ABOUTWHO WAS CHUCK JONES?

An artistic young boy who loved to draw
An animator, screenwriter, producer, and director of over three hundred cartoons
The beloved creator of some of the most classic cartoons of all time

Whats Up, Doc? Find out in this lively biography of the most celebrated director in animation history!

Charles Martin Chuck Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of many classic animated cartoon shorts. They starred Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, Pep Le Pew, Porky Pig and a slew of other Warner Brothers characters. When he moved on to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, his work includes a series of Tom and Jerry shorts as well as the television adaptation of Dr. Seusss How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

Jones was nominated for eight Academy Awards, won three, and received an honorary Oscar for his work in the animation industry. His career spanned almost seventy years, during which he made over 250 animated films, includingWhats Opera, Doc?, a classic Bugs Bunny/Elmer Fudd short that is considered to be one of the greatest cartoons of all time.