Chuck Jones life and biography

Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones 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.

Chuck Jones was the most famous director of cartoons for the legendary Warner Brothers animation studios. Along with animators like Tex Avery, Jones developed Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd, Wile E. Coyote, and other wacky cartoon characters. After Warner Brothers closed its animation division in 1962, Jones worked on Tom and Jerry cartoons and many other projects including the hit TV version of the Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966). In the 1980s and 1990s Warners cartoons enjoyed renewed popularity and Jones became a revered guru from animation's first golden age. Jones died in February of 2002 at his home in Corona del Mar, California, where he had been suffering from congestive heart failure.

Jones was given an honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his lifetime of work... One of Jones's more whimsical characters was Michigan J. Frog.

Animated films:

The Night Watchman (1938, his first)
Dog Gone Modern (1939)
Robin Hood Makes Good (1939)
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur (1939)
Naughty But Mice (1939, debuts Sniffles, first Jones-created series character)
Elmer's Candid Camera (1940)
Joe Glow, the Firefly (1941)
The Draft Horse (1942)
The Dover Boys At Pimento University, or The Rivals Of Roquefort Hall (1942)
Fin N' Catty (1943)
The Weakly Reporter (1944)
Angel Puss(1944)
Hell-Bent for Election (Franklin D. Roosevelt campaign film, 1944)
Fresh Airedale (1945)
Fair and Worm-er (1946)
A Pest in the House (1947)
Scaredy Cat (1948)
Long-Haired Hare (1949)
For Scent-imental Reasons (1949)
Fast and Furry-ous (1949)
So Much for So Little (1949, made for Federal Security Agency's Public Health Service)
Rabbit of Seville (1950)
The "Hunting Trilogy": Rabbit Fire (1951), Rabbit Seasoning (1952), and Duck! Rabbit, Duck! (1953)
Feed the Kitty (1952)
Duck Amuck (1953)
Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953)
Bully for Bugs (1953)
Punch Trunk (1953)
Feline Frame-Up (1954)
Sheep Ahoy (1954)
One Froggy Evening (1955)
Double or Mutton (1955)
Heaven Scent (1955)
Rocket-Bye Baby (1956)
What's Opera, Doc? (1957)
Scrambled Aches (1957)
Robin Hood Daffy (1958)
Hook, Line and Stinker (1958)
Hip Hip-Hurry! (1958)
Hot-Rod and Reel! (1959)
Wild About Hurry (1959)
Fastest with the Mostest (1960)
Hopalong Casualty (1960)
High Note (1960)
Ready, Woolen and Able (1960)
Compressed Hare (1961)
Zip 'N Snort (1961)
Lickety-Splat (1961)
Beep Prepared (1961)
Now Hear This (1962)
Zoom at the Top (1962)
A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
Hare-Breadth Hurry (1963)
War and Pieces (1964)
Tom and Jerry (cartoon shorts, 1964–1967)
The Dot and the Line (1965)
The Bear That Wasn't (1967)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (TV special, 1966)
Sesame Street (various cartoon segments, 1969)
The Electric Company (1971)
Horton Hears a Who! (TV special, 1970)
The Phantom Tollbooth (feature film, 1970)
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (TV special, 1975)
Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Great Santa Claus Caper (TV special, 1978)
Raggedy Ann and Andy in The Pumpkin Who Couldn’t Smile (TV special, 1979)
Soup or Sonic (1980)
Chariots of Fur (1994)
Another Froggy Evening (1995)
Superior Duck (1996)
From Hare to Eternity (1997)

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