Leon Schlesinger

Leon Schlesinger

Known For: Production

Gender: Male

Date of Birth: May 20, 1884

Day of Death: December 25, 1949 (66 years old)

Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Leon Schlesinger (May 20, 1884 – December 25, 1949) was an American film producer who founded Leon Schlesinger Productions, which later became the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio, during the Golden Age of American animation. He was a distant relative of the Warner Brothers. As head of his own studio, Schlesinger served as the producer of Warner's Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons from 1930, when Schlesinger assumed production from his subcontractors, Harman and Ising, to 1944, when Warner acquired the studio.

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