Michael Maltese
Actor
Biography
Michael Maltese (February 6, 1908 – February 22, 1981) was an American story man for classic animated cartoon shorts. He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of Merrie Melodies cartoons with director Chuck Jones. This collaboration produced many highly acclaimed animated shorts, including 4 of the top 5 "greatest cartoons" as judged by 1000 animation professionals; "What's Opera, Doc?" tops this list as the best animated short of all time.
[biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Filmography
The Ducktators
as Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited) 1942
Tortoise Wins by a Hare
as Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited) 1943
Wackiki Wabbit
as Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited) 1943
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
as Dog (voice) (uncredited) 1947
Little Beau Pepé
as Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited) 1952
The Aristo-Cat
as Hubie (voice) 1943
Rumors
as Soldier (voice) 1943
We, the Animals - Squeak!
as Leader Mouse (voice) 1941