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
- 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
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)
- Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire ... (Director)
- Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl ... (Director)
- Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl ... (Director)
2009
2008
- Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices as Himself (archive footage)
2007
- 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
- The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Mark Twain as Self (uncredited)
- A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade as Himself
2001
- Timber Wolf ... (Producer)
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
- Ducktators as Self
- From Hare to Eternity ... (Producer)
- Pullet Surprise ... (Producer)
- Father Of The Bird ... (Producer)
1996
- Great Drives as Self
- Superior Duck ... (Director)
- Cartoons Go To War as Himself
1995
- Four Rooms ... (Creative Consultant)
- Another Froggy Evening ... (Director)
- Peter and the Wolf ... (Executive Consultant)
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
- Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes ... (Director)
- The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame ... (Director)
- The Dating Game ... (Thanks)
- Chuck Amuck: The Movie as Himself
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
- 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)
- Spaced Out Bunny ... (Writer)
- Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special ... (Director)
- Soup or Sonic ... (Director)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over ... (Director)
- The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special ... (Director)
1979
- The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet ... (Director)
- Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile ... (Producer)
- 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's Easter Funnies ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny in Space ... (Director)
1976
- Mowgli's Brothers ... (Writer)
- Carnival of the Animals ... (Director)
1975
- Rikki-Tikki-Tavi ... (Director)
- The White Seal ... (Writer)
- Yankee Doodle Cricket ... (Director)
1973
- A Very Merry Cricket ... (Director)
- Man: The Polluter ... (Director)
- A Cricket in Times Square ... (Writer)
1971
- The Cat in the Hat ... (Producer)
- A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- Curiosity Shop
- The Wizard of Id ... (Executive Producer)
- The Tool Box ... (Executive Producer)
1970
- The Phantom Tollbooth as Cable Car Passenger (uncredited)
- 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
- Advance and Be Mechanized ... (Producer)
- The Mouse from H.U.N.G.E.R. ... (Producer)
- Purr-Chance to Dream ... (Producer)
- The Bear That Wasn't ... (Director)
- Guided Mouse-Ille ... (Producer)
- Cannery Rodent ... (Director)
- Cat and Dupli-cat ... (Director)
1966
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ... (Director)
- Catty-Cornered ... (Producer)
- Duel Personality ... (Director)
- Love Me, Love My Mouse ... (Director)
- Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary ... (Director)
1965
- Haunted Mouse ... (Director)
- Of Feline Bondage ... (Director)
- Tom-ic Energy ... (Producer)
- Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life ... (Director)
- The Cat's Me-Ouch ... (Director)
- Zip Zip Hooray! ... (Director)
- The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics ... (Producer)
- The Year of the Mouse ... (Director)
- I'm Just Wild About Jerry ... (Director)
- Bad Day at Cat Rock ... (Director)
- Roadrunner a Go-Go ... (Director)
1964
- War and Pieces ... (Director)
- Much Ado About Mousing ... (Director)
- Snowbody Loves Me ... (Director)
- Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? ... (Director)
- The Cat Above and the Mouse Below ... (Director)
- The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse ... (Producer)
1963
- Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection ... (Director)
- Hare-Breadth Hurry ... (Director)
- Mad as a Mars Hare ... (Director)
- Transylvania 6-5000 ... (Director)
- Now Hear This ... (Story)
- Pent-House Mouse ... (Producer)
- To Beep or Not to Beep ... (Story)
- I Was a Teenage Thumb ... (Director)
