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
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)
- 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)
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 (uncredited)
- Mark Twain as self
- 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)
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 ... (Story)
1997
- Ducktators as Self
- Father Of The Bird ... (Producer)
- From Hare to Eternity ... (Producer)
- Pullet Surprise ... (Producer)
1996
- Great Drives as Self
- 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
- 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)
- Chuck Amuck: The Movie as Himself
- 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
- 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
- The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special ... (Director)
- Spaced Out Bunny ... (Writer)
- Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special ... (Director)
- Soup or Sonic ... (Director)
- Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century ... (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 in Space ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special ... (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)
- A Cricket in Times Square ... (Writer)
- Man: The Polluter ... (Director)
1971
- The Cat in the Hat ... (Producer)
- A Christmas Carol ... (Executive Producer)
- Curiosity Shop
- The Tool Box ... (Executive Producer)
- The Wizard of Id ... (Executive Producer)
1970
- Horton Hears a Who! as Junior Kangaroo / Various Whos / Quizmo McKwoff / JoJo (voice)
- The Phantom Tollbooth ... (Producer)
1969
- The Pogo Special Birthday Special as Porky Pine / Bun Rab / Basil the Butterfly (voice)
1967
- Omnibus
- Cannery Rodent ... (Director)
- Advance and Be Mechanized ... (Producer)
- Cat and Dupli-cat ... (Director)
- 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)
1966
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ... (Director)
- Catty-Cornered ... (Producer)
- Love Me, Love My Mouse ... (Director)
- Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary ... (Director)
- Duel Personality ... (Director)
1965
- Zip Zip Hooray! ... (Director)
- The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics ... (Producer)
- Haunted Mouse ... (Director)
- Tom-ic Energy ... (Producer)
- Of Feline Bondage ... (Director)
- I'm Just Wild About Jerry ... (Director)
- The Year of the Mouse ... (Director)
- Bad Day at Cat Rock ... (Director)
- The Cat's Me-Ouch ... (Director)
- Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life ... (Director)
- Roadrunner a Go-Go ... (Director)
1964
- Snowbody Loves Me ... (Director)
- Much Ado About Mousing ... (Director)
- The Cat Above and the Mouse Below ... (Director)
- The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse ... (Producer)
- War and Pieces ... (Director)
- Is There a Doctor in the Mouse? ... (Director)
1963
- Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection ... (Director)
- Hare-Breadth Hurry ... (Director)
- Transylvania 6-5000 ... (Director)
- To Beep or Not to Beep ... (Story)
- Mad as a Mars Hare ... (Director)
- I Was a Teenage Thumb ... (Director)
- Now Hear This ... (Story)
- Pent-House Mouse ... (Producer)
1962
- Gay Purr-ee ... (Writer)
- Adventures of the Road-Runner ... (Director)
- Zoom at the Top ... (Director)
- A Sheep in the Deep ... (Director)
- Martian Through Georgia ... (Director)
- Louvre Come Back to Me! ... (Director)
1961
- Bachelor in Paradise ... (Title Designer)
- The Abominable Snow Rabbit ... (Director)
- Zip 'n Snort ... (Director)
- Compressed Hare ... (Director)
- Nelly's Folly ... (Director)
- Beep Prepared ... (Director)
- A Scent of the Matterhorn ... (Director)
- Lickety-Splat ... (Director)
- The Mouse on 57th Street ... (Director)
- Bad-Time Story ... (Director)
1960
- Rabbit's Feat ... (Director)
- High Note ... (Director)
