DownloadThe Portobello Bookshop Gift Guide 2024

Who Was Chuck Jones?

Jim Gigliotti author John Hinderliter illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Putnam Inc

Published:1st Jan '18

Currently unavailable, our supplier has not provided us a restock date

Who Was Chuck Jones? cover

What's Up, Doc? Find out in this lively biography of the most celebrated director in animation

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

ISBN: 9780448488578

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown