Writing

John W. Dunn

Born — Died

1919-02-25 — 1983-01-17

Place of birth

Coatbridge, Scotland, UK

Known for

Writing

Credits

40 titles

John William Dunn (1919–1983) was a Scottish screenwriter and cartoon animator, active from 1955 to 1983. Dunn began his career at the Walt Disney cartoon studio, where his first story credit—Man in Space—received an Oscar nomination. He moved to Warner Bros. Cartoons in 1960; there, he began with The Pied Piper of Guadalupe, which was also nominated for an Oscar. He and fellow Disney man David Detiege replaced Warner Bros. top writers Michael Maltese and Warren Foster after they went to Hanna Barbera to receive higher billing in the sixties. He usually worked under Friz Freleng and Chuck Jones' units. After the Warner's cartoon studio closed in 1963, Dunn joined DePatie-Freleng Enterprise…

Known for

Pink Pajamas poster
7.5

Night has fallen, and the Pink Panther is looking for a place to sleep. A flop house denies him access, but he fortunately finds a key on the ground that gives him entry to a man's home. The man, a drunk, arrives home after one of his binges and, casting eyes on the pink feline in his bed, thinks he's having an alcoholic hallucination so he calls Alcoholics Anonymous to send someone to help him quit drinking.

Pink Pajamas

1964

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 Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie poster
7.4

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

1981

No artwork available
10.0

Rattfink tries to steal cattle guarded by Roland, but one of the herd- a bull- keeps ruining Rattfink's plan. Meanwhile, Roland's horse, who hates Roland's music, keeps destroying his equipment he plays. NOTE: Last "Roland and Rattfink" cartoon.

Cattle Battle

1971

Yokahama Mama poster
5.3

Blue Racer finds out that the Japanese chicken in the local farm has laid an egg. Blue Racer wastes no time getting it. Unfortunatly, the egg's father is a champion fighting rooster and foiled his plans several times. In his final attempt, he trips the rooster, which, as a result, the egg rolled down to the ostrich farm. The rooster mistakes an ostrich egg as his and takes it home, only, it hatched. The chicken couple argues over it, in Japanese language. Blue Racer, watching the scene, tells the audience that this is the Be Kind to Egg week, "So take your egg out to dinner, or at breakfast."

Yokahama Mama

1972

Pinknic poster
6.6

The Pink Panther wakes up in a log cabin in January and has to avoid starving to death, and getting eaten by a starving mouse, before Spring

Pinknic

1967

Behind the camera

Pink Pajamas poster
7.5

Night has fallen, and the Pink Panther is looking for a place to sleep. A flop house denies him access, but he fortunately finds a key on the ground that gives him entry to a man's home. The man, a drunk, arrives home after one of his binges and, casting eyes on the pink feline in his bed, thinks he's having an alcoholic hallucination so he calls Alcoholics Anonymous to send someone to help him quit drinking.

Pink Pajamas

1964

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 Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie poster
7.4

Bugs Bunny hosts an award show featuring several classic Looney Tunes shorts and characters.

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

1981

No artwork available
10.0

Rattfink tries to steal cattle guarded by Roland, but one of the herd- a bull- keeps ruining Rattfink's plan. Meanwhile, Roland's horse, who hates Roland's music, keeps destroying his equipment he plays. NOTE: Last "Roland and Rattfink" cartoon.

Cattle Battle

1971

Yokahama Mama poster
5.3

Blue Racer finds out that the Japanese chicken in the local farm has laid an egg. Blue Racer wastes no time getting it. Unfortunatly, the egg's father is a champion fighting rooster and foiled his plans several times. In his final attempt, he trips the rooster, which, as a result, the egg rolled down to the ostrich farm. The rooster mistakes an ostrich egg as his and takes it home, only, it hatched. The chicken couple argues over it, in Japanese language. Blue Racer, watching the scene, tells the audience that this is the Be Kind to Egg week, "So take your egg out to dinner, or at breakfast."

