Known For
Writing
Birthday
February 6, 1908
Place of Birth
New York, New York, USA
Also Known As
- Mike Maltese
- Michael Malteze
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 - Movies
You Ought to Be in Pictures
as Studio Guard (uncredited)
Rumors
as Soldier (voice)
A Hound for Trouble
as Customer (voice)
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)
The Aristo-Cat
as Hubie (voice)
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
as Dog (voice) (uncredited)
Little Beau Pepé
as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)
Wackiki Wabbit
as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)
The Ducktators
as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)
We, the Animals - Squeak!
as Leader Mouse (voice)