Person
Michael Maltese
- Known for
- Writing
- Birthday
- 1908-02-06
- Place of birth
- New York, New York, USA
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1981-02-22
- Popularity
- 1
Also known as: Mike Maltese, Michael Malteze
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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]
