Chuck Jones Filmography

The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

Actors: Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: Directed by Iwerks' granddaughter, this documentary seeks to highlight the cinematic accomplishments of Ub Iwerks, a forgotten genius overshadowed by the towering presence of Walt Disney. The details include his early life in Missouri, his teaming up with Disney, and the creation of his most Read More

Conversations with: Chuck Jones

Mrs. Doubtfire

Crew: Animator

Actors: Robin Williams, Sally Field, Pierce Brosnan, Harvey Fierstein, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: Robin Williams learns that keeping in touch with his children can be a drag in this hit comedy. Daniel Hillard (Williams) is an eccentric actor who specializes in dubbing voices for cartoon characters. Daniel is a kind man and a loving father, but he's a poor disciplinarian and a shaky role model. Read More

The Magical World of Chuck Jones

Actors: Steven Spielberg, Whoopi Goldberg, Ron Howard, Matt Groening, Leonard Maltin

Synopsis: This colorful, fast-paced documentary pays tribute to animator Chuck Jones on his eightieth birthday. Amidst many clips from his most famous cartoons, major stars and Hollywood figures ranging from Steven Spielburg to Ron Howard to composer Danny Elfman to film historian/critic Leonard Maltin to Read More

Stay Tuned

Crew: Animator

Actors: John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones, David Tom, Heather McComb

Synopsis: John Ritter and Pam Dawber star as Roy and Helen Knable, a suburban American couple having marital problems. Roy has become a couch potato, and a resentful Helen wants him to ditch the remote. When the demonic Spike (Jeffrey Jones) offers Roy a deal on the ultimate satellite TV system, Roy doesn't Read More

Chuck Amuck: The Movie

Synopsis: The legendary animator and cartoon director Chuck Jones is profiled and discussed. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Crew: Animator

Actors: Zach Galligan, Phoebe Cates, John Glover, Robert Prosky, Robert Picardo

Synopsis: Where the original Gremlins was a horror film spiked with comedy, Gremlins 2: The New Batch is essentially a black comedy, with a couple of horrifying touches. As the film starts, the fantastical trinket shop in Chinatown, which sold the Mogwai in the first film, is demolished by a crazed Read More

Return of the Killer Tomatoes!

Actors: Anthony Starke, George Clooney, Karen Mistal, Steve Lundquist, John Astin

Synopsis: It has been 25 years since the last Killer Tomato has been squished into sauce. To this day the tasty red fruit are banned, and some folks fall in to paroxysms of fear at the mention of tomatoes. Still the general public has been lulled into believing that they are finally safe from the Read More

Innerspace

Actors: Dennis Quaid, Martin Short, Meg Ryan, Kevin McCarthy, Fiona Lewis

Synopsis: Director Joe Dante infuses this science fiction comedy with the visual razzle-dazzle and manic, goofball performances typical of his cartoon-inspired sensibilities. Navy test pilot Lt. Tuck Pendleton (Dennis Quaid) has volunteered for a highly dangerous medical experiment. A submersible craft Read More

Gremlins

Actors: Zach Galligan, Hoyt Axton, Frances Lee McCain, Phoebe Cates, Polly Holliday

Synopsis: "Don't expose him to bright light. Don't ever get him wet. And don't ever, ever feed him after midnight." This sage advice is ignored midway through Gremlins, with devastating results. This comic Joe Dante effort is set in a Norman Rockwell-esque small town at Christmastime. Seeking a unique gift Read More

Alvin & the Chipmunks: A Chipmunk Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Ross Bagdasarian, Jr., Janice Karman, Shepard Menken, June Foray, Frank Welker, R.J. Williams

Synopsis: Several years after the death of novelty album recording artist Ross Bagdasarian, his son Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. brought his father's most popular creation, Alvin and the Chipmunks, back to life with a record album called Chipmunk Punk (1980). The resurgence in popularity of the high-pitched Read More

The Looney Looney Looney Bugs Bunny Movie

Crew: Director

Actors: Mel Blanc, June Foray, Frank Nelson, Frank Welker, Stan Freberg

Synopsis: New bits of animation link together this compilation of Friz Freleng-directed Warner Bros. cartoons, which includes the Oscar-winning Knighty Knight Bugs. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All over

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Unlike most other Bugs Bunny TV specials, Bugs Bunny's Bustin' Out All Over eschews footage from older cartoons, offering instead three brand-new animated shorts. In flashback, Bugs recalls his first meeting with Elmer Fudd, when both were infants. Then he remembers a momentous confrontation with Read More

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales

Crew: Director

Synopsis: "A Christmas Carol" and "Twas the Night Before Christmas" are the two tales spun by Bugs and his fellow 'toons in this animated special. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: From his distinguished retirement in a carrot-filled mansion in Beverly Hills, Bugs Bunny (in new animation) introduces the stories of dozens of cartoon adventures created during the Chuck Jones tenure (1939-62) at Warner Brothers' animation department. The new animation contains many in-jokes and Read More