Yokahama Mama

1972

Pinknic poster
6.6

The Pink Panther wakes up in a log cabin in January and has to avoid starving to death, and getting eaten by a starving mouse, before Spring

Pinknic

1967

Ape Suzette poster
8.5

Inspector Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux's investigation into a stolen cargo of bananas takes them to a run-down waterfront apartment building, where they follow a trail of banana peels to the abode of a diminutive Cockney sailor and his impish ape. Clouseau doesn't see the ape, and when he is repeatedly punched through the floor by the ape, Clouseau thinks the stocky sailor has been the one hitting him. When he sees Deux-Deux easily subdue the sailor, Clouseau believes that Deux-Deux is a muscular power-house and declares the Sergeant his hero.

Ape Suzette

1966

Little Boa Peep poster
6.8

Blue Racer becomes depressed when he realizes he's a hideous snake. When Dr. Owlsley-Hoot tells him that he is only what he thinks he is, Blue Racer decides to become a sheepdog, unaware of what a sheepdog actually is.

Little Boa Peep

1974

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

Hare-Breadth Hurry poster
5.8

When Bugs Bunny takes the Road Runner's place in this Wile E. Coyote cartoon, the roles and rules become confused.

Hare-Breadth Hurry

1963

Wham and Eggs poster
5.3

While looking for a thousand year egg in a Japanese contest, Blue Racer stumbles upon a dragon who hatches in one of it, and the dragon thinks he is his mother. After many misfortunes raising him, Blue Racer sends the dragon to Tokyo to become a movie star. In the end, Blue Racer reads in a newspaper that the dragon did became an actor.

Wham and Eggs

1973

Napoleon Blown-Aparte poster
7.3

The Inspector ineffectually tries to protect the Commissioner from a mad bomber's revenge campaign.

Napoleon Blown-Aparte

1966

Smile Pretty, Say Pink poster
7.4

At Pinkstone National Park, the Panther heckles a nature photographer (Big Nose Man) and ultimately gets what's coming to him.

Smile Pretty, Say Pink

1966

Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat poster
8.4

Clouseau receives a tip that the elusive smuggler, Captain Clamity, who looks like a clam with eyes, arms, and legs, is laying anchor off the French coast. Clouseau and Sergeant Deux-Deux make a number of unsuccessful attempts to board Clamity's ship, with Clouseau going down to the sea bottom every time

Reaux, Reaux, Reaux Your Boat

1966

Punch and Judo poster
5.6

The Japanese Beetle uses his karate skills to fight The Blue Racer.

Punch and Judo

1972

Dumb Patrol poster
5.7

Biplane battles over France in World War I between Bugs and Baron (Yosemite) Sam Von Shamm.

Dumb Patrol

1964

That's No Lady, That's Notre Dame poster
7.7

Trying to catch a purse snatcher, the Inspector sets up a sting operation by disguising himself as a woman and soon falls afoul of the Commissioner's jealous wife.

That's No Lady, That's Notre Dame

1966

Yankee Doodle Pink poster
5.6

During the American Revolution, the Pink Panther is sent to notify townsfolk that the Redcoats are coming. (Reissue of "Pinky Doodle" 1976).

Yankee Doodle Pink

1978

Sky Blue Pink poster
6.1

The Pink Panther decides to construct and fly a kite

Sky Blue Pink

1968

Pink-A-Rella poster
7.6

Pink finds a witch's magic wand and helps a girl in rags become glamorous to win a date with Pelvis Parsley.

Pink-A-Rella

1969

In the Pink poster
6.4

The Pink Panther joins a gym, but does not have luck getting into shape.

In the Pink

1967

No artwork available
9.0

Roland is assigned to capture Rattfink, but Rattfink holds Roland hostage.

Sweet and Sourdough

1969

Pink and Shovel poster
5.8

The Pink Panther buries a $5 bill, and tries to get it back after a hotel is built on top of it.

Pink and Shovel

1978

Aches and Snakes poster
6.5

Crazylegs Crane and Blue Racer fights to get the honey bee for a meal.

Aches and Snakes

1973

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales poster
7.1

A TV movie special that compiles of a few Looney Tunes episodes centered around an episode of a Christmas Carol, with the part of Scrooge played by Yosemite Sam.

