Michael Maltese

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Personal Info

gender

Male

birthday

February 6, 1908

died

February 22, 1981

place of birth

New York, New York, USA

also known as

Mike Maltese · Michael Malteze

total credits

10 movies

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]

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