Chuck Jones

BirthDate BirthPlace	09/20/1912 Spokane, WA

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Directed classic Warner Bros. cartoons such as a Wagner-singing Bugs Bunny in "What's Opera, Doc?" (1957) and Daffy Duck breaking the animated fourth wall in "Duck Amuck" (1953), and in
Animated TV specials include the adaptations How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966), based on the Dr. Seuss book, and Riki-Tiki-Tavi (1975), from the Rudyard Kipling short story.
Among his most well-known one-shot cartoons is "One Froggy Evening" (1955), featuring a singing frog that, 40 years later, was christened Michigan J. Frog and adopted as the symbol of the WB Netw
His 1989 autobiography, Chuck Amuck, features a foreword by fan Steven Spielberg, who used clips from Jones' cartoons in his films, including a sequence from the '53 Daffy Duck short "Duck Dodg
As a child growing up in Los Angeles, watched Charlie Chaplin and Mack Sennett filming their silent movies.
Joined the Warner Bros. animation unit in 1933 and began directing the Merrie Melodies series in 1938.