Michael Maltese

Birthday: 1908-02-06
Deathday: 1981-02-22
Birthplace: New York, New York, USA
Gender: Male
Owned By: Unowned

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.

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Credits

Year Title Character
1952-03-28 Little Beau Pepé Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
1951-04-27 A Hound for Trouble Customer (voice)
1947-03-22 A Hare Grows in Manhattan Dog (voice) (uncredited)
1943-12-01 Rumors Soldier (voice)
1943-07-03 Wackiki Wabbit Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
1943-06-18 The Aristo-Cat Hubie (voice)
1943-02-20 Tortoise Wins by a Hare Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
1942-08-01 The Ducktators Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
1941-08-08 We, the Animals - Squeak! Leader Mouse (voice)
1940-05-18 You Ought to Be in Pictures Studio Guard (uncredited)