Chuck Jones (1912-2002)
Chuck Jones is an American animated film, screenwriter, director and producer known for his work of many traditional animation. Charles Martin Jones was born in Spokane, Washington. He moved to California when he was a child, and at age 15, Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles instead. After graduation he worked in several animation studios, and then to 1933, he went to Leon Schlesinger, whose studio produced animated films Warner Bros. (and bought by Warner Bros. in 1944) to operate. The studio worked animation directors Bob Clampett and Tex Avery and help the characters Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Chinese. For vice president in 1938 promoted, directed by Jones first short film projects, the night watchman, animated in the same year. Better known contributions Warner Bros. is a series of short films with Road Runner and Coyote (founded in 1949) Pepe Le Pew (1945 established).When the unit of Warner Bros. Animation has closed its doors in the early 1960s (later), Jones worked Metro Goldwyn Mayer (MGM) for "Tom and Jerry" series and other films such as television special based Dr. Seuss story "How the Grinch ", the first mission in 1966. He went on working in special productions of Warner Bros. from time to time and the moving image of your business, Chuck Jones company.
Jones has a reputation in Hollywood as a political liberal and spiritual. In the early 1940s, helped organize strikes have in the studios of Walt Disney, and the mid-1940s began to write analytical articles on the subject of animation. Jones also offered services director hell for Election (1944), a small film studio United Productions of America (UPA), which supports the re-election of President Franklin Roosevelt.
Three animation Jones received Oscar: For perfume imental Reasons (1949), so much for so little (1949), and Dot and the Line (1965). In 1992, Bugs Bunny short What's Opera, Doc? (1957) was selected by the Library of Congress National Film Registry, only allowed for a small group of US film honor. In 1996, Jones devoted to the members of the management life Guild of America and the Academy received for value "creation of classic cartoons and cartoon characters whose lives brought animated real joy for more than half a century."
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