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Leon Schlesinger

1884 - 1949

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Leon Schlesinger ( SHLESS-in-jər; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leon Schlesinger has received more than 411,806 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Leon Schlesinger is the 72nd most popular producer (down from 60th in 2019), the 8,319th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,760th in 2019) and the 38th most popular American Producer.

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  • 17

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  • 3.10

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PRODUCERS

Among producers, Leon Schlesinger ranks 72 out of 140. Before him are Lawrence Gordon, Álex Pina, Barbara Broccoli, Artur Brauner, Jerry Weintraub, and Gerald R. Molen. After him are Debra Hill, Paul A. Rothchild, Lawrence Bender, Rick Berman, Sam Zimbalist, and Lorenzo di Bonaventura.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Leon Schlesinger ranks 213. Before him are Reinier Beeuwkes, Walther Schreiber, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Linda Arvidson, André Auffray, and Alice Roosevelt Longworth. After him are Armand Massard, Max Taut, Bessie Barriscale, José Patricio Guggiari, Georg Zacharias, and Harvey Fletcher. Among people deceased in 1949, Leon Schlesinger ranks 160. Before him are George Larner, Clarence Kingsbury, Henry Petersen, Linda Arvidson, Nils Östensson, and Birbal Sahni. After him are J. Searle Dawley, William Henry Dean, Karolina Widerström, Robert Ripley, Léon Frapié, and Gheorghe Mironescu.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Leon Schlesinger ranks 8,319 out of 20,380. Before him are Timothy Bottoms (1951), Larry McMurtry (1936), J. B. Lenoir (1929), Joseph Strickland (1958), Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884), and Leelee Sobieski (1983). After him are Mia Zapata (1965), Lewis Howard Latimer (1848), J. Searle Dawley (1877), Brian Littrell (1975), Bessie Barriscale (1884), and Pepper Adams (1930).

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Among PRODUCERS In United States

Among producers born in United States, Leon Schlesinger ranks 38. Before him are Shonda Rhimes (1970), Charles Roven (1949), Lawrence Gordon (1936), Barbara Broccoli (1960), Jerry Weintraub (1937), and Gerald R. Molen (1935). After him are Debra Hill (1950), Paul A. Rothchild (1935), Lawrence Bender (1957), Rick Berman (1945), Lorenzo di Bonaventura (1957), and Matt Stone (1971).

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