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Chuck Jones

Born: 1912-09-21 in Spokane, Washington, USA

Died: 2002-02-22

Known For: Directing

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

Filmography

2023

Private SNAFU Golden Classics ... (Director of Operations)

2022

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox as Self (archive footage)

2020

Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! as Self (archive footage)

2014

A Looney Tunes Thanksgiving ... (Director)
That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace as Himself (archive footage)

2013

Tom and Jerry's Winter Wackiness ... (Story)

2012

King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution as Self
Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection ... (Director)

2011

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One ... (Director)
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet as Self (archive footage)

2010

The Essential Bugs Bunny ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny at the Symphony ... (Animation Director)
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl ... (Director)
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire ... (Director)
Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl ... (Director)

2009

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood as Self

2008

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices as Himself (archive footage)

2007

Behind the Tunes: Drawn to Life - The Art of Robert McKimson ... (Director)
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 ... (Director)

2004

Daffy Duck for President ... (In Memory Of)

2003

Duck Dodgers ... (Thanks)
Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1 ... (Director)
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes as Himself

2002

Mark Twain as self
Mark Twain as Self (uncredited)
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade as Himself

2001

Timber Wolf ... (Producer)

2000

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

1999

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story as Himself
Looney Tunes All Stars ... (Director)

1998

Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes ... (Director)
Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth ... (Director)

1997

From Hare to Eternity ... (Director)
Father Of The Bird ... (Producer)
Ducktators as Self
Pullet Surprise ... (Producer)

1996

Great Drives as Self
Cartoons Go To War as Himself
Superior Duck ... (Director)

1995

Four Rooms ... (Creative Consultant)
Peter and the Wolf ... (Executive Consultant)
Another Froggy Evening ... (Director)

1994

Chariots of Fur ... (Director)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition as Self

1992

Stay Tuned ... (Animation Supervisor)
The Magical World of Chuck Jones as Self

1991

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes ... (Director)
Chuck Amuck: The Movie as Himself
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame ... (Director)
The Dating Game ... (Thanks)

1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch ... (Animation Director)
Happy Birthday, Bugs! 50 Looney Years as Self

1988

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters ... (Director)
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons as Himself
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town as Self – Interviewee
Portrait of Tex Avery

1987

Innerspace as Supermarket Customer

1986

Matlock as Magician #1
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary as Self

1985

Warner Bros. Cartoons Golden Jubilee 24 Karat Collection - Road Runner vs. Wile E. Coyote: The Classic Chase ... (Director)

1984

Gremlins as Mr. Jones

1983

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island ... (Director)

1982

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television ... (Director)

1981

A Chipmunk Christmas ... (Character Designer)

1980

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over ... (Director)
Spaced Out Bunny ... (Director)
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special ... (Writer)
Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century ... (Director)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny ... (Director)
Soup or Sonic ... (Director)

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ... (Director)
Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet ... (Director)
Freeze Frame ... (Director)

1978

How Bugs Bunny Won the West ... (Director)
Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Great Santa Claus Caper ... (Director)
A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court ... (Director)

1977

Bugs Bunny in Space ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special ... (Director)

1976

Carnival of the Animals ... (Director)
Mowgli's Brothers ... (Writer)

1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ... (Director)
The White Seal ... (Director)
Yankee Doodle Cricket ... (Director)

1973

A Very Merry Cricket ... (Director)
A Cricket in Times Square ... (Director)
Man: The Polluter ... (Director)

1971

The Cat in the Hat ... (Producer)
Curiosity Shop
A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
The Wizard of Id ... (Executive Producer)
The Tool Box ... (Executive Producer)

1970

Horton Hears a Who! as Junior Kangaroo / Various Whos / Quizmo McKwoff / JoJo (voice)
The Phantom Tollbooth as Cable Car Passenger (uncredited)

1969

The Pogo Special Birthday Special as Porky Pine / Bun Rab / Basil the Butterfly (voice)

1967

Omnibus
Advance and Be Mechanized ... (Producer)
Cannery Rodent ... (Director)
Cat and Dupli-cat ... (Director)
The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. ... (Producer)
The Bear That Wasn't ... (Director)
Purr-Chance to Dream ... (Producer)
Guided Mouse-Ille ... (Producer)

1966

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ... (Director)
Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary ... (Director)
Love Me, Love My Mouse ... (Director)
Duel Personality ... (Director)
Catty-Cornered ... (Producer)

1965

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics ... (Director)
Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life ... (Director)
Haunted Mouse ... (Director)
I'm Just Wild About Jerry ... (Director)
Zip Zip Hooray! ... (Director)
The Year of the Mouse ... (Director)
Roadrunner a Go-Go ... (Director)
The Cat's Me-Ouch ... (Director)
Of Feline Bondage ... (Director)
Bad Day at Cat Rock ... (Director)
Tom-ic Energy ... (Story)

1964

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? ... (Director)
Much Ado About Mousing ... (Director)
The Cat Above and the Mouse Below ... (Director)
The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse ... (Story)
Snowbody Loves Me ... (Director)
War and Pieces ... (Director)

