Chuck Jones
Directing • Born 1912-09-21 – Died 2002-02-22
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
36 credits
Horton Hears a Who!
Movie • 1970
Junior Kangaroo / Various Whos / Quizmo McKwoff / JoJo (voice)
Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood
Movie • 2009
Self
Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
You Ought to Be in Pictures
Movie • 1940
Guy Running Out at Super Speed (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mark Twain
Movie • 2002
Self (uncredited)
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
Movie • 1992
Self
It Hopped One Night: A Look at ‘One Froggy Evening’
Movie • 2004
Himself (archive footage)
Ducktators
Movie • 1997
Self
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition
Movie • 1994
Self
Innerspace
Movie • 1987
Supermarket Customer
The Pogo Special Birthday Special
Movie • 1969
Porky Pine / Bun Rab / Basil the Butterfly
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
Movie • 2022
Self (archive footage)
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story
Movie • 1999
Himself
Chuck Amuck: The Movie
Movie • 1991
Himself
Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices
Movie • 2008
Himself (archive footage)
Tex Avery: King of Cartoons
Movie • 1988
Himself
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
Movie • 2000
Self
Portrait of Tex Avery
Movie • 1988
Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
Movie • 1986
Self
Gremlins
Movie • 1984
Mr. Jones
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
Movie • 1988
Self
The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo
Movie • 2002
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace
Movie • 2014
Himself (archive footage)
A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade
Movie • 2002
Himself
Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
Movie • 2012
Himself (Archive Footage)
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
Movie • 2003
Himself
The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet
Movie • 2011
Self (archive footage)
Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!
Movie • 2005
Himself
Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery
Movie • 2004
Self
Cartoons Go To War
Movie • 1996
Himself
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Movie • 2012
Self
Matlock
TV • 1986
Magician #1
Curiosity Shop
TV • 1971
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
Mark Twain
TV • 2002
self
Camera Three
TV
Self