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Birthday: Feb 06, 1908
Place of Birth: New York, New York, USA

Michael Maltese

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]

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