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| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|2|14|mf=y}}
| birth_place = [[Baltimore]], Maryland, U.S.
| nationality = [[American people|American]] {{small|(1918-19981918–1998)}}<br />[[Czechoslovak people|Czechoslovak]] {{small|(1960s-19921960s–1992)}}
| 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
}}
'''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]].
'''William Lawrence Snyder''' (February 14, 1918 – June 3, 1998) was an American [[film producer]]. He won an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] for Best Animated Short in 1960 for the animation [[Munro (film)|''Munro'']]. William Snyder created the company [[Rembrandt Films]], where animator [[Gene Deitch]] directed both his own films and cartoons [[outsourcing|outsourced]] from American studios such as [[MGM]] (''[[Tom and Jerry]]''), [[Columbia Pictures]] ([[United Productions of America|UPA]]), [[20th Century Fox]] ([[Terrytoons]]), and [[Paramount Pictures|Paramount]]/[[King Features]] (''[[Popeye]]'').
 
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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.
 
== References ==
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[[Category:American animated film producers]]
[[Category:Producers ofwho won the Best Animated Short Academy Award winners]]
[[Category:Rembrandt Films]]
[[Category:Deaths from dementia in New York (state)]]
[[Category:Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in New York (state)]]
[[Category:American expatriates in the Czech Republic]]
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