Chuck Jones

Directing

Chuck Jones

Born 1912-09-21 · Spokane, Washington, USA

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 started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

Acting credits

Gremlins poster
7.1

After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.

Gremlins

1984

Innerspace poster
6.8

Test pilot Tuck Pendleton volunteers to test a special vessel for a miniaturization experiment. Accidentally injected into a neurotic hypochondriac, Jack Putter, Tuck must convince Jack to find his ex-girlfriend, Lydia Maxwell, to help him extract Tuck and his ship and re-enlarge them before his oxygen runs out.

Innerspace

1987

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town poster
5.7

A behind-the-scenes documentary hosted by Joanna Cassidy on the making of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town

1988

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation poster
7.1

This biography, shown on American television as part of the PBS "Great Performances" series, examines the life works of one of Hollywood's most celebrated animators, Chuck (Charles M.) Jones. He is best known for Warner Brothers cartoons featuring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Porky Pig, Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and Pepe LePew. Included are plenty of behind-the-scenes descriptions of how an animated film is made, and (best of all) many clips from Chuck's cartoons.

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

2000

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years poster
7.2

A 50th anniversary tribute to Bugs Bunny

Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years

1990

Mark Twain poster
7.1

Largely considered to be the greatest American author, Mark Twain is celebrated in this exhaustive documentary by filmmaker Ken Burns.

Mark Twain

2002

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary poster
7.2

Some of the biggest stars in show business pay a fun tribute to Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Tunes to mark their 50th anniversary.

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

1986

Ducktators poster
7.0

Documentary about WWII propaganda cartoons.

Ducktators

1997

The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo poster
10.0

Cartoon Network holds an awards show awarding cartoon excellence.

The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

2002

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story poster
7.6

There's not a person in the world who wouldn't recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew the man who originally gave shape, movement and personality to the world's most beloved icon. "The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story" takes you behind the scenes to meet Walt Disney's best friend and chief animator.

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

1999

The Phantom Tollbooth poster
6.9

A young boy named Milo unexpectedly receives a magic tollbooth and, out of boredom, drives through it and enters a fantastical, animated kingdom in turmoil following the loss of its princesses, Rhyme and Reason.

The Phantom Tollbooth

1970

The Magical World of Chuck Jones poster
8.0

Documentary on animator Chuck Jones.

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

1992

Horton Hears a Who! poster
6.8

In this story, Horton discovers there is a microscopic community of intelligent beings called the Who's living on a plant that only he can hear. Recognising the dangers they face, he resolves to keep them safe. However, the other animals around him think Horton has gone crazy thinking that there are such beings.

Horton Hears a Who!

1970

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons poster
7.9

A documentary about the life and career of legendary cartoon director Fred "Tex" Avery.

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons

1988

You Ought to Be in Pictures poster
7.5

Daffy Duck convinces Porky Pig to quit the cartoon biz and try his luck in the features. Porky's adventures begin when he tries to enter the movie studio.

You Ought to Be in Pictures

1940

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox poster
7.5

The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015), whose creation was intended to revolutionize the animation industry.

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

2022

Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! poster
8.0

Narrated by Billy Crystal, the documentary examines the history of the character over the decades, including sketches, clips from the shorts, and interviews with the animation legends who created some of the most memorable Bugs material

Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!

2020

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition poster
7.2

Phil Hartman hosts this retrospective look back at the legacy and making of the classic 1966 holiday special 'How the Grinch Stole Christmas!'

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition

1994

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices poster
6.0

The life and career of the renowned voice actor of animation and radio. For generations, Mel Blanc was one of the most famous Hollywood voice actors with his myriad of voices for classic animated characters like Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and scores of others. However, animation was only one of the fields where Blanc shone through in his long career. This film covers the life of this amazingly talented and big hearted actor, comedian and musician as he became one of the performing greats from the golden ages of American animation and radio through to the 1980s.

