Michael Maltese

Michael Maltese February 6 1908 February 22 1981 was an American story man for classic animated cartoon shorts He is best known for working in the 1950s on a series of Merrie Melodies cartoons with director Chuck Jones This collaboration produced many highly acclaimed animated shorts including 4 of the top 5 greatest cartoons as judged by 1000 animation professionals Whats Opera Doc tops this list as the best animated short of all time biography excerpted from Wikipedia