James G. Snitzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1925 to Marie Donahue Snitzer and Louis A. Snitzer, a Hollywood agent, who represented such clients as actor
Buster Crabbe. He had an older sister,
Miriam Snitzer, who was an actress, and a brother, Louis T. Snitzer. Snitzer enlisted in the
United States Army at
Fort MacArthur in
San Pedro, California on 12 November 1943. He reached the rank of
Private First Class Snitzer was
killed in action in
Asbach,
Rhineland-Palatinate,
Germany on 22 March 1945. He is buried at the
Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery and Memorial in
Henri-Chapelle,
Belgium. He was
posthumously awarded the
Purple Heart. ==References==