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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

6.7

Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

Little Beau Pepé

1952

7.0

Customer (voice)

A Hound for Trouble

1951

6.1

Dog (voice) (uncredited)

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

1947

7.0

Soldier (voice)

Rumors

1943

6.7

Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

Wackiki Wabbit

1943

6.7

Hubie (voice)

The Aristo-Cat

1943

7.0

Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

1943

6.2

Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

The Ducktators

1942

5.8

Leader Mouse (voice)

We, the Animals - Squeak!

1941

7.5

Studio Guard (uncredited)

You Ought to Be in Pictures

1940

Credits

Little Beau Pepé

as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

1952

6.7

A Hound for Trouble

as Customer (voice)

1951

7.0

A Hare Grows in Manhattan

as Dog (voice) (uncredited)

1947

6.1

Rumors

as Soldier (voice)

1943

7.0

Wackiki Wabbit

as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

1943

6.7

The Aristo-Cat

as Hubie (voice)

1943

6.7

Tortoise Wins by a Hare

as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

1943

7.0

The Ducktators

as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

1942

6.2

We, the Animals - Squeak!

as Leader Mouse (voice)

1941

5.8

You Ought to Be in Pictures

as Studio Guard (uncredited)

1940

7.5