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Michael Maltese

Writing · Born 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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Tom and Jerry's Winter Wackiness

Daffy's Rhapsody

Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth

Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

Harlem Globetrotters

Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines

Cat and Dupli-cat

Love Me, Love My Mouse

Duel Personality

I'm Just Wild About Jerry

Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life

The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

Much Ado About Mousing

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

Pent-House Mouse

Sheep Stealers Anonymous

Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har

Adventures of the Road-Runner

Beef For And After

This Is My Ducky Day

The Mouse on 57th Street

The Yogi Bear Show

The Flintstones

Ready, Woolen and Able

Person to Bunny

Goldimouse and the Three Cats

Little Bo Bopped

A Witch's Tangled Hare

Wild About Hurry

The Quick Draw McGraw Show

Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy

Snooper and Blabber

Weasel While You Work

Hare-Way to the Stars

Robin Hood Daffy

What's Opera, Doc?

Scrambled Aches

90 Day Wondering

There They Go-Go-Go!

Deduce, You Say

Rocket-bye Baby

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

One Froggy Evening

Square Shootin' Square

Double or Mutton

Past Perfumance

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

The Legend of Rockabye Point

Beanstalk Bunny

Baby Buggy Bunny

My Little Duckaroo

From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

Pig in a Pickle

Stop! Look! and Hasten!

Paw's Night Out

Bewitched Bunny

Claws for Alarm

Feline Frame-Up

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

Lumber Jack-Rabbit

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

Much Ado About Nutting

Forward March Hare

Terrier-Stricken

Rabbit Seasoning

Going! Going! Gosh!

Water, Water Every Hare

Little Beau Pepé

1952 · Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

Operation: Rabbit

Drip-Along Daffy

A Bear for Punishment

A Hound for Trouble

1951 · Customer (voice)

Scent-imental Romeo

Rabbit of Seville

The Hypo-Chondri-Cat

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

For Scent-imental Reasons

Fast and Furry-ous

Long-Haired Hare

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

My Bunny Lies Over the Sea

Bugs Bunny Rides Again

Buccaneer Bunny

Back Alley Oproar

What's Brewin', Bruin?

It's a Grand Old Nag

It's a Grand Old Nag

House Hunting Mice

A Pest in the House

Along Came Daffy

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

1947 · Dog (voice) (uncredited)

Scent-imental Over You

Cockatoos for Two

Roughly Squeaking

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume 1

Rhapsody Rabbit

Racketeer Rabbit

Hollywood Daffy

Ain't That Ducky

Herr Meets Hare

Stage Door Cartoon

Meatless Flyday

Little Red Riding Rabbit

1943 · Soldier (voice)

Daffy - The Commando

Hiss and Make Up

1943 · Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

1943 · Hubie (voice)

Fifth Column Mouse

Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk

The Unbearable Bear

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

1943 · Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

The Hare-Brained Hypnotist

1942 · Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper

Sport Chumpions

We, the Animals - Squeak!

1941 · Leader Mouse (voice)

The Heckling Hare

Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt

The Trial of Mr. Wolf

Porky's Bear Facts

The Haunted Mouse

You Ought to Be in Pictures

1940 · Studio Guard (uncredited)

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