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Schneer joined Columbia Pictures, where he wrote the script for the Robin Hood film The Prince of Thieves (1948) for Sam Katzman. He later adapted Byron's The Corsair for Katzman but it was not made. Schneer was credited as associate producer on Katzman's The 49th Man (1953). Schneer worked as a producer on the TV series The Web (1954)
1 Video. 2 Photos. The son of a jeweller, Charles H. Schneer was chiefly famous for his collaborations with animator and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen. Together, they created some of the best-loved fantasy and science fiction films to grace the silver screen between 1956 and 1981.
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Jan 21, 2009 · Charles H. Schneer. Motion Picture Producer. He is best known for numerous science fiction and fantasy films from the 1950s into the 1980s. His most notable pictures were the result of his collaboration with film specialist Ray Harryhausen, which include The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad (1957), Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Golden...
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Jan 29, 2009 · Charles Schneer was a influential film producer who pioneered the filming process 'Dynamation' Photograph: Rex Features. Movies. This article is more than 15 years old. Obituary. Charles...
Jan 27, 2009 · Charles H. Schneer, a noted film producer who for a quarter-century helped the Oscar-winning special-effects wizard Ray Harryhausen lay waste to Washington, San Francisco, Rome and many other...
Charles H. Schneer. Biography. Born in Norfolk, Virginia, he graduated from Columbia University in 1940. Serving in the US Army's Signal Corps Photographic Unit during the war, and moved to Hollywood following demobilisation. After joining Columbia Pictures, he was introduced to Harryhausen by a mutual friend from Schneer's time in the Army. [1]
Schneer had initially entered the motion picture industry with Columbia in New York in 1939. He worked as an assistant there for three years and then did his wartime service with the U.S. Army Signals Corps Photographic Unit, turning out training films at the Astoria Studio in Queens, New York.
