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Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones (September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002) was an American animator, director, cartoon artist, screenwriter, and producer. Until his death in 2002, he created several Looney Tunes characters, including, Sniffles, Pepe Le Pew, Penelope Pussycat, Marvin the Martian, Wile E. Coyote and Road Runner, and Hubie and Bertie, amongst many others.
On July 19, 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's artwork over his career. [1]
Jones has his own website he made in 2000.[2]
Looney Tunes Cartoons directed
See Category:Cartoons directed by Chuck Jones.
Characters created
Trivia
- 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]
- Outliving most of the well-known Warners directors, Jones was the second last Warners director to pass on (having passed away in 2002), followed by Norm McCabe, who was the last surviving Warners director.