Maurice Noble

Born: 1910-05-01 in Minnesota, USA

Died: 2001-05-19

Known For: Visual Effects

Biography

Maurice James Noble (May 1, 1910 – May 19, 2001) was an American animation production designer, background artist and layout designer whose contributions to the industry spanned more than 60 years. He was a long-time associate and right-hand man of animation director Chuck Jones, especially at Warner Bros. including Disney, MGM, Walter Lantz and Hanna-Barbera in the 1950s. His work contributed to such cartoon classics as Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, What's Opera, Doc? and the Road Runner series. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia; indicated birth/death dates reflect adjustments to match Mr. Noble's grave marker dates]

Filmography

2001

Timber Wolf ... (Production Design)

2000

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

1999

Al Tudi Tuhak as Narrator (voice)

1998

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

1997

Father Of The Bird ... (Color Designer)

1992

The Magical World of Chuck Jones as Self

1991

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes ... (Co-Director)

1990

Tiny Toon Adventures ... (Writer)

1980

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special ... (Layout Supervisor)

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie ... (Production Design)

1977

Bugs Bunny in Space ... (Director)

1971

The Cat in the Hat ... (Production Design)

1970

The Phantom Tollbooth ... (Production Design)
Horton Hears a Who! ... (Production Design)

1967

Cat and Dupli-cat ... (Co-Director)
The Bear That Wasn't ... (Co-Director)
Cannery Rodent ... (Co-Director)

1966

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! ... (Production Design)
Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary ... (Co-Director)
Duel Personality ... (Co-Director)

1965

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

1964

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

1963

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

1962

About Time ... (Layout Supervisor)
Louvre Come Back to Me! ... (Co-Director)
A Sheep in the Deep ... (Co-Director)
Martian Through Georgia ... (Co-Director)
Zoom at the Top ... (Co-Director)

1961

Beep Prepared ... (Co-Director)
Nelly's Folly ... (Co-Director)
Compressed Hare ... (Co-Director)
The Abominable Snow Rabbit ... (Co-Director)
A Scent of the Matterhorn ... (Layout Supervisor)

1960

Who Scent You? ... (Layout Supervisor)
High Note ... (Layout Supervisor)

1959

Baton Bunny ... (Layout Supervisor)

1958

Cat Feud ... (Layout Supervisor)
Whoa, Be-Gone! ... (Layout Supervisor)
Hare-Way to the Stars ... (Layout Supervisor)

1957

Scrambled Aches ... (Layout Supervisor)
Steal Wool ... (Layout Supervisor)
Zoom and Bored ... (Layout Supervisor)

1956

Deduce, You Say ... (Layout Supervisor)

1955

Two Scent's Worth ... (Layout Supervisor)
Ready.. Set.. Zoom! ... (Layout Supervisor)

1954

Sheep Ahoy ... (Layout Supervisor)
No Barking ... (Layout Supervisor)
It's Everybody's Business ... (Art Direction)
Stop! Look! and Hasten! ... (Layout Supervisor)
Claws for Alarm ... (Layout Supervisor)
Horizons of Hope ... (Art Direction)
The Cats Bah ... (Layout Supervisor)

1953

Duck Amuck ... (Layout Supervisor)
Zipping Along ... (Layout Supervisor)
Forward March Hare ... (Layout Supervisor)
Bully for Bugs ... (Layout Supervisor)
Much Ado About Nutting ... (Layout Supervisor)

1952

Rabbit Seasoning ... (Layout Supervisor)

1938

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs ... (Background Designer)

1936

Elmer Elephant ... (Background Designer)