Michael Maltese
February 6, 1908 (116 years old) in New York, New York, USA
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]
Known For
Credits
- 1952 · Little Beau Pepé as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
- 1951 · A Hound for Trouble as Customer (voice)
- 1947 · A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943 · Rumors as Soldier (voice)
- 1943 · Wackiki Wabbit as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
- 1943 · The Aristo-Cat as Hubie (voice)
- 1943 · Tortoise Wins by a Hare as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
- 1942 · The Ducktators as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
- 1941 · We, the Animals - Squeak! as Leader Mouse (voice)
- 1940 · You Ought to Be in Pictures as Studio Guard (uncredited)