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| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|2|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Baltimore]], Maryland, U.S.
| nationality = [[American people|American]] {{small|(
| death_date = {{death date and age|1998|6|3|1918|2|14|mf=y}}
| death_place = [[Livingston (town), New York|Livingston, New York]], U.S.
| occupation = Animation producer
| spouse = Peggy Leibowitz Snyder
| children = 3
| known for = The founder of Rembrandt Films
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'''William Lawrence Snyder''' (February 14, 1918 – June 3, 1998) was an American [[film producer]]. Snyder founded the company [[Rembrandt Films]] with offices in [[Czechoslovakia]] as a distributor of European films in the United States.
In 1960 he began a collaboration with animator [[Gene Deitch]] beginning with the film [[Munro (film)|''Munro'']], which told the story of a four-year-old boy drafted into the army, and won the [[Academy Award for Animated Short Film]].
Snyder died of [[Alzheimer's disease]] at the age of 80 in 1998.
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Rembrandt Films is run today by his son, Adam Snyder, and his wife, Patricia Giniger Snyder.
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