Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
06 Feb, 1908 (117 years old)
Death date
22 Feb, 1981

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

We, the Animals - Squeak!
DVD
9 min 1941

We, the Animals - Squeak!

Animation Movie
You Ought to Be in Pictures
10 min 1940

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Animation Movie