1963

Hare-Breadth Hurry ... (Director)
Mad as a Mars Hare ... (Director)
To Beep or Not to Beep ... (Director)
Transylvania 6-5000 ... (Director)
Pent-House Mouse ... (Story)
I Was a Teenage Thumb ... (Director)
Now Hear This ... (Story)

1962

Gay Purr-ee ... (Writer)
Adventures of the Road-Runner ... (Director)
Louvre Come Back to Me! ... (Director)
Martian Through Georgia ... (Director)
A Sheep in the Deep ... (Director)
Zoom at the Top ... (Director)

1961

Bachelor in Paradise ... (Title Designer)
The Mouse on 57th Street ... (Director)
Zip 'n Snort ... (Director)
The Abominable Snow Rabbit ... (Director)
Nelly's Folly ... (Director)
A Scent of the Matterhorn ... (Director)
Compressed Hare ... (Director)
Lickety-Splat ... (Director)
Beep Prepared ... (Director)
Bad-Time Story ... (Director)

1960

Fastest with the Mostest ... (Director)
Ready, Woolen and Able ... (Director)
Rabbit's Feat ... (Director)
Hopalong Casualty ... (Director)
Who Scent You? ... (Director)
High Note ... (Director)

1959

Baton Bunny ... (Director)
Hare-abian Nights ... (Director)
Hot-Rod and Reel! ... (Director)
Wild About Hurry ... (Director)

1958

Hare-Way to the Stars ... (Director)
To Itch His Own ... (Director)
Cat Feud ... (Director)
Hook, Line and Stinker ... (Director)
Robin Hood Daffy ... (Director)
Hip Hip-Hurry! ... (Director)
Whoa, Be-Gone! ... (Director)

1957

What's Opera, Doc? ... (Director)
Ali Baba Bunny ... (Director)
Zoom and Bored ... (Director)
Drafty, Isn't It? ... (Director)
Go Fly a Kit ... (Director)
Touché and Go ... (Director)
Boyhood Daze ... (Director)
Scrambled Aches ... (Director)
Steal Wool ... (Director)

1956

Deduce, You Say ... (Director)
There They Go-Go-Go! ... (Director)
Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z ... (Director)
Broom-Stick Bunny ... (Director)
Rocket-bye Baby ... (Director)
Barbary-Coast Bunny ... (Director)
To Hare Is Human ... (Director)
90 Day Wondering ... (Director)
Bugs' Bonnets ... (Director)
Rocket Squad ... (Director)
Heaven Scent ... (Director)

1955

Past Perfumance ... (Director)
Beanstalk Bunny ... (Director)
Two Scent's Worth ... (Director)
One Froggy Evening ... (Director)
A Hitch in Time ... (Director)
Guided Muscle ... (Director)
Rabbit Rampage ... (Director)
Knight-Mare Hare ... (Director)
Double or Mutton ... (Director)
Ready.. Set.. Zoom! ... (Director)
Jumpin' Jupiter ... (Director)

1954

Stop! Look! and Hasten! ... (Director)
Baby Buggy Bunny ... (Director)
From A to Z-Z-Z-Z ... (Director)
The Cats Bah ... (Director)
My Little Duckaroo ... (Director)
Claws for Alarm ... (Director)
Bewitched Bunny ... (Director)
Feline Frame-Up ... (Director)
No Barking ... (Director)
Sheep Ahoy ... (Director)

1953

The Oscars as Self
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century ... (Director)
Duck Amuck ... (Director)
Kiss Me Cat ... (Director)
Lumber Jack-Rabbit ... (Director)
Don't Give Up the Sheep ... (Director)
Bully for Bugs ... (Director)
Much Ado About Nutting ... (Director)
Wild Over You ... (Director)
Zipping Along ... (Director)
Forward March Hare ... (Director)
Duck! Rabbit, Duck! ... (Director)
Punch Trunk ... (Director)

1952

Water, Water Every Hare ... (Director)
Terrier-Stricken ... (Director)
Feed the Kitty ... (Director)
Orange Blossoms for Violet ... (Director)
Rabbit Seasoning ... (Director)
Operation: Rabbit ... (Director)
Beep, Beep ... (Director)
Little Beau Pepé ... (Director)
Going! Going! Gosh! ... (Director)
Mouse-Warming ... (Director)
The Hasty Hare ... (Director)

1951

A Hound for Trouble ... (Director)
His Hare Raising Tale ... (Director)
A Bear for Punishment ... (Director)
Rabbit Fire ... (Director)
Chow Hound ... (Director)
The Wearing of the Grin ... (Director)
Drip-Along Daffy ... (Director)
Cheese Chasers ... (Director)
Scent-imental Romeo ... (Director)
Bunny Hugged ... (Director)

1950

Rabbit of Seville ... (Director)
Dog Gone South ... (Director)
The Hypo-Chondri-Cat ... (Director)
Two's a Crowd ... (Director)
The Scarlet Pumpernickel ... (Director)
The Ducksters ... (Director)
8 Ball Bunny ... (Director)
Homeless Hare ... (Director)
Caveman Inki ... (Director)

