Jones, Chuck (1912-2002)

US film animator and cartoon director. He made his name at Warner Bros with seven-minute cartoons starring such characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Sylvester and Tweetie Pie, Wile E Coyote, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Speedy Gonzalez, Pepe LePew, and Roadrunner. Moving to MGM in the 1960s, he made several Tom and Jerry shorts. He made more than 300 films in total, and won four Academy Awards, including one for lifetime achievement in 1996.

Jones was born in Spokane, Washington. He worked as a portrait painter until he entered films as an illustrator for Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney's longtime collaborator, and Walter Lantz, the creator of Woody Woodpecker. When Warner Bros' cartoon unit closed down, Jones codirected the animated features Gay Purree (1962) and The Phantom Tollbooth (1964). He formed his own company in the mid-1960s, producing cartoons for TV. He earned 12 Academy Award nominations for his films For Scent-Imental Reasons (1949), So Much for So Little (1949), and The Dot and the Line (1965).