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Charles Martin Jones (21 September 1912 – 22 February 2002) was an American animator, director, cartoon artist, screenwriter, and producer. He created several Looney Tunes characters, including, Sniffles, Pepé Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, and Hubie and Bertie, and many others. He also changed Daffy Duck from a zany screwball to a narcissistic anti-hero.
On 19 July 2014, the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City opened the exhibit What's Up, Doc? The Animation Art of Chuck Jones, which features some of Jones' artwork over his career.[1]
Jones has his own website he made in 2000.[2]
Looney Works
As a Director
See List of cartoons supervised by Chuck Jones
As a Writer
- So Much for So Little (1949) (with Friz Freleng (uncredited)) (uncredited) N/A
- Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952) (with Friz Freleng) N/A
- A Hitch in Time (1955) N/A
- Two Scent's Worth (1955)
- 90 Day Wondering (1956) (with Michael Maltese) N/A
- Heaven Scent (1956)
- Drafty, Isn't It? (1957) N/A
- Hopalong Casualty (1960)
- Zip 'n Snort (1961)
- Lickety-Splat (1961)
- A Scent of the Matterhorn (1961)
- Beep Prepared (1961) (with John W. Dunn)
- Nelly's Folly (1961) (with David Detiege)
- A Sheep in the Deep (1962)
- Adventures of the Road-Runner (1962) (with John W. Dunn and Michael Maltese) CS
- Zoom at the Top (1962)
- Martian Through Georgia (1962) (with Carl Kohler)
- I Was a Teenage Thumb (1963) (with John W. Dunn)
- Now Hear This (1963) (with John W. Dunn)
- Woolen Under Where (1963)
- To Beep or Not to Beep (1963) (with John W. Dunn)
- Zip Zip Hooray! (1965) (with John W. Dunn (uncredited)) (uncredited)
- Roadrunner a Go-Go (1965) (with John W. Dunn (uncredited)) (uncredited)
- Freeze Frame (1979) (with John W. Dunn (uncredited)) (uncredited)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny (1980)
- Spaced Out Bunny (1980)
- Soup or Sonic (1980)
- Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980) (with Michael Maltese)
- Chariots of Fur (1994) (with Stephen Fossati (uncredited) and Stan Freberg (uncredited))
- Another Froggy Evening (1995) (with Don Arioli, Stephen Fossatti, and Stan Freberg)
- Superior Duck (1996)
- Daffy Duck for President (2004) (book)
As a Producer
- Freeze Frame (1979) (with Hal Geer (uncredited)) (uncredited)
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Bunny (1980)
- Spaced Out Bunny (1980)
- Soup or Sonic (1980)
- Duck Dodgers and the Return of the 24½th Century (1980) (with Mary Roscoe)
- Chariots of Fur (1994) (with Linda Jones Clough)
- Another Froggy Evening (1995) (with Linda Jones Clough and Stephen Fossatti)
- Superior Duck (1996) (with Linda Jones Clough and Stephen Fossatti)
- Pullet Surprise (1997) (with Linda Jones Clough and Stephen Fossatti)
- From Hare to Eternity (1997) (with Linda Jones Clough and Stephen Fossatti)
- Father of the Bird (1997) (with Linda Jones Clough and Stephen Fossatti (co-producer))
Characters Created
Sylvester (Proto)
Trivia
- He appears in the bar scene in Gremlins. A credit for Chuck Jones's title animation appeared in Gremlins 2: The New Batch.
- Jones made a cameo appearance as a caricatured version of himself in the Animaniacs episode "Back in Style", along with Friz Freleng.
- In 2012, the Circus Circus hotel in Las Vegas housed the Chuck Jones Experience exhibit. It is now housed by the Chuck Jones Center for Creativity in Southern California.[3]
Gallery
A young Chuck in front of storyboards for Sniffles and the Bookworm
Chuck with Jim Henson
Chuck at the premiere of A Bug's Life in 1998
Chuck with Mel Blanc and June Foray
A self-caricature of Chuck from Bugs Bunny: Superstar
Chuck with his wife Dorothy (left) and his daughter Linda (middle) holding two Oscar statuettes that he won for "So Much for So Little” and “For Scent-imental Reasons”
Chuck with Boris Karloff at a recording session of How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Chuck with Johnny Burton, Robert McKimson, and Friz Freleng circa 1958
Chuck at the 38th Academy Awards with Elke Sommer (left), Les Goldman (far right), and Don Knotts (between Chuck and Les)
Chuck with his animators Lloyd Vaughan and Ken Harris
Chuck with Matt Groening (middle) and John Lasseter (right).
Chuck (right) with Walt Disney (middle)
Robert McKimson, Chuck Jones, David H. DePatie, Friz Freleng and Bill Orcutt, March 1960
Title Sequence to The Chuck Jones Show, a tribute program on Cartoon Network showcasing his works
Chuck with his grandson, Todd Kausen, and Walt Kelly
Chuck Jones with Daffy Duck
Chuck Jones with Friz Freleng caricatured in Animaniacs.
Chuck with Norman McLaren (left) and Bob Clampett (middle) at the World Retrospective of Animated Cinema, Montreal c. 1967
Chuck with Michael Maltese
Chuck with Ken Harris and Ben Washam
Chuck with Walter Lantz and Friz Freleng
Chuck with Judge Reinhold as Gerald Hopkins in Gremlins