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

The Flintstones
1960
Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machines
1969
The Quick Draw McGraw Show
1959
The Yogi Bear Show
1961
Looney Tunes
1941
The Inspector
1965
Augie Doggie and Doggie Daddy
1959
Snooper and Blabber
1959
Harlem Globetrotters
1970
Lippy the Lion & Hardy Har Har
1962
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie
1979
Wolf Hounded
1959

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
12
Writing
196
Sound
1
1991
Chuck Amuck: The Movie
as Himself
1952
Little Beau Pepé
as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
1951
A Hound for Trouble
as Customer (voice)
1948
A Feather in His Hare
as Indian (voice)
1947
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
as Dog (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Wackiki Wabbit
as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
1943
Rumors
as Soldier (voice)
1943
The Aristo-Cat
as Hubie (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)