Leon Schlesinger
- Production
- May 20, 1884 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- December 25, 1949
Biography
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.
Known for
Filmography
- The Porky Pig Show · Creator
- Buckaroo Bugs · Producer
- Birdy and the Beast · Producer
- Hare Force · Producer
- Censored · Producer
- Brother Brat · Producer
- Hare Ribbin' · Producer
- The Chow Hound · Producer
- Duck Soup to Nuts · Producer
- Russian Rhapsody · Producer
- Gas · Producer
- Swooner Crooner · Producer
- Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips · Producer
- A Lecture on Camouflage · Producer
- Tick Tock Tuckered · Producer
- The Weakly Reporter · Producer
- Snafuperman · Producer
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike · Producer
- I Got Plenty of Mutton · Producer
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears · Producer
- Tom Turk and Daffy · Producer
- Meatless Flyday · Producer
- Booby Traps · Producer
- What's Cookin' Doc? · Producer
- Little Red Riding Rabbit · Producer
- Puss n' Booty · Producer
- An Itch in Time · Producer
- Rumors · Producer
- Daffy - The Commando · Producer
- Inki and the Minah Bird · Producer
- The Home Front · Producer
- Falling Hare · Producer
- Fin'n Catty · Producer
- Fighting Tools · Producer
- A Corny Concerto · Producer
- The Gold Brick · Producer
- Scrap Happy Daffy · Producer
- Spies · Producer
- Porky Pig's Feat · Producer
- Wackiki Wabbit · Producer
- Gripes · Producer
- The Aristo-Cat · Producer
- Fifth Column Mouse · Producer
- Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk · Producer
- Coming!! Snafu · Producer
- Yankee Doodle Daffy · Producer
- Tokio Jokio · Producer
- The Wise Quacking Duck · Producer
- The Unbearable Bear · Producer
- Super-Rabbit · Producer
- Hop and Go · Producer
- To Duck.... Or Not to Duck · Producer
- Point Rationing of Foods · Producer
- Tortoise Wins by a Hare · Producer
- Pigs in a Polka · Producer
- Confusions of a Nutzy Spy · Producer
- Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs · Producer
- Case of the Missing Hare · Producer
- My Favorite Duck · Producer
- Ding Dog Daddy · Producer
- A Tale of Two Kitties · Producer
- The Hare-Brained Hypnotist · Producer
- The Daffy Duckaroo · Producer
- The Hep Cat · Producer
- The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall · Producer
- The Impatient Patient · Producer
- Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner · Producer
- Fresh Hare · Producer
- The Ducktators · Producer
- Foney Fables · Producer
- Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid · Producer
- Wacky Blackout · Producer
- Hold the Lion, Please · Producer
- Lights Fantastic · Producer
- The Draft Horse · Producer
- The Wacky Wabbit · Producer
- Bugs Bunny! That Wacky Wabbit · Producer
- Daffy's Southern Exposure · Producer
- Horton Hatches the Egg · Producer
- The Wabbit Who Came to Supper · Producer