Bugs Bunny in King Arthur's Court

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The witty 'toon rabbit finds himself in medieval times in this animated spoof of Mark Twain's classic tale. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Yankee Doodle Cricket

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: In this film, historical events are given a slightly different spin when it is revealed that a group of animals were responsible for writing the patriotic tune "Yankee Doodle Dandy," assisting Thomas Jefferson with the writing of the Declaration of Independence, and helping out Paul Revere in his Read More

Bugs and Daffy's Carnival of the Animals

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Combining classic music with classic animated characters this feature from animator/director Chuck Jones stars Bugs Bunny and pal Daffy Duck. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The White Seal

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Based on the Rudyard Kipling story, this film follows the story of a young white seal who grows up to become the savior of the local seal population when it is threatened by seal hunters. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi was one of several animated TV specials based on the works of Rudyard Kipling, and produced and directed by Chuck Jones. The title character is a courageous mongoose, the unofficial pet of a British family living in India. Rikki-Tikki-Tavi has appointed himself protector of the Read More

A Cricket in Times Square

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Chester, a plucky little cricket with the gift of making beautiful music leaves his country home to find fortune in the Big Apple, instead he finds himself overwhelmed by the dangerous bustle and hub-ub around him. Eventually, he teams up with a mouse, a boy and a cat to save the kindly owner of a Read More

Mowgli's Brothers

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Animator Chuck Jones helmed this tale, adapted from the work of Rudyard Kipling, of a boy raised by wolves. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

A Very Merry Cricket

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A sequel to "A Cricket in Times Square," in this feature a musical cricket returns to his New York City home and his friends, a cat and a mouse, to discover the meaning of Christmas. ~ Iotis Erlewine, All Movie Guide Read More

A Christmas Carol

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Melvyn Hayes, Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones

Synopsis: This well-animated version of Dickens' classic Christmas story stays quite faithful to its source as it chronicles the painful lesson learned by a bitter old miser whose money lust alienates him from humanity. His lesson comes in the form of ghostly intervention from a trio of spirits who force Read More

Dr. Seuss: Horton Hears a Who!

Crew: Director, Producer

Synopsis: Horton the elephant comes to the rescue again in this video. Horton, with his sensitive hearing, is the only person who can hear the pleas for help from the microscopic world of the Whos, a world so tiny that it fits on a speck of dust. Horton's friends can't comprehend that there are living Read More

The Adventures of Milo in the Phantom Tollbooth

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This animated children's adventure features the vocal talents of some of Hollywood's greatest voice actors as it mixes live-action and animation to tell the story of a young boy who sneaks into a mysterious toll booth and ends up in the Land of Wisdom. Voices are provided by Mel Blanc, Hans Conried Read More

The Phantom Tollbooth

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Actors: Butch Patrick, Mel Blanc, Daws Butler, Candy Candido, Hans Conried

Synopsis: Master animator Chuck Jones has created this full length fantasy, his first since being name director of MGM's animation department. A young boy (Butch Patrick) is bored with his life in San Francisco and finds himself in a fantasy land where letters and numbers are at war with each other. He Read More

The Pogo's Special Birthday Special

Crew: Director

Synopsis: This animated outing from Chuck Jones will appeal to children and adults. Featuring characters from comic artist Walt Kelly's long-running strip, it offers slightly twisted versions of how many American holidays came to be. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Bear That Wasn't

Crew: Director

Cannery Rodent

Crew: Director

Cat and Duplicat

Crew: Director

Duel Personality

Crew: Director

Jerry Jerry Quite Contrary

Crew: Director

Love Me, Love My Mouse

Crew: Director

The Dot and the Line

Crew: Director

Synopsis: Chuck Jones directs this Academy Award-winning cartoon detailing the unrequited love that the line has for the dot, and the heartbreak that results due to the dot's feelings for the lively squiggle. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

Haunted Mouse

Crew: Director

The Cat's Me-Ouch

Crew: Director

Bad Day at Cat Rock

Crew: Director

The Brothers Carry-Mouse-Off

Crew: Director

Tom-Ic Energy

Crew: Director

Year of the Mouse

Crew: Director

Tom Thump

Crew: Director

I'm Just Wild About Jerry

Crew: Director

Of Feline Bondage

Crew: Director

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Crew: Director

Actors: Boris Karloff

Synopsis: Chuck Jones' animated version of the classic Dr. Seuss book How the Grinch Stole Christmas originally aired on television in 1966 and has since become a holiday family favorite. Voiced by Boris Karloff (who also narrates), the Grinch lives on top of a hill overlooking Whoville with his dog, Max. Read More

Much Ado About Mousing

Crew: Director

Is There a Doctor in the Mouse?

