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Michael Maltese

Michael Maltese

Birthday: 1908-02-06 | Place of Birth: 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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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

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)

1943
The Aristo-Cat

as    Hubie (voice)

1943
Rumors

as    Soldier (voice)

1943
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)