- Fastest with the Mostest ... (Director)
- Who Scent You? ... (Director)
- Hopalong Casualty ... (Director)
- Ready, Woolen and Able ... (Director)
1959
- Baton Bunny ... (Director)
- Hot-Rod and Reel! ... (Director)
- Wild About Hurry ... (Director)
- Hare-abian Nights ... (Director)
1958
- Whoa, Be-Gone! ... (Director)
- Hare-Way to the Stars ... (Director)
- Cat Feud ... (Director)
- Hip Hip-Hurry! ... (Director)
- Hook, Line and Stinker ... (Director)
- Robin Hood Daffy ... (Director)
- To Itch His Own ... (Director)
1957
- Ali Baba Bunny ... (Director)
- What's Opera, Doc? ... (Director)
- Boyhood Daze ... (Director)
- Zoom and Bored ... (Director)
- Touché and Go ... (Director)
- Steal Wool ... (Director)
- Scrambled Aches ... (Director)
- Go Fly a Kit ... (Director)
- Drafty, Isn't It? ... (Writer)
1956
- Broom-Stick Bunny ... (Director)
- Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z ... (Director)
- Rocket-bye Baby ... (Director)
- There They Go-Go-Go! ... (Director)
- Barbary-Coast Bunny ... (Director)
- Deduce, You Say ... (Director)
- Bugs' Bonnets ... (Director)
- 90 Day Wondering ... (Director)
- Heaven Scent ... (Director)
- Rocket Squad ... (Director)
- To Hare Is Human ... (Director)
1955
- Past Perfumance ... (Director)
- One Froggy Evening ... (Director)
- Knight-Mare Hare ... (Director)
- Rabbit Rampage ... (Director)
- Double or Mutton ... (Director)
- Guided Muscle ... (Director)
- Beanstalk Bunny ... (Director)
- Ready.. Set.. Zoom! ... (Director)
- Two Scent's Worth ... (Director)
- Jumpin' Jupiter ... (Director)
- A Hitch in Time ... (Writer)
1954
- Feline Frame-Up ... (Director)
- The Cats Bah ... (Director)
- Bewitched Bunny ... (Director)
- Baby Buggy Bunny ... (Director)
- My Little Duckaroo ... (Director)
- Stop! Look! and Hasten! ... (Director)
- From A to Z-Z-Z-Z ... (Director)
- No Barking ... (Director)
- Claws for Alarm ... (Director)
- Sheep Ahoy ... (Director)
1953
- The Oscars as Self
- Punch Trunk ... (Director)
- Duck Amuck ... (Director)
- Kiss Me Cat ... (Director)
- Zipping Along ... (Director)
- Wild Over You ... (Director)
- Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century ... (Director)
- Bully for Bugs ... (Director)
- Lumber Jack-Rabbit ... (Director)
- Forward March Hare ... (Director)
- Don't Give Up the Sheep ... (Director)
- Much Ado About Nutting ... (Director)
- Duck! Rabbit, Duck! ... (Director)
1952
- Operation: Rabbit ... (Director)
- Water, Water Every Hare ... (Director)
- Beep, Beep ... (Director)
- Rabbit Seasoning ... (Director)
- Feed the Kitty ... (Director)
- Orange Blossoms for Violet ... (Director)
- Little Beau Pepé ... (Director)
- Going! Going! Gosh! ... (Director)
- Terrier-Stricken ... (Director)
- The Hasty Hare ... (Director)
- Mouse-Warming ... (Director)
1951
- Bunny Hugged ... (Director)
- Rabbit Fire ... (Director)
- Cheese Chasers ... (Director)
- His Hare Raising Tale ... (Director)
- A Hound for Trouble ... (Director)
- Drip-Along Daffy ... (Director)
- Chow Hound ... (Director)
- A Bear for Punishment ... (Director)
- The Wearing of the Grin ... (Director)
- Scent-imental Romeo ... (Director)
1950
- Rabbit of Seville ... (Director)
- The Ducksters ... (Director)
- Homeless Hare ... (Director)
- Dog Gone South ... (Director)
- 8 Ball Bunny ... (Director)
- The Scarlet Pumpernickel ... (Director)
- The Hypo-Chondri-Cat ... (Director)
- Two's a Crowd ... (Director)
- Caveman Inki ... (Director)
1949
- Frigid Hare ... (Director)
- Long-Haired Hare ... (Director)
- Fast and Furry-ous ... (Director)
- Often an Orphan ... (Director)
- The Bee-Deviled Bruin ... (Director)
- So Much for So Little ... (Writer)
- Awful Orphan ... (Director)
- For Scent-imental Reasons ... (Director)
- Rabbit Hood ... (Director)
- Mouse Wreckers ... (Director)
- Mississippi Hare ... (Director)
- Bear Feat ... (Director)
1948
- Scaredy Cat ... (Director)
- Daffy Dilly ... (Director)
- Haredevil Hare ... (Director)
