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    Michael Maltese

    1908-02-06 (116 years old) in New York, New York, USA

    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

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    Little Beau Pepé
    64 %|Mar 28, 1952
    Animation, Comedy, Family
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    A Hound for Trouble
    70 %|Apr 27, 1951
    Animation
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    A Hare Grows in Manhattan
    60 %|Mar 22, 1947
    Animation, Comedy, Crime
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    Rumors
    69 %|Dec 1, 1943
    Animation, Comedy, War
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    Wackiki Wabbit
    67 %|Jul 3, 1943
    Animation, Comedy
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    The Aristo-Cat
    65 %|Jun 18, 1943
    Animation, Comedy
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    Tortoise Wins by a Hare
    69 %|Feb 20, 1943
    Animation, Comedy
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    The Ducktators
    60 %|Aug 1, 1942
    Comedy, Animation
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    We, the Animals - Squeak!
    57 %|Aug 8, 1941
    Animation
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    You Ought to Be in Pictures
    75 %|May 18, 1940
    Animation, Comedy

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