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Born / DiedMay 20, 1884 (Died at 65)

Zodiac Sign♉Taurus

Place of BirthPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Career Span1929 – 1949

Known Credits324 Titles

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Leon Schlesinger

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322 movies • 2 shows

Avg Rating

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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.

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Top-rated highlights from Leon Schlesinger's career

6.8

I Love to Singa

1936•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Porky in Wackyland

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

A Corny Concerto

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Little Red Riding Rabbit

1944•movie

Role: Producer

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Full Filmography & Credits

Showing 324 titles featuring Leon Schlesinger

6.8

I Love to Singa

1936•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Porky in Wackyland

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

A Corny Concerto

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Little Red Riding Rabbit

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

1942•movie

Role: Producer

7.5

You Ought to Be in Pictures

1940•movie

as Self

7.3

A Wild Hare

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Coal Black and de Sebben Dwarfs

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Bugs Bunny Gets the Boid

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

A Tale of Two Kitties

1942•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Tortoise Beats Hare

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

1944•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Falling Hare

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.3

Wabbit Twouble

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Pigs in a Polka

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Yankee Doodle Daffy

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

The Ducktators

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Hollywood Steps Out

1941•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Super-Rabbit

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Daffy Duck in Hollywood

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Elmer's Candid Camera

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

To Duck.... Or Not to Duck

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Porky Pig's Feat

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Wackiki Wabbit

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Sinkin' in the Bathtub

1930•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.6

Bosko, the Talk-Ink Kid

1929•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Case of the Missing Hare

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Wacky Wabbit

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Porky's Duck Hunt

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Daffy - The Commando

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

Old Glory

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Horton Hatches the Egg

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

I Haven't Got a Hat

1935•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Have You Got Any Castles

1938•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

The Heckling Hare

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Smile, Darn Ya, Smile!

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

It's Got Me Again!

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The Hare-Brained Hypnotist

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Buckaroo Bugs

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Congo Jazz

1930•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.5

Hollywood Capers

1935•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Wise Quacking Duck

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Prest-O Change-O

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Scrap Happy Daffy

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Katnip Kollege

1938•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

My Favorite Duck

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

All This and Rabbit Stew

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Spies

1943•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

The Case of the Stuttering Pig

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Page Miss Glory

1936•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Duck Soup to Nuts

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

The CooCoo Nut Grove

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Rhapsody in Rivets

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Puss n' Booty

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Hare Force

1944•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Swooner Crooner

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

Haunted Gold

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Fresh Hare

1942•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Hep Cat

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky & Daffy

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Fifth Column Mouse

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Hittin' the Trail for Hallelujah Land

1931•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Blow Out

1936•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

She Was an Acrobat's Daughter

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Gold Diggers of '49

1935•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Birdy and the Beast

1944•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

An Itch in Time

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky's Railroad

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Daffy Duck & Egghead

1938•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Russian Rhapsody

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

The Aristo-Cat

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

The Daffy Doc

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Lady, Play Your Mandolin!

1931•movie

Role: Producer

3.4

Tokio Jokio

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Tom Turk and Daffy

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Pigs Is Pigs

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Bosko the Doughboy

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

One More Time

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Meet John Doughboy

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Hold Anything

1930•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Porky in Egypt

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Porky's Romance

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Conrad the Sailor

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Hare Ribbin'

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Porky's Hare Hunt

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Wacky Blackout

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Tick Tock Tuckered

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

The Big Stampede

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Speaking of the Weather

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Thugs with Dirty Mugs

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Hare-um Scare-um

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

You Don't Know What You're Doin'!

