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