1962
- Gay Purr-ee ... (Writer)
- Adventures of the Road-Runner ... (Director)
- A Sheep in the Deep ... (Director)
- Zoom at the Top ... (Director)
- Martian Through Georgia ... (Director)
- Louvre Come Back to Me! ... (Director)
1961
- Bachelor in Paradise ... (Title Designer)
- Zip 'n Snort ... (Director)
- Nelly's Folly ... (Director)
- The Mouse on 57th Street ... (Director)
- Beep Prepared ... (Director)
- Lickety-Splat ... (Director)
- Compressed Hare ... (Director)
- The Abominable Snow Rabbit ... (Director)
- A Scent of the Matterhorn ... (Director)
- Bad-Time Story ... (Director)
1960
- High Note ... (Director)
- Who Scent You? ... (Director)
- Rabbit's Feat ... (Director)
- Ready, Woolen and Able ... (Director)
- Fastest with the Mostest ... (Director)
- Hopalong Casualty ... (Director)
1959
- Hare-abian Nights ... (Director)
- Baton Bunny ... (Director)
- Wild About Hurry ... (Director)
- Hot-Rod and Reel! ... (Director)
1958
- Robin Hood Daffy ... (Director)
- Cat Feud ... (Director)
- Hook, Line and Stinker ... (Director)
- Hare-Way to the Stars ... (Director)
- Whoa, Be-Gone! ... (Director)
- Hip Hip-Hurry! ... (Director)
- To Itch His Own ... (Director)
1957
- What's Opera, Doc? ... (Director)
- Ali Baba Bunny ... (Director)
- Zoom and Bored ... (Director)
- Boyhood Daze ... (Director)
- Steal Wool ... (Director)
- Touché and Go ... (Director)
- Scrambled Aches ... (Director)
- Go Fly a Kit ... (Director)
- Drafty, Isn't It? ... (Writer)
1956
- Broom-Stick Bunny ... (Director)
- Deduce, You Say ... (Director)
- 90 Day Wondering ... (Director)
- Rocket-bye Baby ... (Director)
- Bugs' Bonnets ... (Director)
- Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z ... (Director)
- There They Go-Go-Go! ... (Director)
- Barbary-Coast Bunny ... (Director)
- To Hare Is Human ... (Director)
- Heaven Scent ... (Director)
- Rocket Squad ... (Director)
1955
- Past Perfumance ... (Director)
- One Froggy Evening ... (Director)
- Double or Mutton ... (Director)
- Two Scent's Worth ... (Director)
- Beanstalk Bunny ... (Director)
- Ready.. Set.. Zoom! ... (Director)
- Knight-Mare Hare ... (Director)
- Rabbit Rampage ... (Director)
- Jumpin' Jupiter ... (Director)
- Guided Muscle ... (Director)
- A Hitch in Time ... (Writer)
1954
- Claws for Alarm ... (Director)
- From A to Z-Z-Z-Z ... (Director)
- My Little Duckaroo ... (Director)
- Bewitched Bunny ... (Director)
- Baby Buggy Bunny ... (Director)
- No Barking ... (Director)
- Feline Frame-Up ... (Director)
- The Cats Bah ... (Director)
- Sheep Ahoy ... (Director)
- Stop! Look! and Hasten! ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Duck Amuck ... (Director)
- Wild Over You ... (Director)
- Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century ... (Director)
- Bully for Bugs ... (Director)
- Lumber Jack-Rabbit ... (Director)
- Duck! Rabbit, Duck! ... (Director)
- Kiss Me Cat ... (Director)
- Zipping Along ... (Director)
- Forward March Hare ... (Director)
- Don't Give Up the Sheep ... (Director)
- Much Ado About Nutting ... (Director)
- Punch Trunk ... (Director)
1952
- Rabbit Seasoning ... (Director)
- Beep, Beep ... (Director)
- Little Beau Pepé ... (Director)
- Water, Water Every Hare ... (Director)
- Going! Going! Gosh! ... (Director)
- Feed the Kitty ... (Director)
- Operation: Rabbit ... (Director)
- The Hasty Hare ... (Director)
- Orange Blossoms for Violet ... (Director)
- Mouse-Warming ... (Director)
- Terrier-Stricken ... (Director)
1951
- Rabbit Fire ... (Director)
- His Hare Raising Tale ... (Director)
- Scent-imental Romeo ... (Director)
- Chow Hound ... (Director)
- A Bear for Punishment ... (Director)
- Cheese Chasers ... (Director)
- Bunny Hugged ... (Director)
- Drip-Along Daffy ... (Director)
- A Hound for Trouble ... (Director)
- The Wearing of the Grin ... (Director)
1950
- 8 Ball Bunny ... (Director)
- Rabbit of Seville ... (Director)
- The Scarlet Pumpernickel ... (Director)
- The Ducksters ... (Director)
- Dog Gone South ... (Director)
- The Hypo-Chondri-Cat ... (Director)
- Homeless Hare ... (Director)
- Two's a Crowd ... (Director)
- Caveman Inki ... (Director)
1949
- Fast and Furry-ous ... (Director)
- Bear Feat ... (Director)
- Frigid Hare ... (Director)
- Rabbit Hood ... (Director)
- So Much for So Little ... (Writer)
- For Scent-imental Reasons ... (Director)
- Long-Haired Hare ... (Director)
