Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones.

Chuck Jones born on September 21st 1912 and died on February 22nd 2002, was an animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer and director of animated films, most memorably for Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoon studio. He directed many of the classic short animated cartoon's starting Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road runner and Wile E. Coyote, Sylvester, Pepe Le Pew and a slew of other Warner characters. Three of these shorts were later induced 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 ended at the Warner Bros. in 1962 he began to work for Metro-Godwyn-Mayer including a new series of Tom and Jerry shorts. He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

In Chuck Jones's time his produced many films and animated cartoon's the most famous ones were:

Tom and Jerry
Bugs Bunny
Daffy Duck and many more.

Through the 1980's and 1990's, Chuck Jones was painting cartoon and parody art, sold through animation galleries by his daughters company, Linda Jones Enterprises. Chuck Jones was the creative consultant and character designer for two Raggedy Ann animated specials and the first alvin and the chipmunks Christmas special "a chipmunk Christmas". He also created new characters for the internet based on his new character, Thomas Timberwolf   . He made a cameo appearance in the 1984 films Gremlins and directed the Buggy Bunny/Daffy Duck animated sequences that bookend Gremlins 2: The New Batch (1990). Chuck Jones also directed animated sequences various features such as a lengthy sequence in the 1992 film Stay Tuned.