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

2008

The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet poster
6.0

In this visual essay, Charles Chaplin biographer Jeffrey Vance, author of "Chaplin: Genius of the Cinema", draws upon a wealth of photography as well as a wide range of interviews (Paulette Goddard, Sydney Chaplin, Chuck Jones, Leni Riefenstahl, Mel Brooks, Joan Collins et al.) to examine the production history of "The Great Dictator", the film's importance as a satire, and legacy.

The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

2011

The Pogo Special Birthday Special poster
6.8

Pogo and his friends celebrate various holidays in their own special ways, while Porkypine does his best to woo Mademoiselle Hepzibah.

The Pogo Special Birthday Special

1969

Chuck Amuck: The Movie poster
6.3

Chuck Amuck: The Movie is a 1991 documentary film about Chuck Jones' career with Warner Bros., centered on his work with Looney Tunes; narrated by Dick Vosburgh.

Chuck Amuck: The Movie

1991

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes poster
8.0

A documentary on the Looney Tunes. Including interviews from people who worked on it, and their family.

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

2003

Cartoons Go To War poster
10.0

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – the psychological warfare of the USA. America’s trusted cartoon darlings from the studios of Warner Bros., Paramount, and the “big animals” of the Disney family were supposed to give courage to the people at the homefront, to educate them, but also to simultaneously entertain them. Out of this mixture grew a genre of its own kind – political cartoons. Insightful Interviews with the animators and producers from back then elucidate in an amusing and astonishing way under which bizarre circumstances these films partially came into existence.

Cartoons Go To War

1996

Behind the camera

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! poster
7.5

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1966

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! poster
7.5

Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1966

Zoom and Bored poster
7.2

Wile E. Coyote uses a bottle full of bees, a brick wall, a boulder in a catapult, and a harpoon gun in his attempts to catch the Road Runner.

Zoom and Bored

1957

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island poster
6.7

Daffy Duck and Speedy Gonzales find a treasure map that leads them to a wishing well, which for a penny will grant any wish (through old cartoon footage). Daffy sets up a resort around the well and various Looney Tunes characters have their dreams come true. Meanwhile, Yosemite Sam and the Tasmanian Devil hunt for the varmints who stole their treasure map!

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

1983

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie poster
7.4

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E. Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie poster
7.4

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E. Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie poster
7.4

A collection of Warner Brothers short cartoon features, "starring" the likes of Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Wile E. Coyote. These animations are interspersed by Bugs Bunny reminiscing on past events and providing links between the individual animations which are otherwise unconnected. This 1979 feature-length compilation includes several of his best cartoons. Among the 11 shorts shown in their entirety are the classics "Robin Hood Daffy," "What's Opera, Doc?," "Bully for Bugs," and "Duck Amuck". The Bugs Bunny Road Runner Movie provides a showcase not only for Jones's razor-sharp timing, but for the work of his exceptional crew, which included designer Maurice Noble, writer Mike Maltese, composers Carl Stalling and Milt Franklyn, and voice actor Mel Blanc.

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979

Claws for Alarm poster
7.3

Porky and Sylvester stay overnight in what Sylvester realizes is a terrifying hotel filled with endless imminent danger.

Claws for Alarm

1954

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales poster
7.2

If Bugs Bunny were to direct his signature inquiry--"What's up, doc?"--toward the modern-day Warner Bros. creative team, he wouldn't be far off. For 1001 Rabbit Tales, they've doctored up a batch of classic cartoons featuring the carrot muncher and his bumbling comrades and bundled them, near seamlessly, into a feature-length film. Here's the premise: Bugs and Daffy, both book salesmen, are competing to sell the most copies of a kids' book. Instead of burrowing a beeline to his sales territory (he should have made a left at Albuquerque), Bugs ends up in the castle of Yosemite Sam, here a harem-leading honcho. Sam's pain-in-the-spurs son, Prince Abalaba, needs somebody to read him stories; Bugs, who'd sooner take the job than suffer the alternative, that involving being boiled in oil, signs on.

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

1982

Long-Haired Hare poster
7.1

Bugs Bunny vs. a famous opera singer at the Hollywood Bowl.

