William Lawrence Snyder (February 14, 1918 – June 3, 1998) was an American film producer.
In 1960 he began a collaboration with animator Gene Deitch beginning with the film Munro, which told the story of a four-year-old boy drafted into the army, and won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film.
The two continued their collaboration, with Snyder producing and Deitch directing both original films, including the Nudnik series, and cartoons outsourced from American studios such as Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM, episodes of Popeye the Sailor for King Features, and shorts for both UPA and Terrytoons, both of where Deitch had previously worked.
Snyder also produced the feature film Alice of Wonderland in Paris (1966).
Snyder asked Deitch to make a 12-minute version, quickly and cheaply,[2] purely to fulfil the wording of the contract.