Writing

Michael Maltese

Discover Michael Maltese through TMDB biography data, known movie roles, TV appearances, filmography highlights and catalog links to related titles on turkish123com.

Born: 1908-02-06New York, New York, USA

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]