Long-Haired Hare

1949

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters poster
6.8

In this feature-length film combining footage from classic Warner Brothers cartoon shorts with newly animated bridging sequences, Daffy Duck, after having induced laughter in an ailing millionaire and forestalled the millionaire's death for a time (as chronicled in Daffy Dilly (1948), is the beneficiary for the deceased millionaire's assets. But the millionaire's will clearly stipulates that Daffy must use the money for the common good, by providing a service, and should Daffy think of pursuing selfish aims, the millionaire's ghost will "repossess" his millions by making them disappear from Earthly existence. Under the pretense of community service, Daffy opens an exorcism agency and employs Porky Pig, Sylvester Cat, and Bugs Bunny to track and eliminate ghosts, ghouls, and other monsters, while Daffy secretly schemes to use his learned "ghost-busting" talents to rid himself of the millionaire's nagging spirit.

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

1988

Scrambled Aches poster
7.2

Wile E. Coyote uses, among other things, a dehydrated boulder to try to catch the Road Runner.

Scrambled Aches

1957

Forward March Hare poster
7.2

Bugs Bunny gets a draft notice by mistake and joins the army, with disastrous results, especially for the sergeant of his platoon.

Forward March Hare

1953

No Barking poster
6.6

A homeless cat (Claude Cat) searching for food is harassed by the playful antics and barking of an energetic pup (Frisky Puppy). Frisky repeatedly sneaks up behind the poor tabby cat (who hates the dog) and scares it into jumping vertically when it barks. After Claude finally silences the pup, he encounters a larger dog, whose bark has a disastrous effect. Tweety Bird has two lines. Can you guess what they are?

No Barking

1954

Little Beau Pepé poster
6.7

After driving the Foreign Legionnaires from their fort with his aroma, lovesick skunk Pepe falls for the camp mascot, a cat who's accidentally gotten a white stripe painted down her back.

Little Beau Pepé

1952

Scaredy Cat poster
7.6

Porky Pig and Sylvester the Cat spend the night in an old dark house, whose horrors only Sylvester sees.

Scaredy Cat

1948

Cheese Chasers poster
7.2

After eating their fill at a cheese factory, Hubie and Bertie decide there is nothing left to live for, and try to get Claude Cat to eat them.

Cheese Chasers

1951

Rabbit Seasoning poster
7.4

Elmer Fudd is hunting both Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny again.

Rabbit Seasoning

1952

Gay Purr-ee poster
6.6

Mewsette is a starry-eyed cat who grows weary of life on a French farm and heads for the excitement of 1890s Paris. Her tomcat suitor, Jaune-Tom, and his furry cohort, Robespierre, chase after Mewsette, but she's already fallen under the spell of a feline modeling-school racket run by Madame Rubens-Chatte and her slimy assistant, Meowrice.

Gay Purr-ee

1962

Roughly Squeaking poster
7.1

Scheming mice Hubie and Bertie convince a cat that he is, in fact, a lion.

Roughly Squeaking

1946

Coming!! Snafu poster
6.4

Introducing Private Snafu, the nation's worst soldier and his various versions in different branches of the armed forces. The cartoon, ironic and humorous in tone, was created during World War II and it was designed to instruct service personnel about security, proper sanitation habits, booby traps and other military subjects, and also to improve troop morale. The main character's name is a play on the military slang acronym SNAFU, "Situation Normal: All Fouled Up."

Coming!! Snafu

1943

Going Home poster
5.1

Pvt. Snafu's unit suffers the consequences of blabbing military secrets while on leave at home.

Going Home

1944

Hook, Line and Stinker poster
6.9

Wile E. Coyote hopes to catch the Road Runner using a mallet, a cooking pan, a TNT stick, a balloon, and a piano dropped from a precipice. The last of these results in Wile E. falling to the road below along with the piano and ending up with 88 teeth.

Hook, Line and Stinker

1958

Rabbit Fire poster
7.5

Daffy Duck and Bugs argue back and forth whether it is duck season or rabbit season. The object of their arguments is hunter Elmer Fudd.

Rabbit Fire

1951