Chuck Jones

Known for Directing

Details

Birthday: September 21, 1912

Deathday: February 22, 2002

Place of birth: Spokane, Washington, USA

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.

Actor

2022

The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox

2020

Bugs Bunny's 80th What's Up, Doc-umentary!

2014

That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace

2012

Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul

2012

King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution

2011

The Great Dictator: The Clown Turns Prophet

2009

Chuck Jones: Memories of Childhood

2008

Mel Blanc: The Man of a Thousand Voices

2005

Behind the Tunes: Looney Tunes Go to War!

2004

It Hopped One Night: A Look at ‘One Froggy Evening’

2004

Behind the Tunes: A Conversation with Tex Avery

2003

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes

2002

Mark Twain

2002

The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo

2002

A Chuck Jones Tutorial: Tricks of the Cartoon Trade

2000

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

1999

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

1997

Ducktators

1996

Cartoons Go To War

1994

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Special Edition

1992

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

1991

Chuck Amuck: The Movie

1988

Tex Avery: King of Cartoons

1988

Portrait of Tex Avery

1988

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town

1987

Innerspace

1986

Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary

1984

Gremlins

1970

Horton Hears a Who!

1969

The Pogo Special Birthday Special

1940

You Ought to Be in Pictures

Director

2020

Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection

2014

A Looney Tunes Thanksgiving

2012

Looney Tunes Mouse Chronicles: The Chuck Jones Collection

2011

Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One

2010

Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

2010

Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl

2010

Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire

2010

The Essential Bugs Bunny

2007

Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5

2003

Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1

1999

Looney Tunes All Stars

1998

Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes

1998

Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth

1997

From Hare to Eternity

1996

Superior Duck

1995

Another Froggy Evening

1994

Chariots of Fur

1991

Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes

1991

The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame

1988

Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

1983

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island

1982

Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales

1982

Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television

1980

Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century

1980

Spaced Out Bunny

1980

Soup or Sonic

1980

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny

1980

The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special

1980

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over

1980

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1979

Freeze Frame

1979

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile

1979

Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet

1978

Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Great Santa Claus Caper

1978

A Connecticut Rabbit in King Arthur's Court

1978

How Bugs Bunny Won the West

1977

Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies

1977

Bugs Bunny in Space

1977

Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special

1976

Carnival of the Animals

1976

Mowgli's Brothers

1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975

The White Seal

1975

Yankee Doodle Cricket

1973

A Very Merry Cricket

1973

Man: The Polluter

1973

A Cricket in Times Square

1970

Horton Hears a Who!

1970

The Phantom Tollbooth

1969

The Pogo Special Birthday Special

1967

The Bear That Wasn't

1967

Cat and Dupli-cat

1967

Cannery Rodent

1966

How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

1966

Jerry, Jerry, Quite Contrary

1966

Love Me, Love My Mouse

1966

Duel Personality

1965

The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics

1965

The Cat's Me-Ouch

1965

Tom-ic Energy

1965

Bad Day at Cat Rock

1965

Zip Zip Hooray!

1965

Roadrunner a Go-Go

1965

Of Feline Bondage

1965

Haunted Mouse

1965

The Year of the Mouse

1965

Ah, Sweet Mouse-Story Of Life

1965

I'm Just Wild About Jerry

1964

The Cat Above and the Mouse Below

1964

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

1964

Much Ado About Mousing

1964

Snowbody Loves Me

1964

The Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

1964

War and Pieces

1963

Transylvania 6-5000

1963

To Beep or Not to Beep

1963

Mad as a Mars Hare

1963

Now Hear This

1963

Hare-Breadth Hurry

1963

Pent-House Mouse

1963

I Was a Teenage Thumb

1962

A Sheep in the Deep

1962

Louvre Come Back to Me!

