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Michael Maltese

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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]

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Occupation Writing
Place of Birth New York, New York, USA
Birthday 1908-02-06

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Filmography by Year

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2013
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2010
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1998
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1988
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1980
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1979
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1969
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1967
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1966
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1965
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1964
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1963
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1962
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1961
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1959
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1950
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1948
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1947
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1946
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1945
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1944
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1943
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1942
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1941

Filmography by Genre

Animation
143
Comedy
129
Family
28
Music
6
Western
7
Science Fiction
5
Kids
3
Crime
4
Romance
3
Adventure
2
War
2
Action & Adventure
1