Peter Schneider (film executive)
{{Short description|American film executive, film producer and theatrical producer}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Peter Schneider
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| office = President of The Walt Disney Studios
| term_start = {{start date|df=yes|1999|01}}
| term_end = {{end date|df=yes|2001|06}}
| predecessor = David Hoberman
| successor = See Walt Disney Studios
| office2 = President of Walt Disney Feature Animation
| term_start2 = {{start date|df=yes|1985}}
| term_end2 = {{end date|df=yes|1999|01}}
| predecessor2 = Roy E. Disney as chairman
| successor2 = Thomas Schumacher
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1950|11|10}}
| birth_place = Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
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| nationality = American
| other_names =
| occupation = Producer
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Peter Schneider (born November 10, 1950) is an American film executive, film producer and theatrical producer.
Career
He is best known for being, from 1985 to 1999, the president of Disney's feature animation department, which became known as Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1986, and was responsible for helping to turn the feature animation department around and creating some of the most critically acclaimed and highest grossing animated features that Disney released in a period that became known as the "Disney Renaissance".{{Citation needed|date=December 2024}}
He was promoted to studio chief in 1999. In 2001, Schneider left Disney to form his own theater production company. His first major production, developed in association with Michael Reno, was Sister Act{{cite news|last=Suskin|first=Steven|title=Sister Act|url=https://variety.com/2011/legit/reviews/sister-act-1117945047/|access-date=28 January 2012|newspaper=Variety|date=20 April 2011}} which opened at the London Palladium in 2009.{{cite news|last=Billington|first=Michael|title=Sister Act / London Palladium|newspaper=The Guardian|date=2 June 2009}} Peter graduated from Purdue University in 1972 with a theater degree.{{cite news | title=Peter Schneider to Leave Disney | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_June_20/ai_75666085 | archive-url=https://archive.today/20120710121216/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2001_June_20/ai_75666085 | url-status=dead | archive-date=2012-07-10 | publisher=Business Wire | access-date=2008-05-12}}
Along with producer Don Hahn, Schneider produced a documentary entitled Waking Sleeping Beauty in 2009, which focused on the revival of Disney animation during the 1980s and early 1990s.{{Citation needed|date=December 2020}}
Schneider is also a world champion bridge player, having won the World Transnational Open Teams Championship in 2005.[http://www.worldbridge.org/competitions/wbf-championships/world-bridge-teams-championships/the-open-teams/#2005-estoril-portugal World Bridge Federation records of the World Transnational Open Teams Championship - Estoril, Portugal, 2005.] He possesses the World Bridge Federation (WBF) title of World Life Master (WLM).[http://www.worldbridge.org/people-finder/ Peter Schneider, WBF Code USAQ696225]
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|id=1154296|name=Peter Schneider}}
- {{WBF}}
{{Walt Disney Studios}}
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