Chuck Jones

Animator, TV Program Creator

1912 – 2002

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Who was Chuck Jones?

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. He directed many classic animated cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pepé Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner characters.

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.

Jones' work has been nominated for an Academy Award eight times, winning three of those times for For Scent-imental Reasons, So Much for So Little, and The Dot and the Line. He received an Honorary Academy Award in 1996 for his work in the animation industry. Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Productions.

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Born
Sep 21, 1912
Spokane
Also known as
  • Charles Martin Jones
  • The Father of Contemporary Animation
  • C. Jones
  • Mister Jones
  • Charles Jones
  • Charles M. Jones
  • Mister Chuck Jones
  • Chas. Jones
  • Chuck Jones Esq
  • M. Charl Jones
Spouses
Children
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Chouinard Art Institute
Lived in
  • Spokane
Died
Feb 22, 2002
Corona del Mar

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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