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.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
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) |