Michael Maltese
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]
Known For
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
We, the Animals - Squeak!
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
You Ought to Be in Pictures
Rumors
The Aristo-Cat
Little Beau Pepé
A Hound for Trouble
All Movies (10)
- Little Beau Pepé1952 · as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
- A Hound for Trouble1951 · as Customer (voice)
- A Hare Grows in Manhattan1947 · as Dog (voice) (uncredited)
- Rumors1943 · as Soldier (voice)
- Wackiki Wabbit1943 · as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
- The Aristo-Cat1943 · as Hubie (voice)
- Tortoise Wins by a Hare1943 · as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
- The Ducktators1942 · as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
- We, the Animals - Squeak!1941 · as Leader Mouse (voice)
- You Ought to Be in Pictures1940 · as Studio Guard (uncredited)