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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

2025

Looney Tunes Collector's Vault Volume 1 ... (Director)

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's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary! as Self (archive footage)

2014

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

2013

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

2012

King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution as Self
Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul as Himself (Archive Footage)
Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection ... (Director)

2011

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

2010

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

2009

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood as Self

2008

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

2007

Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 ... (Director)

2005

Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War! as Himself

2004

Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery as Self
Daffy Duck for President ... (In Memory Of)
It Hopped One Night: A Look at ‘One Froggy Evening’ as Himself (archive footage)

2003

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

2002

Mark Twain as Self (uncredited)
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mark Twain as self
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

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

1998

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

1997

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

1996

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

1995

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

1994

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

1992

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

1991

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

1990

Gremlins 2: The New Batch ... (Animation Director)

1988

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

1987

Innerspace as Supermarket Customer

1986

Matlock as Magician #1
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary as Self

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

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

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

1977

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

1976

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

1975

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

1973

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

1972

The Lorax ... (Storyboard Artist)

1971

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

1970

The Phantom Tollbooth ... (Producer)
Horton Hears a Who! as Junior Kangaroo / Various Whos / Quizmo McKwoff / JoJo (voice)

1969

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

1967

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

1966

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

1965

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

1964

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

1963

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

1962

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

1961

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

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1953

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

1952

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

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

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

1947

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

1946

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

1945

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

1944

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

1943

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

1942

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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

1935

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

1934

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