- Mouse Wreckers ... (Director)
- Mississippi Hare ... (Director)
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin ... (Director)
- Awful Orphan ... (Director)
- Often an Orphan ... (Director)
1948
- Scaredy Cat ... (Director)
- Haredevil Hare ... (Director)
- Rabbit Punch ... (Director)
- Daffy Dilly ... (Director)
- A Feather in His Hare ... (Director)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? ... (Director)
- You Were Never Duckier ... (Director)
- My Bunny Lies Over the Sea ... (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
- Roughly Squeaking ... (Director)
- Hair-Raising Hare ... (Director)
- Quentin Quail ... (Director)
- Fair and Worm-er ... (Director)
- Hush My Mouse ... (Director)
- The Eager Beaver ... (Director)
1945
- Hare Tonic ... (Director)
- Odor-Able Kitty ... (Director)
- Trap Happy Porky ... (Director)
- In the Aleutians ... (Director)
- It's Murder She Says... ... (Director)
- Hare Conditioned ... (Director)
- No Buddy Atoll ... (Director)
- Fresh Airedale ... (Director)
- The Good Egg ... (Director)
1944
- Going Home ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ... (Director)
- Angel Puss ... (Director)
- Gas ... (Director)
- The Weakly Reporter ... (Director)
- Outpost ... (Director)
- Tom Turk and Daffy ... (Director)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ... (Director)
- A Lecture on Camouflage ... (Director)
- From Hand to Mouse ... (Director)
- Hell-Bent for Election ... (Director)
- Lost and Foundling ... (Director)
1943
- Point Rationing of Foods ... (Writer)
- Coming!! Snafu ... (Director)
- Super-Rabbit ... (Director)
- The Aristo-Cat ... (Director)
- Spies ... (Director)
- Wackiki Wabbit ... (Director)
- The Unbearable Bear ... (Director)
- Fin'n Catty ... (Director)
- The Infantry Blues ... (Director)
- Inki and the Minah Bird ... (Director)
- To Duck.... Or Not to Duck ... (Director)
- Flop Goes the Weasel ... (Director)
1942
- Fox Pop ... (Director)
- The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall ... (Director)
- Conrad the Sailor ... (Director)
- Dog Tired ... (Director)
- The Draft Horse ... (Director)
- Hold the Lion, Please ... (Director)
- The Bird Came C.O.D. ... (Director)
- Porky's Cafe ... (Director)
- Case of the Missing Hare ... (Director)
- My Favorite Duck ... (Director)
- The Squawkin' Hawk ... (Director)
1941
- Elmer's Pet Rabbit ... (Director)
- Saddle Silly ... (Director)
- Sniffles Bells the Cat ... (Director)
- The Brave Little Bat ... (Director)
- Porky's Ant ... (Director)
- Joe Glow, the Firefly ... (Director)
- Toy Trouble ... (Director)
- Porky's Prize Pony ... (Director)
- Snow Time for Comedy ... (Director)
- Porky's Midnight Matinee ... (Director)
- Inki and the Lion ... (Director)
1940
- Bedtime for Sniffles ... (Director)
- Elmer's Candid Camera ... (Director)
- You Ought to Be in Pictures as Guy Running Out at Super Speed (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Tom Thumb in Trouble ... (Director)
- Sniffles Takes a Trip ... (Director)
- Good Night Elmer ... (Director)
- The Egg Collector ... (Director)
- Stage Fright ... (Director)
- Ghost Wanted ... (Director)
- Mighty Hunters ... (Director)
1939
- Prest-O Change-O ... (Director)
- Little Brother Rat ... (Director)
- Old Glory ... (Director)
- The Curious Puppy ... (Director)
- Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ... (Director)
- Robin Hood Makes Good ... (Director)
- Naughty But Mice ... (Director)
- Sniffles and the Bookworm ... (Director)
- Snowman's Land ... (Director)
- The Good Egg ... (Director)
- The Little Lion Hunter ... (Director)
- Dog Gone Modern ... (Director)
1938
- Porky's Poppa ... (Assistant Director)
- Porky's Five & Ten ... (Animation)
- The Night Watchman ... (Director)
1937
- Picador Porky ... (Animation)
- Get Rich Quick Porky ... (Assistant Director)
- Porky's Super Service ... (Animation)
- Porky and Gabby ... (Animation)
- Porky the Wrestler ... (Animation)
- Porky's Hero Agency ... (Animation)
- I Only Have Eyes for You ... (Animation)
1936
- I Love to Singa ... (Animation)
- Milk and Money ... (Animation)
- Page Miss Glory ... (Animation)
1935
- My Green Fedora ... (Animation)
- Hollywood Capers ... (Animation)
1934
- Those Beautiful Dames ... (Animation)
- The Girl at the Ironing Board ... (Animation)
1931
- The Soup Song ... (Animation)