Biography
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; "What's Opera, Doc?" tops this list as the best animated short of all time. [biography (excerpted) from Wikipedia]
Known For

Tortoise Wins by a Hare
Various Rabbit Thugs (voice) (uncredited)

You Ought to Be in Pictur...
Studio Guard (uncredited)

Wackiki Wabbit
Fat Castaway (voice) (uncredited)

Rumors
Soldier (voice)

A Hare Grows in Manhattan
Dog (voice) (uncredited)

Little Beau Pepé
Foreign Legion Singer (voice) (uncredited)

The Aristo-Cat
Hubie (voice)

The Ducktators
Mussolini Duck (voice) (uncredited)

A Hound for Trouble
Customer (voice)

We, the Animals - Squeak!
Leader Mouse (voice)