Michael Maltese

Michael Maltese

Personal Info

  • Known for

    Writing

  • Gender

    Male

  • Birthday

    1908-02-06

  • Day of Death

    1981-02-22 (73 years old)

  • Place of Birth

    New York, New York, USA

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

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