Chuck Jones

"One of the grand masters of animated cartoons, Jones can get laughs out of his characters' tiniest gestures: a wriggle of Bugs Bunny's eyebrows, a snap of Daffy Duck's bill. Those nuances are among his trademarks, and though he worked for years in the Warner Bros. 'house style,' his cartoons were always distinctively his own." - Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia, 1995
Chuck Jones
Director / Producer / Screenwriter
(1912-2002) Born September 21, Spokane, Washington, USA

Key Production Country: USA
Key Genres: Animation, Short Film, Comedy, Children's/Family, Adventure, Fantasy Comedy
Key Collaborators: Michael Maltese (Screenwriter), Carl W. Stalling (Composer), Mel Blanc (Voice), Edward Selzer (Producer), Treg Brown (Editor), Arthur Q. Bryan (Voice), Milt Franklyn (Composer)

“Excellent American animator who, with Friz Freleng and Robert McKimpson, created in the Warner Brothers studios the famous anthropomorphic cartoon characters of Bugs Bunny, Tweetie Pie, Daffy Duck, Speedy Gonzalez, Road Runner, and Coyote with their attendant gags (often brilliant) and stylized violence (less objectionable than in Tom and Jerry).” - Georges Sadoul (Dictionary of Film Makers, 1972)
"As one of the chief animators and directors during the golden age of Warner Bros. animation, Chuck Jones forged a legacy as being the creator of some of the funniest and most beautifully designed cartoons ever produced by the Hollywood studio system. Alongside Tex Avery, Bob Clampett and Friz Freleng, Jones spearheaded the innovative and wildly popular cartoons that populated the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies worlds. With such iconic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and Elmer Fudd, the cartoons were irreverent comedies that broke new ground and rankled future generations, which often sought to censor re-airings on television for violence and racial stereotypes." - Shawn Dwyer (Turner Classic Movies)
Duck Amuck
Duck Amuck (1953)
"His cartoons are noted for their speed, crazed action, and dynamic verve.. Widely recognized for his contributions to the art of animation, he was honoured during the 70s and 80s with retrospectives of his work and showered with life achievement awards in the US and in international film festivals." - The Film Encyclopedia, 2012
"Many of Jones’s animated films are recognized as classics of the form, including Feed the Kitty (1952), about an unusual paternal relationship between a bulldog and a kitten; Duck Amuck (1953), a tour de force of personality animation starring Daffy Duck as the victim of the creative whims of an unseen animator; One Froggy Evening (1955), a parable of greed involving a singing frog; and What’s Opera, Doc? (1957), a brilliant compression of Richard Wagner’s 14-hour The Ring of the Nibelung into six minutes… To the general public, Chuck Jones’s name is as synonymous with animation as that of Walt Disney. In a career spanning more than 60 years, Jones extended the perimeters of the indigenous American art form known as “character,” or “personality,” animation." - Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2021
"Bugs Bunny, Chuck Jones noted, is who everyone would like to be, and Daffy Duck is who everyone mostly is. The cool, confident rabbit, and the cowardly, "desthpicable" duck define the parameters of Jones's animated universe… Jones's range of cultural reference was wide and enriched his work, in horror movies such as Hair-Raising Hare (1946); to swashbucklers like Rabbit Hood (1949); to the use of classical music such as Gioachino Antonio Rossini in Rabbit of Seville (1950)." - Philip Kemp (501 Movie Directors, 2007)
Selected Filmography
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Chuck Jones / Fan Club
Gary Meyer, Danny Peary, Adam Nayman, Kim Newman, Alexander Horwath, Michael Phillips, Pete Docter, George Robinson, Matt Zoller Seitz, Roger Ebert, Adrian Danks.
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