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Michael Maltese
Born 1908-02-06New 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]
Screen work
Movies & roles
Little Beau PepéForeign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)A Hound for TroubleCustomer (voice)A Hare Grows in ManhattanDog (voice) (uncredited)RumorsSoldier (voice)Wackiki WabbitFat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)The Aristo-CatHubie (voice)Tortoise Wins by a HareVarious Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)The DucktatorsMussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)We, the Animals - Squeak!Leader Mouse (voice)You Ought to Be in PicturesStudio Guard (uncredited)