1949

Fast and Furry-ous ... (Director)
For Scent-imental Reasons ... (Director)
So Much for So Little ... (Director)
Frigid Hare ... (Director)
The Bee-Deviled Bruin ... (Director)
Long-Haired Hare ... (Director)
Bear Feat ... (Director)
Rabbit Hood ... (Director)
Mississippi Hare ... (Director)
Often an Orphan ... (Director)
Awful Orphan ... (Director)
Mouse Wreckers ... (Director)

1948

My Bunny Lies Over the Sea ... (Director)
Daffy Dilly ... (Director)
Scaredy Cat ... (Director)
What's Brewin', Bruin? ... (Director)
A Feather in His Hare ... (Director)
You Were Never Duckier ... (Director)
Rabbit Punch ... (Director)
Haredevil Hare ... (Director)

1947

Scent-imental Over You ... (Director)
A Pest in the House ... (Director)
Little Orphan Airedale ... (Director)
House Hunting Mice ... (Director)
Inki at the Circus ... (Director)

1946

Roughly Squeaking ... (Director)
The Eager Beaver ... (Director)
Fair and Worm-er ... (Director)
Hair-Raising Hare ... (Director)
Hush My Mouse ... (Director)
Quentin Quail ... (Director)

1945

Hare Conditioned ... (Director)
It's Murder She Says... ... (Director)
Odor-Able Kitty ... (Director)
Hare Tonic ... (Director)
Trap Happy Porky ... (Director)
The Good Egg ... (Director)
In the Aleutians ... (Director)
Fresh Airedale ... (Director)
No Buddy Atoll ... (Director)

1944

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ... (Director)
Going Home ... (Director)
Outpost ... (Director)
Angel Puss ... (Director)
Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ... (Director)
From Hand to Mouse ... (Director)
Tom Turk and Daffy ... (Director)
Gas ... (Director)
Hell-Bent for Election ... (Director)
A Lecture on Camouflage ... (Director)
The Weakly Reporter ... (Director)
Lost and Foundling ... (Director)

1943

Coming!! Snafu ... (Director)
Point Rationing of Foods ... (Writer)
Spies ... (Director)
Inki and the Minah Bird ... (Director)
To Duck.... Or Not to Duck ... (Director)
Flop Goes the Weasel ... (Director)
The Aristo-Cat ... (Director)
Super-Rabbit ... (Director)
Fin'n Catty ... (Director)
Wackiki Wabbit ... (Director)
The Unbearable Bear ... (Director)
The Infantry Blues ... (Director)

1942

Fox Pop ... (Director)
Dog Tired ... (Director)
The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall ... (Director)
Case of the Missing Hare ... (Director)
The Bird Came C.O.D. ... (Director)
Hold the Lion, Please ... (Director)
Porky's Cafe ... (Director)
Conrad the Sailor ... (Director)
The Draft Horse ... (Director)
My Favorite Duck ... (Director)
The Squawkin' Hawk ... (Director)

1941

Saddle Silly ... (Director)
Joe Glow, the Firefly ... (Director)
Porky's Prize Pony ... (Director)
Sniffles Bells the Cat ... (Director)
The Brave Little Bat ... (Director)
Porky's Ant ... (Director)
Porky's Midnight Matinee ... (Director)
Elmer's Pet Rabbit ... (Director)
Inki and the Lion ... (Director)
Snow Time for Comedy ... (Director)
Toy Trouble ... (Director)

1940

Looney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection ... (Creator)
Elmer's Candid Camera ... (Director)
You Ought to Be in Pictures as Guy Running Out at Super Speed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Good Night Elmer ... (Director)
Tom Thumb in Trouble ... (Director)
Bedtime for Sniffles ... (Director)
Sniffles Takes a Trip ... (Director)
The Egg Collector ... (Director)
Ghost Wanted ... (Director)
Stage Fright ... (Director)
Mighty Hunters ... (Director)

1939

Prest-O Change-O ... (Director)
Sniffles and the Bookworm ... (Director)
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ... (Director)
Naughty But Mice ... (Director)
The Curious Puppy ... (Director)
Old Glory ... (Director)
Robin Hood Makes Good ... (Director)
The Little Lion Hunter ... (Director)
The Good Egg ... (Director)
Snowman's Land ... (Director)
Little Brother Rat ... (Director)
Dog Gone Modern ... (Director)

1938

Porky's Five & Ten ... (Animation)
Porky's Poppa ... (Assistant Director)
The Night Watchman ... (Director)

1937

Porky's Hero Agency ... (Animation)
Porky's Super Service ... (Animation)
Picador Porky ... (Animation)
Get Rich Quick Porky ... (Assistant Director)
Porky and Gabby ... (Animation)
I Only Have Eyes for You ... (Animation)
Porky the Wrestler ... (Animation)

1936

I Love to Singa ... (Animation)
Milk and Money ... (Animation)
Page Miss Glory ... (Animation)

1935

My Green Fedora ... (Animation)
Hollywood Capers ... (Animation)

1934

The Girl at the Ironing Board ... (Animation)
Those Beautiful Dames ... (Animation)

1931

The Soup Song ... (Animation)

1929

Looney Tunes ... (Director)