1931•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky's Pooch

1941•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

Ride Him, Cowboy

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

We're in the Money

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Elmer's Pet Rabbit

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Porky's Road Race

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

The Woods Are Full of Cuckoos

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Farm Frolics

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Rookie Revue

1941•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

I've Got to Sing a Torch Song

1933•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Big Man from the North

1931•movie

Role: Producer

4.7

Pagan Moon

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Battling Bosko

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Goopy Geer

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

I Wish I Had Wings

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Snafuperman

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Robin Hood Makes Good

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Porky's Preview

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Bedtime for Sniffles

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Little Red Walking Hood

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Ding Dog Daddy

1942•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

The Man from Monterey

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Porky's Party

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

A Cartoonist's Nightmare

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Confusions of a Nutzy Spy

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Trial of Mr. Wolf

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Pettin' in the Park

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Impatient Patient

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Ain't Nature Grand!

1931•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

Moonlight for Two

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Bosko and Bruno

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Inki and the Minah Bird

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Home Front

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Foney Fables

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Film Fan

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Beauty and the Beast

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Porky the Rain-Maker

1936•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

I Like Mountain Music

1933•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Little Pancho Vanilla

1938•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

Buddy's Day Out

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

The Night Watchman

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Milk and Money

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

What's Cookin' Doc?

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Eatin' on the Cuff or The Moth Who Came to Dinner

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Wholly Smoke

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Patient Porky

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Ups 'n Downs

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Box Car Blues

1930•movie

Role: Associate Producer

5.2

Yodeling Yokels

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Bosko Shipwrecked!

1931•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Queen Was in the Parlor

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

You're Too Careless with Your Kisses!

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

A Great Big Bunch of You

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Hamateur Night

1939•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Rumors

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Booby Traps

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Censored

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Fin'n Catty

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Porky's Midnight Matinee

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Gripes

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Hold the Lion, Please

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Sittin' on a Backyard Fence

1933•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Goofy Groceries

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

I Wanna Be a Sailor

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

The Dish Ran Away with the Spoon

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

I Got Plenty of Mutton

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Porky's Poppa

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Jeepers Creepers

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Honeymoon Hotel

1934•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Bosko's Holiday

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

I Love a Parade

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Bosko's Store

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Ride Him, Bosko

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Get Rich Quick Porky

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

The Cat Came Back

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

A Coy Decoy

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The Gold Brick

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Alpine Antics

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Porky in the North Woods

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Porky's Badtime Story

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Porky and Gabby

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Porky's Pastry Pirates

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Shuffle Off to Buffalo

1933•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Buddy's Beer Garden

1933•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Bosko in Person

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Fighting 69½th

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Little Beau Porky

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Porky's Poultry Plant

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

What Price Porky

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Bosko's Soda Fountain

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

The Tree's Knees

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Bosko's Dog Race

1932•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

Bosko at the Zoo

1932•movie

Role: Producer

4.7

Bosko's Dizzy Date

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Daffy's Southern Exposure

1942•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

The Merry Old Soul

1935•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Porky's Cafe

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Daffy Duckaroo

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Coming!! Snafu

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Henpecked Duck

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Rover's Rival

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Egghead Rides Again

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

A Gander at Mother Goose

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Now That Summer Is Gone

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Crazy Cruise

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

The Bear's Tale

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

The Weakly Reporter

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Bosko's Fox Hunt

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.5

Red-Headed Baby

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Bosko the Lumberjack

1932•movie

Role: Producer

4.6

Bosko the Drawback

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Bosko's Party

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Three's a Crowd

1932•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Naughty But Mice

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

A Star Is Hatched

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

I Wanna Play House

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Country Mouse

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

The Lyin' Mouse

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Into Your Dance

1935•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

My Green Fedora

1935•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Porky's Super Service

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Cracked Ice

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Buddy's Circus

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

The Draft Horse

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Tom Thumb in Trouble

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky's Poor Fish

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Sniffles Takes a Trip

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Young and Healthy

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Dumb Patrol

1931•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Aviation Vacation

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Dog Daze

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Don't Look Now

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Fish Tales

1936•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Who's Who in the Zoo

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Prehistoric Porky

1940•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

The Girl at the Ironing Board

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

The Phantom Ship

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Picador Porky

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

The Porky Pig Show

1964•series

Role: Creator

6.6

Porky's Building

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Streamlined Greta Green

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky and Teabiscuit

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

You're an Education

1938•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Wise Quacks

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Lights Fantastic

1942•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Cryin' for the Carolines

