Charles H. Schneer Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
For the American film producer and screenwriter (1916–1963), see Charles Schnee.Charles H. Schneer (May 5, 1920 – January 21, 2009) was a film producer most widely known for working with Ray Harryhausen, known for his work in stop motion model animation.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.Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge. The octopus had only six tentacles, which Schneer is reported to have been correct in claiming no one would notice. This film made use of stop-motion photography which the two men were to use to greater effect in later films including Jason and the Argonauts (1963), The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973), and Clash of the Titans (1981).In 1960, he moved his base of operations to London, where he remained for 45 years. Beside the fantasy films, he also produced the film version of the stage musical Half a Sixpence (1967) starring Tommy Steele and Hellcats of the Navy (1957), the only film starring both Ronald Reagan and Nancy Reagan (as Nancy Davis).Schneer died in Boca Raton, Florida, aged 88.
Nobody paid any attention to us. Nobody said, "Why did you do this?" and "Why did you do that?" We just did it, and when the picture was finished, they saw it. We had full control, artistic control without any interference. That was worth the price of making a "B" picture, as opposed to an "A" picture.
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It's been a great pleasure of mine to see Ray at work. That power of concentration, his area of creative design, and his ability to do what today crews of 70 or 80 men are doing is certainly unmatched in cinematic history. (On working with special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen)
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What interested me was putting something on the screen that nobody else had on the screen, which was difficult to find. And I was interested in visuals, and locations that had not been photographed, and I was also interested in leaving California to find those locations, because every rock, every tree within 50 miles of Los Angeles, had been photographed.
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A liberal Democrat, he nonetheless got along extremely well with frequent collaborator Ray Harryhausen, who was a conservative Republican.
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He graduated from Columbia University in New York City.
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He was a forty-year member of the Queens Club in London, England.
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He was a former longtime resident of London, England.
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His daughter, Bettine Greifer, predeceased him.
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He is survived by his wife, Shirley Sussman, Schneer; two daughters, Lesley Schneer Silver and Stacey Schneer Lee; three grandchildren, Ben Lawrence, Jenessa Freid, and Jared Lee; and four great grandchildren-Jack Lawrence, Daniel Lawrence, Grayson Freid, and Beckett Freid; and a sister, Babette Schneer Katz of Mamaroneck, New York.
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