1908-02-06 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]
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Little Beau Pepé | Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited) | 1952-03-28 |
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A Hound for Trouble | Customer (voice) | 1951-04-27 |
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A Hare Grows in Manhattan | Dog (voice) (uncredited) | 1947-03-22 |
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Tortoise Wins by a Hare | Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited) | 1943-02-20 |
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Wackiki Wabbit | Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited) | 1943-07-03 |
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The Aristo-Cat | Hubie (voice) | 1943-06-18 |
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Rumors | Soldier (voice) | 1943-12-01 |
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The Ducktators | Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited) | 1942-08-01 |
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We, the Animals - Squeak! | Leader Mouse (voice) | 1941-08-08 |
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You Ought to Be in Pictures | Studio Guard (uncredited) | 1940-05-18 |