Michael Maltese
WritingMichael 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]
Movies
Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
Little Beau Pepé
1952
Customer (voice)
A Hound for Trouble
1951
Dog (voice) (uncredited)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947
Soldier (voice)
Rumors
1943
Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
Wackiki Wabbit
1943
Hubie (voice)
The Aristo-Cat
1943
Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
1943
Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
The Ducktators
1942
Leader Mouse (voice)
We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941
Studio Guard (uncredited)
You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940