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1979

Pink Tuba-Dore poster
7.0

In the Alps, The Pink Panther's sleep is disturbed by a tuba player and his howling dog, and he decides to stop it.

Pink Tuba-Dore

1971

Support Your Local Serpent poster
5.8

The Blue Racer is trying to catch Japanese Beetle. He first tries to catch him by hiding inside a hose, however, plan is backfired when Japanese Beetle turns on the faucet. Then he tries to catch him by hopping, but again, plan foiled because he ran across a rolling roller. While chasing the Beetle again, Blue Racer runs into a venus flytrap, which spits the snake out (the flytrap claims that it tasted awful). The Blue Racer decided he needs to fly in the air to catch the bug and sucks a can of helium, and floats in the air. However, when he opens his mouth, he flys off in the air and falls into a bag of genuine fertilizer.

Support Your Local Serpent

1972

A Fly in the Pink poster
6.7

A scientifically-enhanced fruit fly attacks the Pink Panther's apples, and he decides to get revenge.

A Fly in the Pink

1971

Unsafe and Seine poster
7.7

The Inspector and Deux-Deux go on an undercover search for an agent across the world.

Unsafe and Seine

1966

Sacré Bleu Cross poster
9.5

When they go after Hassan the Assassin, Deux-Deux gives the Inspector an unlucky rabbit's foot.

Sacré Bleu Cross

1967

Sicque! Sicque! Sicque! poster
8.3

During an investigation at the Château de Vincennes, Sergeant Deux Deux clumsily drinks a swig of the formula of a mad scientist and therefore transforms as Mr. Hyde, in routines, goes torturing the Inspector.

Sicque! Sicque! Sicque!

1966

Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement poster
6.0

Daffy is looking forward to celebrate Easter but his mysterious animator decides to make very bad things with the three completely new episodes. In the first, "The Yolks on You", Daffy seeks to outfox Sylvester the Cat for a golden egg laid by Prissy the Hen; the second story, "The Chocolate Chase", finds Daffy attempting to protect a chocolate factory from intruders; in the finale, "Daffy Flies North", Daffy attempts to hitchhike north for the winter.

Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement

1980

Pink of the Litter poster
6.7

The Pink Panther is caught littering in the town of Litterburg, and as punishment, he has to clear all of the litter in the entire town.

Pink of the Litter

1967

How Bugs Bunny Won the West poster
6.6

How Bugs Bunny Won the West is a Looney Tunes special that was released in 1978. This special was narrated by Denver Pyle. The special is available as a bonus feature on The Essential Bugs Bunny DVD set. It had a running time of 30 min.

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

1978

Keep Our Forests Pink poster
6.8

The Pink Panther keeps a forest park clean despite a camper's constant littering.

Keep Our Forests Pink

1975

Pink Panther in Olym-pinks poster
6.7

The Pink Panther tries his paw at various winter sports, getting ready for the Lake Placid Olympic Games

Pink Panther in Olym-pinks

1980

Dune Bug poster
6.5

The Ant is spending his vacation at the beach, but the Aardvark sniffs him out. A beligirent Life Guard mistakes Aardvark for a dog a repeatedly kicks him off the beach. Ultimately Aardvark is send off to the Dog Pound.

Dune Bug

1969

Rock-A-Bye Pinky poster
7.0

The little pointy-nosed man and his dog are out camping one night, not knowing that the Pink Panther is on a tree branch just above them. He can't sleep because of the man's snoring, so he cuts loose the man's hammock with a knife, sending him flying straight to the river. When the dog hears the man's scream for help, he grips the knife in his mouth, and seeing this, the man blames the dog for what's happened. Later, the panther attaches the little man's hammock above the campfire, and sends the tent with the man in it floating down the river towards a waterfall. Every time the dog gets the blame, making the man hate his pet.

Rock-A-Bye Pinky

1966

The Pique Poquette of Paris poster
6.8

The Inspector goes after Spider Pierre an expert pickpocket.

The Pique Poquette of Paris

1966

Cirrhosis of the Louvre poster
7.3

The Inspector and Sergeant Deux-Deux ineffectually try to stop the Blotch from robbing the Louvre.

Cirrhosis of the Louvre

1966