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

You Ought to Be in Pictures

as Studio Guard (uncredited)

The Ducktators

as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

Wackiki Wabbit

as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

as Dog (voice) (uncredited)

The Aristo-Cat

as Hubie (voice)

Little Beau Pepé

as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

Rumors

as Soldier (voice)

We, the Animals - Squeak!

as Leader Mouse (voice)

A Hound for Trouble

as Customer (voice)