Chuck Jones
Channel: all the knowledge of the universe PRINCIPIA
Date: 2021-12-10

Chuck Jones, by Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7672 / CC BY SA 3.0

#1912_births
#2002_deaths
#Animators_from_Washington_(state)
#American_animated_film_producers
#American_comics_artists
#Animation_screenwriters
#Artists_from_Los_Angeles
#Artists_from_Spokane,_Washington
#Directors_of_Best_Animated_Short_Academy_Award_winners
#Film_directors_from_Washington_(state)
Charles Martin Jones （September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002） was an American animator, voice actor, and painter, best known for his work with Warner Bros.
Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of shorts.
He wrote, produced, and/or directed many classic Animated Cartoon shorts starring Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Pepé Le Pew, and Porky Pig, among others.
Jones started his career in 1933 alongside Tex Avery, Friz Freleng, Bob Clampett, and Robert McKimson at the Leon Schlesinger Production's Termite Terrace studio, where they created and developed the Looney Tunes characters.
During the Second World War, Jones directed many of the Private Snafu （1943-1946） shorts which were shown to members of the United States military.
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 （1963-1967） as well as the television adaptations of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! （1966） and Horton Hears a Who! （1970）.
He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Enterprises, where he directed and produced the film adaptation of Norton Juster's The Phantom Tollbooth （1970）.
Jones' work along with the other animators was showcased in the documentary, Bugs Bunny: Superstar （1975）.
Jones directed the first feature-length animated Looney Tunes compilation film, The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie （1979）.
In 1990 he wrote his memoir, Chuck Amuck: The Life and Times of an Animated Cartoonist, which was made into a documentary film,...