Crew: Director

The Cat Above, the Mouse Below

Crew: Director

Unshrinkable Jerry Mouse

Crew: Director

Snowbody Loves Me

Crew: Director

War and Pieces

Crew: Director

Hare-Breadth Hurry

Crew: Director

To Beep or Not to Beep

Crew: Director

I Was a Teenage Thumb

Crew: Director

Now Hear This

Crew: Director

Penthouse Mouse

Crew: Director

Woolen Under Where

Crew: Director

Transylvania 6-5000

Crew: Director

Synopsis: En route to Pittsburgh, Bugs Bunny makes a "wrong toin" and winds up in Transylvania, where accepts the hospitality of sinister vampire Count Bloodcount, who transforms into a bat whenever Bugs says "Abracadabra". Bugs never notices this metamorphosis because he always manages to reverse the spell Read More

Gay Purr-ee

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Judy Garland, Robert Goulet, Red Buttons, Hermione Gingold, Paul H. Frees, Morey Amsterdam

Synopsis: In the wake of the success of Disney's "101 Dalmatians," Warner Brothers has come up with a story about cats called "Gay Purr-ee." This song-filled adventure begins with Mewsette, a rural femme feline longing for the exciting life in Paris. She is kidnapped by some criminal cats. Things look bad Read More

Zoom at the Top

Crew: Director

Louvre Come Back to Me

Crew: Director

Lickety Splat

Crew: Director

The Mouse on 57th Street

Crew: Director

Zip 'n Snort

Crew: Director

Nelly's Folly

Crew: Director

The Abominable Snow Rabbit

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The wrong turn occurred in East St. Louis rather than Alburquerque, but the result is the same: en route to Palm Springs, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck end up instead in the snow-capped Himalayas. Before long, Daffy has run into an abominable snowman named Hugo. The dopey Hugo insists upon calling Read More

Beep Prepared

Crew: Director

Compressed Hare

Crew: Director

Rabbit's Feat

Crew: Director

Ready, Woolen and Able

Crew: Director

Who Scent You?

Crew: Director

Fastest with the Mostest

Crew: Director

High Note

Crew: Director

Hopalong Casualty

Crew: Director

Baton Bunny

Crew: Director

Hot Rod and Reel

Crew: Director

Wild About Hurry

Crew: Director

Hook, Line and Stinker

Crew: Director

Hare-Way to the Stars

Crew: Director

Cat Feud

Crew: Director

To Itch His Own

Crew: Director

Robin Hood Daffy

Crew: Director

Hip-Hip Hurry

Crew: Director

Whoa, Be Gone

Crew: Director

Steal Wool

Crew: Director

Boyhood Daze

Crew: Director

Ali Baba Bunny

Crew: Director

Synopsis: After taking that infamous "wrong toin" at Albuqerque, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck wind up in Bagdad instead of Pismo Beach. There they come upon a treasure cave guarded by a scimitar-wielding giant ("Hassan chop!"), but this doesn't stop Daffy from trying to plunder the cave's limitless supply of Read More

Zoom and Bored

Crew: Director

What's Opera, Doc?

Crew: Director

Synopsis: One of the most beloved of all Warner Brothers cartoons, What's Opera Doc? re-imagines the Elmer Fudd versus Bugs Bunny conflict as a German opera, complete with expressionist sets, tragic romance, and a majestic chorus of "Kill the wabbit!" Director Chuck Jones and writer Michael Maltese combine Read More

Touche and Go

Crew: Director

Go Fly a Kit

Crew: Director

Scrambled Aches

Crew: Director

Rocket Bye Baby

Crew: Director

Heaven Scent

Crew: Director

Gee Whiz-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z-Z

Crew: Director

Barbary Coast Bunny

Crew: Director

Broom-Stick Bunny

Crew: Director

Deduce, You Say

Crew: Director

Rocket Squad

Crew: Director

Bugs' Bonnets

Crew: Director

Synopsis: The premise of this cartoon is established right at the beginning: "It's a well known psychological fact that people's behavior is strongly affected by the way they dress. Even a change of hats will usually bring certain changes." Sure enough, when peace-loving Elmer Fudd dons a hunter's hat, his Read More

To Hare is Human

Crew: Director

There They Go-Go-Go!

Crew: Director

Jumpin' Jupiter

Crew: Director

Knight-Mare Hare

Crew: Director

One Froggy Evening

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Director

Synopsis: Another classic cartoon from director Chuck Jones, this hilarious Merrie Melodies short introduces the singing, dancing amphibian Michigan J. Frog (later to become the official symbol of the Warner Brothers television network.) The frog is initially discovered by a fairly average man, who finds a Read More

Beanstalk Bunny