Michael Maltese

Michael Maltese

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]

Writing

1964

1963

1958

1957

1952

1949

Acting

1952

Little Beau Pepé
Movie

Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

1951

A Hound for Trouble
Movie

Customer (voice)

1947

A Hare Grows in Manhattan
Movie

Dog (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Rumors
Movie

Soldier (voice)

1943

Wackiki Wabbit
Movie

Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

1943

The Aristo-Cat
Movie

Hubie (voice)

1943

Tortoise Wins by a Hare
Movie

Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Ducktators
Movie

Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1941

We, the Animals - Squeak!
Movie

Leader Mouse (voice)

1940

You Ought to Be in Pictures
Movie

Studio Guard (uncredited)

Infos

Full Name
Michael Maltese
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
2/6/1908
Date of Death
2/22/1981
Also Known As

Mike Maltese

Michael Malteze