Larry Roemer was an American director and producer who played a pivotal role in the Rankin/Bass stop-motion animations of the mid to late-1960s. Most remembered for his work on Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1964), which he co-directed with Kizo Nagashima, his work at Rankin/Bass was often in collaboration with a team of Japanese animation talent, most notably the stop-motion pioneer Tadahito Mochinaga.