Michael Maltese
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Biography
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]
Filmography 10
Movies (10)
Little Beau Pepé1952Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
A Hound for Trouble1951Customer (voice)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan1947Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Rumors1943Soldier (voice)
Wackiki Wabbit1943Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
The Aristo-Cat1943Hubie (voice)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare1943Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
The Ducktators1942Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
We, the Animals - Squeak!1941Leader Mouse (voice)
You Ought to Be in Pictures1940Studio Guard (uncredited)