1962

Zoom at the Top

1962

Martian Through Georgia

1962

Adventures of the Road-Runner

1961

The Abominable Snow Rabbit

1961

Compressed Hare

1961

Nelly's Folly

1961

The Mouse on 57th Street

1961

A Scent of the Matterhorn

1961

Beep Prepared

1961

Lickety-Splat

1961

Zip 'n Snort

1961

Bad-Time Story

1960

Rabbit's Feat

1960

High Note

1960

Hopalong Casualty

1960

Ready, Woolen and Able

1960

Who Scent You?

1960

Fastest with the Mostest

1959

Baton Bunny

1959

Hare-abian Nights

1959

Wild About Hurry

1959

Hot-Rod and Reel!

1958

Hare-Way to the Stars

1958

Robin Hood Daffy

1958

Cat Feud

1958

Hook, Line and Stinker

1958

Whoa, Be-Gone!

1958

To Itch His Own

1958

Hip Hip-Hurry!

1957

What's Opera, Doc?

1957

Boyhood Daze

1957

Drafty, Isn't It?

1957

Steal Wool

1957

Ali Baba Bunny

1957

Scrambled Aches

1957

Zoom and Bored

1957

Go Fly a Kit

1957

Touché and Go

1956

90 Day Wondering

1956

Broom-Stick Bunny

1956

Gee Whiz-z-z-z-z-z-z

1956

Rocket Squad

1956

Barbary-Coast Bunny

1956

Bugs' Bonnets

1956

To Hare Is Human

1956

There They Go-Go-Go!

1956

Heaven Scent

1956

Deduce, You Say

1956

Rocket-bye Baby

1955

One Froggy Evening

1955

A Hitch in Time

1955

Jumpin' Jupiter

1955

Knight-Mare Hare

1955

Rabbit Rampage

1955

Beanstalk Bunny

1955

Ready.. Set.. Zoom!

1955

Guided Muscle

1955

Double or Mutton

1955

Two Scent's Worth

1955

Past Perfumance

1954

Bewitched Bunny

1954

Feline Frame-Up

1954

From A to Z-Z-Z-Z

1954

Baby Buggy Bunny

1954

No Barking

1954

Claws for Alarm

1954

The Cats Bah

1954

Stop! Look! and Hasten!

1954

My Little Duckaroo

1954

Sheep Ahoy

1953

Bully for Bugs

1953

Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century

1953

Duck Amuck

1953

Duck! Rabbit, Duck!

1953

Kiss Me Cat

1953

Lumber Jack-Rabbit

1953

Forward March Hare

1953

Don't Give Up the Sheep

1953

Zipping Along

1953

Much Ado About Nutting

1953

Punch Trunk

1953

Wild Over You

1952

Orange Blossoms for Violet

1952

Rabbit Seasoning

1952

Water, Water Every Hare

1952

Feed the Kitty

1952

The Hasty Hare

1952

Operation: Rabbit

1952

Going! Going! Gosh!

1952

Terrier-Stricken

1952

Little Beau Pepé

1952

Mouse-Warming

1952

Beep, Beep

1951

A Bear for Punishment

1951

Rabbit Fire

1951

Chow Hound

1951

The Wearing of the Grin

1951

Drip-Along Daffy

1951

Bunny Hugged

1951

Cheese Chasers

1951

Scent-imental Romeo

1951

His Hare Raising Tale

1951

A Hound for Trouble

1950

Rabbit of Seville

1950

8 Ball Bunny

1950

Homeless Hare

1950

The Ducksters

1950

The Hypo-Chondri-Cat

1950

The Scarlet Pumpernickel

1950

Dog Gone South

1950

Caveman Inki

1950

Two's a Crowd

1949

Long-Haired Hare

1949

For Scent-imental Reasons

1949

Fast and Furry-ous

1949

Awful Orphan

1949

Rabbit Hood

1949

Mississippi Hare

1949

Bear Feat

1949

So Much for So Little

1949

Frigid Hare

1949

Mouse Wreckers

1949

Often an Orphan

1949

The Bee-Deviled Bruin

1948

My Bunny Lies Over the Sea

1948

Haredevil Hare

1948

Scaredy Cat

1948

Rabbit Punch

1948

Daffy Dilly

1948

You Were Never Duckier

1948

A Feather in His Hare

1948

What's Brewin', Bruin?

