Charles B. Mintz
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Charles B. Mintz (1896 - January 4, 1940) was an American film producer and distributor, who took control over Margaret J. Winkler's Winkler Pictures after marrying her in 1924. Mintz is noted for sneakily stealing Walt Disney's animators and the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series from Walt Disney in February 1928 and starting the Winkler Studio with Margaret Winkler's brother George to produce the films. After losing the Oswald contract to Walter Lantz, Mintz focused on the output of another Winkler-distributed studio, the Krazy Kat studio, which became first the Mintz studio and later Screen Gems after Columbia Pictures took over the studio. He was nominated for two Academy Awards for Best Short Subject; Cartoon in the 1930s.
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