Michael Maltese

Writing

Born Feb 06, 1908

From New York, New York, USA

Died Feb 22, 1981

Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 – February 22, 1981) was an American story man for classic animated cartoon shorts. He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of Merrie Melodies cartoons with director Chuck Jones. This collaboration produced many highly acclaimed animated shorts, including 4 of the top 5 "greatest cartoons" as judged by 1000 animation professionals; "What's Opera, Doc?" tops this list as the best animated short of all time. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]

Michael Maltese

Known For

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Rumors

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

The Aristo-Cat

A Hound for Trouble

The Ducktators

Wackiki Wabbit

Little Beau Pepé

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

We, the Animals - Squeak!

Filmography — Acting

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Rumors

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

The Aristo-Cat

A Hound for Trouble

The Ducktators

Wackiki Wabbit

Little Beau Pepé

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

We, the Animals - Squeak!

Filmography — Crew

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

The Legend of Rockabye Point

Beep, Beep

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

Bugs Bunny Rides Again

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

90 Day Wondering

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

Beef For And After

Frigid Hare

Bear Hug

Herr Meets Hare

Bear Feat

Big Mouse-Take

Fee Fie Foes

Flea for Two

Bear Knuckles

Horse Shoo

Trouble Bruin

Bearly Able

It's a Grand Old Nag

Elephantastic

Sheep Stealers Anonymous

Drum-Sticked

Habit Rabbit

Raggedy Rug

Fox-Terror

Swash Buckled