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

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

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

2010

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

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

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

1997

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

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

1992

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

1991

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

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
Looney Tunes 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

Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century ... (Director)
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special ... (Director)
Spaced Out Bunny ... (Writer)
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special ... (Director)
Soup or Sonic ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over ... (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 ... (Producer)
Freeze Frame ... (Director)
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet ... (Director)

1978

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

1973

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

1972

The Lorax ... (Storyboard Artist)

1971

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

1967

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

1966

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

1965

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

1964

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

1963

Hare-Breadth Hurry ... (Director)
To Beep or Not to Beep ... (Story)
Pent-House Mouse ... (Producer)
Mad as a Mars Hare ... (Director)
Transylvania 6-5000 ... (Director)
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)
A Sheep in the Deep ... (Director)
Zoom at the Top ... (Director)
Martian Through Georgia ... (Director)

1961

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

1960

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

1959

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

1958

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

1957

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

1956

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

1955

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

1954

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

1953

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

1952

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

1951

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

1950

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

1949

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

1948

Haredevil Hare ... (Director)
Scaredy Cat ... (Director)
My Bunny Lies Over the Sea ... (Director)
Rabbit Punch ... (Director)
You Were Never Duckier ... (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)
Little Orphan Airedale ... (Director)
Inki at the Circus ... (Director)

1946

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

1945

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

1944

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

1943

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

1942

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

1941

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

1940

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

1939

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

1938

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

1937

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

1936

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