Chuck Jones
Biography
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoons starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepé Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts (Duck Amuck, One Froggy Evening and What's Opera, Doc?) were later inducted into the National Film Registry. Chief among Jones' other works was the famous "Hunting Trilogy" of Rabbit Fire, Rabbit Seasoning, and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1951–1953). After his career at Warner Bros. ended in 1962, Jones started Sib Tower 12 Productions and began producing cartoons for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts and the television adaptation of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He later sta...
Known For
Top 31 Movies
Gremlins
1984
Innerspace
1987
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
1999
Mark Twain
2002
Horton Hears a Who!
1970
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons
1988
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
2000
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
2022
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
1986
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
2008
Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
2012
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
2011
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
2020
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988
Cartoons Go To War
1996
Portrait of Tex Avery
1988
That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace
2014
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
Ducktators
1997
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
1994
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
2009
The Pogo Special Birthday Special
1969
You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940
Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!
2005
Chuck Amuck: The Movie
1991
It Hopped One Night: A Look at ‘One Froggy Evening’
2004
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
2002
Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery
2004
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
2012