Robert Snyder

Robert Snyder (January 16, 1916 – March 21, 2004) was a documentary filmmaker who won an Academy Award in 1950 as producer of The Titan: Story of Michelangelo.

Biography Robert Snyder was born in Brooklyn, New York, on January 16, 1916. He married Allegra Fuller, the daughter of Buckminster Fuller, professor emeritus and former chairwoman of the dance department at University of California at Los Angeles. They had a son Jaime and a daughter Alexandra.

Snyder won the Academy Award for Best Feature-Length Documentary for The Titan: Story of Michelangelo. It was a German/Swiss film titled Michelangelo: Life of a Titan, first released in 1938 directed by Curt Oertel. Snyder re-edited and shortened the film, adding narration by Fredric March. and cellist Pablo Casals.

His 12-part series, Looking at Modern Art, and Michelangelo: Self-Portrait both appeared on the U.S. Public Broadcasting Service.

Works

As director

Willem de Kooning: Artist (short) 1995 Michelangelo: A Self Portrait (documentary) 1989 Claudio Arrau: A Life in Music (documentary) 1978 Ruth Asawa: Of Forms & Growth (documentary short) 1978 Anais Nin Observed (documentary) 1974 The World of Buckminster Fuller (documentary) 1974 NBC Experiment in Television (TV series documentary) Episode, Buckminster Fuller on Spaceship Earth (1971) The Henry Miller Odyssey (documentary) 1969 A Glimpse of De Kooning (documentary) 1961 A Visit with Pablo Casals 1957 Halfway to Hell (documentary) 1954

As producer Willem de Kooning: Artist (short) (producer) 1995 The Henry Miller Odyssey (documentary) (producer) 1969 Bayanihan (documentary) (producer) 1962 The Hidden World (documentary) (producer) 1958 The Titan: Story of Michelangelo (documentary) (producer) 1950

As actor Code Name: Heraclitus (TV movie) as MacPherson 1967 The Twilight Zone (TV series) as electrician Episode, "One More Pallbearer" (1962) ... Electrician (uncredited) 1961 Outlaws (TV series) as Bundy 1961

Crew Gods of Bali (documentary) (supervisor - 1952 version)