Chuck Jones
American animator and filmmaker (1912-2002) · United States · Directors · Died at 89
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Something wrong?He gave Wile E. Coyote his doomed precision and Bugs Bunny his sharpest edge. The director behind What's Opera, Doc? and Duck Amuck turned seven-minute cartoons into tightly wound masterpieces that animation professionals still call the greatest ever made.
A life in dates
Mark TwainSeries, 20022001
Timber WolfSeries, Writer, Creator1996Academy Honorary AwardAwardGreat DrivesSeries1989“I don’t mind people admiring me if they want to but I don’t think it’s very logical. It’s not like I was St. George knocking off some dumb dragon or anything like that.”In their words22 October 1989Orange County Register, October 22, 19891988
Daffy Duck's QuackbustersFilm, Director1986
MatlockSeries, Magician #11984
GremlinsFilm, Mr. Jones1983
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic IslandFilm, Director1982“A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.”In their wordsJohn Lewell, "The Art of Chuck Jones: John Lewell Interviews the Veteran Hollywood Animator [1982]," in Animation - Art and Industry, ed.1979
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas TalesFilm, Director, Writer1974Inkpot AwardAwardWinsor McCay AwardAward1971“Animation in itself is an art form, and that's the point I think always needs clarification.”In their wordsJoe Adamson, "Witty Birds and Well-Drawn Cats: An Interview with Chuck Jones [1971]", in Chuck Jones: conversations, ed. Chuck Jones andCuriosity ShopSeries, 1971Creator, Producer1970
Horton Hears a Who!Film, Director, Producer1967
OmnibusSeries1966Academy Award for Best Animated Short FilmAward
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!Film, 1966Director, Producer1962
Gay Purr-eeFilm, Writer1957
Ali Baba BunnyFilm, Director1953
The OscarsSeries
Bully for BugsFilm, 1953Director1952
Beep, BeepFilm, Director1950
8 Ball BunnyFilm, Director1948
Haredevil HareFilm, Director1946
Hair-Raising HareFilm, Director1940
Tom & JerrySeries, Creator
Tom and Jerry (1940-1967)Series, 1940Creator
You Ought to Be in PicturesFilm, 1940Guy Running Out at Super Speed (archive footage) (uncredited)1929
Looney TunesSeries, Director, WriterEditions: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection1912Born21 September 1912Also in Deutsch
Photos 8
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In their own words 9
, I don’t mind people admiring me if they want to but I don’t think it’s very logical. It’s not like I was St. George knocking off some dumb dragon or anything like that.
A comedian is not a person who opens a funny door - he's the person who opens a door funny.
Animation in itself is an art form, and that's the point I think always needs clarification.
Filmography 40
DQDaffy Duck's Quackbusters
INInnerspaceGRGremlinsDIDaffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
BTBugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
TMThe Bugs Bunny/Road Runner MovieBTBugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
THThe Cat in the Hat
ACA Christmas Carol
TTThe Phantom TollboothHWHorton Hears a Who!HCHow the Grinch Stole Christmas!
TRTransylvania 6-5000GEGay Purr-ee
RDRobin Hood Daffy
HSHare-Way to the Stars
WDWhat's Opera, Doc?ABAli Baba Bunny
OEOne Froggy Evening
DADuck Amuck
DCDuck Dodgers in the 24½th CenturyBBBully for Bugs
DDDuck! Rabbit, Duck!
RSRabbit Seasoning
FKFeed the Kitty
WHWater, Water Every HareBBBeep, Beep
OROperation: Rabbit
RFRabbit Fire
RSRabbit of Seville
TPThe Scarlet PumpernickelBB8 Ball Bunny
FOFast and Furry-ous
LHLong-Haired Hare
FRFor Scent-imental Reasons
SCScaredy CatHHHaredevil HareHHHair-Raising Hare
THThe Dover Boys at Pimento University or The Rivals of Roquefort HallYPYou Ought to Be in Pictures489 credits on file
Television 14
MTMark TwainTWTimber WolfMAMatlockOMOmnibusTOThe Oscars
LCLooney Tunes: Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
TATom and Jerry The Golden Era AnthologyTJTom & JerryTJTom and Jerry (1940-1967)
TATom and Jerry: The Golden Era Anthology (1940-1958)LTLooney Tunes
CTCamera ThreeAwards
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About this person
Jones started in 1933 at Warner Bros.' Termite Terrace studio alongside Tex Avery and Friz Freleng, learning the craft that would define American animation. During World War II he directed the Private Snafu military training shorts, then spent decades refining the Looney Tunes roster into something faster and stranger than anyone expected. After Warner Bros. ended that run in 1962, he launched Sib Tower 12 Productions and made Tom and Jerry shorts for MGM, then directed the 1966 television adaptation of Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas!. He won an Oscar for The Dot and the Line in 1966 and received an honorary Academy Award in 1996. When animation professionals ranked the fifty greatest cartoons in 1994, ten were his - with What's Opera, Doc? at the top.
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