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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1908-02-06 (117 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York, USA

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

Acting

1952

Little Beau Pepé as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

1951

A Hound for Trouble as Customer (voice)

1947

A Hare Grows in Manhattan as Dog (voice) (uncredited)

1943

Wackiki Wabbit as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
Rumors as Soldier (voice)
The Aristo-Cat as Hubie (voice)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

1942

The Ducktators as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1941

We, the Animals - Squeak! as Leader Mouse (voice)

1940

You Ought to Be in Pictures as Studio Guard (uncredited)

Writing

1967

1963

Bear Up! as Story
Drum-Sticked as Writer
Habit Rabbit as Writer

1957

Boyhood Daze as Story
Steal Wool as Story
Fox-Terror as Writer

1945

Herr Meets Hare as Writer