1930•movie

Role: Producer

5.3

Big-Hearted Bosko

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Freddy the Freshman

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Bosko at the Beach

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Bosko's Woodland Daze

1932•movie

Role: Producer

5.1

Bosko in Dutch

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Porky's Hotel

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Fighting Tools

1943•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

Joe Glow, the Firefly

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

Sniffles Bells the Cat

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

The Organ Grinder

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Porky the Wrestler

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Little Brother Rat

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

The Egg Collector

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Sniffles and the Bookworm

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

Cinderella Meets Fella

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Mice Will Play

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Country Boy

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

The Lady in Red

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Naughty Neighbors

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

A Sunbonnet Blue

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Bars and Stripes Forever

1939•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Porky the Fireman

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.6

Bingo Crosbyana

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

The Haunted Mouse

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Crosby, Columbo, and Vallee

1932•movie

Role: Producer

7.1

Porky's Hero Agency

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.4

Pop Goes Your Heart

1934•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

A Lecture on Camouflage

1944•movie

Role: Producer

5.7

Gas

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

The Unbearable Bear

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

I Only Have Eyes for You

1937•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

Porky's Moving Day

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Ain't We Got Fun

1937•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Flowers for Madame

1935•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

Little Dutch Plate

1935•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Those Beautiful Dames

1934•movie

Role: Producer

4.8

Buddy and Towser

1934•movie

Role: Producer

4.0

Buddy's Garage

1934•movie

Role: Producer

4.9

Buddy's Trolley Troubles

1934•movie

Role: Producer

3.8

Buddy of the Apes

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

When I Yoo Hoo

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Plenty of Money and You

1937•movie

Role: Producer

6.9

Count Me Out

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Polar Pals

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

The Sour Puss

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Porky's Tire Trouble

1939•movie

Role: Producer

5.9

One Step Ahead of My Shadow

1933•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike

1944•movie

Role: Producer

4.4

Buddy's Bearcats

1934•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Porky's Spring Planting

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.1

Porky's Ant

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Robinson Crusoe Jr.

1941•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Toy Trouble

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

A Feud There Was

1938•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Meatless Flyday

1944•movie

Role: Producer

4.3

Buddy's Show Boat

1933•movie

Role: Producer

4.1

Buddy the Gob

1934•movie

Role: Producer

8.6

Looney Tunes

1929•series

Role: Creator

6.0

Point Rationing of Foods

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.7

Hop and Go

1943•movie

Role: Producer

6.3

The Crackpot Quail

1941•movie

Role: Producer

6.0

Porky's Five & Ten

1938•movie

Role: Producer

5.8

Toy Town Hall

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Porky's Baseball Broadcast

1940•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

The Brave Little Bat

1941•movie

Role: Producer

5.2

The Fire Alarm

1936•movie

Role: Producer

6.8

Pied Piper Porky

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.2

Screwball Football

1939•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

The Chow Hound

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.4

Believe It or Else

1939•movie

Role: Producer

6.6

The Cat's Tale

1941•movie

Role: Producer

7.5

Slap Happy Pappy

1940•movie

Role: Producer

7.0

Bugs Bunny! That Wacky Wabbit

1942•movie

Role: Producer

7.2

Brother Brat

1944•movie

Role: Producer

6.5

Cross Country Detours

1940•movie

Role: Producer

7.3

Love Thy Neighbor

1940•movie

Role: Title Graphics

7.3

The Hardship of Miles Standish

1940•movie

Role: Producer

8.0

Bosko and Honey

1932•movie

Role: Producer

Having a Wonderful Time with Angels in Dirty Places

1938•movie

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