
Writing
Michael Maltese
Born — Died
1908-02-06 — 1981-02-22
Place of birth
New York, New York, USA
Known for
Writing
Credits
40 titles
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]
Known for
7.4A 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
7.1Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.
Rumors
1943
8.0Loopy helps a bear with his relationship with Emmy Lou who has a angry boyfriend named Braxton, who has a jealous streak.
Bear Hug
1964
8.0Loopy, under the company name of Jealous Lovers Anonymous, helps Braxton again with his mad crazy jealous streak to win over his girlfriend, Emmy Lou.
Trouble Bruin
1964
7.0Braxton needs Loopy's help with getting rid of a big buff bear named Jack Delightful, who won his girlfriend, Emmy Lou's love.
Bear Knuckles
1964
7.1Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.
Frigid Hare
1949
Film credits
1950s · 2 titles
7.3Kicked off the boat in Italy, Charlie forces himself upon a pizzeria owner. Donning his best Italian accent and garb, Charlie sets to work as a waiter, astonishing and horrifying the customers with his barefoot grape-stomping and musical rendition of "Atsa Matta for You?"
A Hound for Trouble
1951
6.7After 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
1940s · 9 titles
7.1Snafu inadvertantly starts a panic on his base when he begins a mistaken rumour that the base is about to be bombed.
Rumors
1943
6.4Bugs Bunny relates his early life in the Manhattan tenements and spotlights his encounter with a gang of canine toughs.
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947
5.9Porky hosts a radio program, where animals tell their stories. The guest star is Kansas City Kitty, the best mouser in the country. She tells the story of her life, including her marriage to Tom Collins, the birth of Little Patrick (not necessarily in that order), and the turning point of her life. The mice have plotted out a major operation like gangsters. They sneak out and kidnap Patrick and hold him hostage...
We, the Animals - Squeak!
1941
5.9A hungry indian tries to cook bugs, yet Bugs outwits him yet again. Banned for offensive depiction of Native Americans.
A Feather in His Hare
1948
7.1Bugs challenges Cecil Turtle to race, only this time he's wearing an aerodynamic suit like Cecil's. Unfortunately, the gambling ring has bet everything on the rabbit, and Bugs now looks like a tortoise.
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
1943
7.5Daffy 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
6.2A wartime cartoon that satirizes the Axis leaders of World War II.
The Ducktators
1942
6.9Meadows the butler quits after being tormented by the spoiled family cat, who finds he is unable to survive on his own, especially after meeting the mice Hubie and Bertie.
The Aristo-Cat
1943
6.8On a tropical island, a pair of castaways look to Bugs as a source of food.
Wackiki Wabbit
1943
Behind the camera
7.4A 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
8.0Loopy helps a bear with his relationship with Emmy Lou who has a angry boyfriend named Braxton, who has a jealous streak.
Bear Hug
1964
8.0Loopy, under the company name of Jealous Lovers Anonymous, helps Braxton again with his mad crazy jealous streak to win over his girlfriend, Emmy Lou.
Trouble Bruin
1964
7.0Braxton needs Loopy's help with getting rid of a big buff bear named Jack Delightful, who won his girlfriend, Emmy Lou's love.
Bear Knuckles
1964
7.1Bugs rescues a penguin from an Inuit hunter at the South Pole and becomes obligated to it beyond his wildest dreams.
Frigid Hare
1949
7.0Loopy pretends to be a wolf rug that Quincy "hunted" in order to avoid Quincy's wife, Genevieve, to bicker about him not doing anything impressive.
Raggedy Rug
1964
6.6A 1980 Looney Tunes Thanksgiving special, starring Daffy Duck. Cartoons featured "The Scarlet Pumpernickel" "Robin Hood Daffy" "Drip-Along Daffy" "His Bitter Half"
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
1980
9.0Overhearing his boss, Bronco say he's going to get rid of an old saddle, Twister mistakes this for Bronco trying to get rid of him, and so, Loopy helps Twister escape.
Horse Shoo
1965
8.0Raymond has a serious carrot addiction, and it's up to Loopy to cure him from it.
