Actor

Michael Maltese

Writing

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TMDB popularity

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Movies: 185Series: 6Crew credits: 183

TMDB ID: 362742

IMDb ID: nm0540789

Known for: Writing

Born: February 6, 1908

Died: February 22, 1981

Age: 73

Place of birth: New York, New York, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1940 - 2013

Years active: 74

Average TMDB rating: 6.83

Wikidata: Q1928541

Also known as

Mike Maltese • Michael Malteze

Other jobs

Story (154)Writer (29)

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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]

Movies

Movie credits linked with Michael Maltese.