1947

A Pest in the House

1947

House Hunting Mice

1947

Inki at the Circus

1947

Little Orphan Airedale

1947

Scent-imental Over You

1946

Hair-Raising Hare

1946

Roughly Squeaking

1946

Hush My Mouse

1946

The Eager Beaver

1946

Quentin Quail

1946

Fair and Worm-er

1945

Hare Tonic

1945

Odor-Able Kitty

1945

Hare Conditioned

1945

In the Aleutians

1945

It's Murder She Says...

1945

No Buddy Atoll

1945

Fresh Airedale

1945

Trap Happy Porky

1945

The Good Egg

1944

Hell-Bent for Election

1944

Gas

1944

Going Home

1944

A Lecture on Camouflage

1944

Outpost

1944

Private Snafu vs. Malaria Mike

1944

Bugs Bunny and the Three Bears

1944

Lost and Foundling

1944

Tom Turk and Daffy

1944

Angel Puss

1944

The Weakly Reporter

1944

From Hand to Mouse

1943

Super-Rabbit

1943

Wackiki Wabbit

1943

Coming!! Snafu

1943

The Infantry Blues

1943

The Aristo-Cat

1943

To Duck.... Or Not to Duck

1943

Spies

1943

The Unbearable Bear

1943

Flop Goes the Weasel

1943

Inki and the Minah Bird

1943

Fin'n Catty

1943

Point Rationing of Foods

1942

Case of the Missing Hare

1942

The Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort Hall

1942

My Favorite Duck

1942

Conrad the Sailor

1942

Porky's Cafe

1942

The Bird Came C.O.D.

1942

The Draft Horse

1942

Dog Tired

1942

Hold the Lion, Please

1942

The Squawkin' Hawk

1942

Fox Pop

1941

Porky's Prize Pony

1941

Elmer's Pet Rabbit

1941

The Brave Little Bat

1941

Sniffles Bells the Cat

1941

Toy Trouble

1941

Porky's Midnight Matinee

1941

Joe Glow, the Firefly

1941

Inki and the Lion

1941

Saddle Silly

1941

Snow Time for Comedy

1941

Porky's Ant

1940

Elmer's Candid Camera

1940

Bedtime for Sniffles

1940

Stage Fright

1940

Good Night Elmer

1940

Ghost Wanted

1940

The Egg Collector

1940

Mighty Hunters

1940

Sniffles Takes a Trip

1940

Tom Thumb in Trouble

1939

Old Glory

1939

Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur

1939

Robin Hood Makes Good

1939

Prest-O Change-O

1939

Dog Gone Modern

1939

Sniffles and the Bookworm

1939

Naughty But Mice

1939

The Curious Puppy

1939

Snowman's Land

1939

Little Brother Rat

1939

The Little Lion Hunter

1939

The Good Egg

1938

The Night Watchman

Writer

2014

A Looney Tunes Thanksgiving

1995

Another Froggy Evening

1980

Spaced Out Bunny

1980

Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special

1980

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over

1979

Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy in the Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile

1979

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

1979

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

1978

Raggedy Ann & Andy: The Great Santa Claus Caper

1976

Mowgli's Brothers

1976

Carnival of the Animals

1975

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

1975

The White Seal

1975

Yankee Doodle Cricket

1973

A Cricket in Times Square

1973

A Very Merry Cricket

1962

Gay Purr-ee

1957

Drafty, Isn't It?

1956

90 Day Wondering

1955

A Hitch in Time

1952

Orange Blossoms for Violet

1949

So Much for So Little

1943

Point Rationing of Foods