Habit Rabbit
1963
6.7In the Western town of Rising Gorge, Bugs faces off against Yosemite Sam, "the roughest, toughest, he-man stuffest hombre who's ever crossed the Rio Grande."
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948
4.0Loopy takes the role in babysitting Junior Bear after he accidentally scares the previous babysitter Goldilocks off.
Bearly Able
1962
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl was released in conjunction with Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire None of these shorts have been released on disc before, and Chuck Jones's "Daffy Dilly" (1948) is a welcome addition to any cartoon library. Daffy sets out to win the money a gloomy millionaire is offering to anyone who can make him laugh--and succeeds in spite of himself. But many of these cartoons are, simply, duds. "This Is a Life?" (1955), "People Are Bunny" (1959), and "Person to Bunny" (1960) spoof largely forgotten TV shows. How many viewers under 65 will recognize caricatures of Art Linkletter and Edward R. Murrow? The films pitting Daffy against Bugs play like weak remakes of Jones's "Rabbit Fire" trilogy or Friz Freleng's "Show Biz Bugs"--"Person to Bunny" even repeats some of Daffy's tap dance to "Jeepers Creepers" in "Show Biz." The very late "Suppressed Duck" (1965) is painfully unfunny. Once again, some of the films have been inexplicably cropped to simulate a widescreen format.
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010
8.0Under the company name of Have Peanuts Will Travel, Loopy helps a safari hunter with the delivery of an elephant on a ship to the circus, but Bigelow Mouse perverts the delivery from going through.
Elephantastic
1964
6.6How 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
1.0In France, Loopy meets the four musketeers and one of them goes to rescue a princess and Loopy goes with him to see him in action.
Swash Buckled
1962
7.0The three bears try to train to become vaudeville stars, but things do not go well for Pa Bear.
Bear Feat
1949
7.3The Coyote chases the Road Runner through a maze of mine shafts.
Beep, Beep
1952
7.5The old fishing boat captain tells the story of Chilly Willy, a singing polar bear and a bulldog who quickly falls asleep when he hears a lullaby.
The Legend of Rockabye Point
1955
9.0Loopy runs a organization called S.S.A. (Sheep Stealers Anonymous) to help wolves who are addicted to sheep, Sam Wolf however, becomes trouble for Loopy.
Sheep Stealers Anonymous
1963
7.0Loopy helps a turkey hide from Farmer George and his dog, Woofer.
Drum-Sticked
1963
6.7Bugs disguises himself as Hitler, Stalin and Brunhilde when he confronts Nazi Hermann Goering in the Black Forest.
Herr Meets Hare
1945
5.0A steer follows Bon Bon home, but Loopy has trouble returning it to the watchdog.
Beef For And After
1962
5.2Ralph Phillips is overjoyed when he runs out of Fort Itude, because he's a civilian again. Things, however, don't go well for him when he gets home, and two pixies named Pete and Re-Pete convince him to stay in civilian life or go back to the army. At the end, Ralph chooses to go back to the army
90 Day Wondering
1956
8.0Loopy agrees to help in getting rid of Bigelow Mouse, or otherwise Chaterly's owner will throw Chaterly out of the house for not doing his job as a cat.
Big Mouse-Take
1965
5.7A take-off on Jack and the Beanstalk where Loopy participates in the well-known fairy tale by climbing a beanstalk by bringing back Jack to his mother and meets the giant.
Fee Fie Foes
1961
6.6Foghorn's going fishing, but a fox has other plans for him. Posing as a racetrack tout, he suggests Foggy get a hunting dog and go hunting. Once the dog is gone, the fox comes after the chickens. One of them pulls the fox alarm, and the dog comes running back (too late). The fox next poses as a quiz show host, tricking Foghorn and the dog into blowing each other up. They go through another cycle or two of abuse before identifying their common enemy. They team up and go after him.
Fox-Terror
1957
A slick movie director tricks a hayseed horse into becoming a stunt double.
It's a Grand Old Nag
1947
5.6During a square dance, held on a dog's back, celebrating the upcoming marriage between a boy and girl flea, a city-slicker flea shows up and kidnaps the girl to the big-city. The boyfriend follows and rescues her from the villain's penthouse apartment.
Flea for Two
1955

