones was Pent-House Mouse in 1963 . Numerous short animated films followed by 1967. a. about Tom and Jerry , including Much Ado About Mousing and Love Me, Love My Mouse . For the rather abstract short animation film The Dot and the Line , in which a straight line falls in love with a point, Jones and Goldman were awarded an Oscar for the best short animation film in 1966 .

Goldman founded the film division of Wakefort / Orloff (W / O) in the late 1960s, but it did not produce any film. Dan Bessie called Goldman in his biography a "cautious and deliberate, extremely talented but hopelessly non-entrepreneurial" person. In the 1970s Goldman was active at ASIFA-Hollywood and devoted himself to the International Tour of Animation. Critics saw him as a "tireless worker for the animation film business".

Filmography (selection)

  • 1964: The Hangman - also director
  • 1965: The Dot and the Line
  • 1968: The Door
  • 1970: The Phantom Tollbooth

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Add Staffs Can Study Movie Use . In: The Valley News , Sep. 17, 1961, p. 25.
  2. ↑ Coast Competition stiffens . In: The Billboard , September 29, 1956, p. 28.
  3. ^ "Gently thoughtful, extremely talented, but hopelessly un-entrepreneurial" Cf. Don Bessie: Reeling Through Hollywood . Untreed Reads, 2011, chap. 14th
  4. ↑ We Get Letters . In: Filmmakers newsletter . Volume 8, Issue 1-6. Suncraft International, 1974, p. 46.
  5. ^ "A tireless worker for the cause of animation". See We Get Letters . In: Filmmakers newsletter . Volume 8, Issue 1-6. Suncraft International, 1974, p. 46.
personal data
SURNAME Goldman, Les
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film producer
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 27, 1983
Place of death Santa Cruz , California