- A Feather in His Hare ... (Director)
- Rabbit Punch ... (Director)
- What's Brewin', Bruin? ... (Director)
- My Bunny Lies Over the Sea ... (Director)
- You Were Never Duckier ... (Director)
1947
- Scent-imental Over You ... (Director)
- Little Orphan Airedale ... (Director)
- A Pest in the House ... (Director)
- House Hunting Mice ... (Director)
- Inki at the Circus ... (Director)
1946
- Roughly Squeaking ... (Director)
- The Eager Beaver ... (Director)
- Hair-Raising Hare ... (Director)
- Fair and Worm-er ... (Director)
- Quentin Quail ... (Director)
- Hush My Mouse ... (Director)
1945
- In the Aleutians ... (Director)
- Odor-Able Kitty ... (Director)
- Hare Tonic ... (Director)
- No Buddy Atoll ... (Director)
- The Good Egg ... (Director)
- It's Murder She Says... ... (Director)
- Trap Happy Porky ... (Director)
- Hare Conditioned ... (Director)
- Fresh Airedale ... (Director)
1944
- Going Home ... (Director)
- Outpost ... (Director)
- Gas ... (Director)
- Angel Puss ... (Director)
- Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears ... (Director)
- The Weakly Reporter ... (Director)
- Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike ... (Director)
- Tom Turk and Daffy ... (Director)
- From Hand to Mouse ... (Director)
- Hell-Bent for Election ... (Director)
- Lost and Foundling ... (Director)
- A Lecture on Camouflage ... (Director)
1943
- Spies ... (Director)
- Coming!! Snafu ... (Director)
- The Unbearable Bear ... (Director)
- Flop Goes the Weasel ... (Director)
- The Aristo-Cat ... (Director)
- Wackiki Wabbit ... (Director)
- Inki and the Minah Bird ... (Director)
- Super-Rabbit ... (Director)
- The Infantry Blues ... (Director)
- Point Rationing of Foods ... (Writer)
- Fin'n Catty ... (Director)
- To Duck.... Or Not to Duck ... (Director)
1942
- Fox Pop ... (Director)
- Dog Tired ... (Director)
- Case of the Missing Hare ... (Director)
- Conrad the Sailor ... (Director)
- The Draft Horse ... (Director)
- The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall ... (Director)
- The Bird Came C.O.D. ... (Director)
- Hold the Lion, Please ... (Director)
- Porky's Cafe ... (Director)
- My Favorite Duck ... (Director)
- The Squawkin' Hawk ... (Director)
1941
- Saddle Silly ... (Director)
- Porky's Ant ... (Director)
- Porky's Prize Pony ... (Director)
- Sniffles Bells the Cat ... (Director)
- Elmer's Pet Rabbit ... (Director)
- Toy Trouble ... (Director)
- Porky's Midnight Matinee ... (Director)
- Inki and the Lion ... (Director)
- Joe Glow, the Firefly ... (Director)
- The Brave Little Bat ... (Director)
- Snow Time for Comedy ... (Director)
1940
- You Ought to Be in Pictures as Guy Running Out at Super Speed (archive footage) (uncredited)
- Good Night Elmer ... (Director)
- Bedtime for Sniffles ... (Director)
- The Egg Collector ... (Director)
- Elmer's Candid Camera ... (Director)
- Sniffles Takes a Trip ... (Director)
- Mighty Hunters ... (Director)
- Stage Fright ... (Director)
- Tom Thumb in Trouble ... (Director)
- Ghost Wanted ... (Director)
1939
- Snowman's Land ... (Director)
- Sniffles and the Bookworm ... (Director)
- Old Glory ... (Director)
- Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur ... (Director)
- Naughty But Mice ... (Director)
- The Good Egg ... (Director)
- Prest-O Change-O ... (Director)
- The Little Lion Hunter ... (Director)
- Robin Hood Makes Good ... (Director)
- The Curious Puppy ... (Director)
- Dog Gone Modern ... (Director)
- Little Brother Rat ... (Director)
1938
- Porky's Five & Ten ... (Animation)
- Porky's Poppa ... (Assistant Director)
- The Night Watchman ... (Director)
1937
- Picador Porky ... (Animation)
- Get Rich Quick Porky ... (Assistant Director)
- Porky's Hero Agency ... (Animation)
- Porky's Super Service ... (Animation)
- 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
- Those Beautiful Dames ... (Animation)
- The Girl at the Ironing Board ... (Animation)
1931
- The Soup Song ... (Animation)