* Animation: Chuck Jones

Animator Chuck Jones, who lived near his Lone Star studio as a boy, remembered his father saying he watched Chaplin shoot a scene more than a hundred times until he was satisfied with it.

Colonel Charles Edward (" Chuck ") Jones ( November 4, 1952 – September 11, 2001 ) was a United States Air Force officer, a computer programmer, and an astronaut in the USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer Program.

Charles Martin " Chuck " Jones ( September 21, 1912 – February 22, 2002 ) was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies shorts for the Warner Bros. Cartoons studio.

He later started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions, which created several one-shot specials, and periodically worked on Looney Tunes related works.

Film historian Leonard Maltin has praised Jones ' work at Warner Bros., MGM and Chuck Jones Productions.

Chuck Jones ' character styles were more controlled and calmed down, while Bob Clampett's were crazy, wacky and insane.

In his autobiography, Chuck Amuck, Jones credits his artistic bent to circumstances surrounding his father, who was an unsuccessful businessman in California in the 1920s.

Chuck Jones joined Leon Schlesinger Productions, the independent studio that produced Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies for Warner Bros., in 1933 as an assistant animator.

' The Outpost ', Private Snafu cartoon directed by Chuck Jones in 1944

Of his versions of Bugs and Daffy, Chuck Jones has said, " Bugs is who we want to be.

MGM closed the animation division in 1970, and Jones once again started his own studio, Chuck Jones Productions.

From 2001-2002 Cartoon Network aired The Chuck Jones Show which features shorts directed by him.

Cartoon Network aired a 20-second segment with black dots tracing Jones ' portrait with the words " We'll miss you-Cartoon Network " fading in on the right-hand side, which aired during a four-hour installment of The Looney Tunes Show that featured nothing but Chuck Jones ' most memorable cartoon shorts.

Jones ' life and legacy were celebrated January 12, 2012 with the official grand opening of The Chuck Jones Experience at Circus Circus Las Vegas.

Animator Milt Gray described this as a smear campaign by Chuck Jones.

Michael Barrier claims that Clampett had given himself too much credit, but also that Jones had had ill feelings towards him ever since their days at Termite Terrace, due to the fact that Bob Clampett was made an animation director before Chuck Jones.

Robert McKimson claimed in an interview that many animators but mostly Clampett contributed to the crazy personality of Bugs, while others like Chuck Jones concentrated more on the more calmed down gags.

* Jones, Chuck ( 1989 ).

* Jones, Chuck ( 1996 ).

* 1942 – Chuck Negron, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ( Three Dog Night )

Snafu, directed by Chuck Jones ), a proto – Snafu does appear, unnamed and in color, in Jones ' cartoon The Draft Horse, released theatrically one year earlier, on May 9, 1942.

* Chuck Taylor ( baseball ) ( Charles Gilbert Taylor, born 1942 ), baseball player

* Chuck Fager ( born 1942 ), American activist, an author, an editor, a publisher, and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends

* 1942 Little Chuck ’ s Adventure

His first major screen role was as Chuck Ramsey in the movie serial version of Captain Midnight ( 1942 ).

" The Dover Boys at Pimento University " or " The Rivals of Roquefort Hall " ( better known as simply The Dover Boys ) is a 1942 Merrie Melodies cartoon produced by Leon Schlesinger Productions and directed by Chuck Jones.

* Chuck Quilty ( 1942 –), peace activist, and co-founder of Voices in the Wilderness in 1996

* The Squawkin ' Hawk ( debut ) ( August 8, 1942 ) ( directed by Chuck Jones )

Charles Eugene Fager ( born 1942 ), known as Chuck Fager, is an American activist, an author, an editor, a publisher and an outspoken and prominent member of the Religious Society of Friends.

For Gleason, he produced a number of titles, among them ( with Bob Wood ) Chuck " Crimebuster " Chandler, who appeared in Boy Comics ( 1942 – 1956 ).

Programs included " Tomorrow's Heroes " with Andrea Speyer, Talk Back with George Putnam, Swinging Decades with host Chuck Cecil, horse racing from Santa Anita Park and Hollywood Park Racetrack and University of Nebraska football. Signing on in 1942 as KPAS, the station became country KXLA three years later.

Will Friedwald has compared Ella Fitzgerald to Chuck Jones directing his Roadrunner cartoon — each uses predetermined formulas in innovative ways.

Duck Amuck is a surreal animated cartoon directed by Chuck Jones and produced by Warner Bros. Cartoons.

Chuck Jones's 1953 cartoon Duck Amuck shows Daffy Duck trapped in a cartoon that an unseen animator repeatedly manipulates.

From 1945 until the original Warner Bros. Cartoons studio closed, Freleng had almost exclusive use of Tweety at the Warner cartoon studio ( much like Yosemite Sam ), with the exception of a brief cameo in No Barking in 1954, directed by Chuck Jones ( that year, Freleng used Pepé Le Pew, a Jones character, for the only time in his career and the only time in a Tweety short, Dog Pounded ).

This Chuck Jones directed cartoon was entitled Hell-Bent for Election, and was produced for the ( third ) reelection campaign of FDR.

* The Scarlet Pumpernickel ( 1950 ), a Chuck Jones cartoon in which Sylvester plays the Basil Rathbone-like villain to Daffy Duck's Errol Flynn-esque hero.

The first short from the newly-formed studio was Hell-Bent for Election ( directed by Warners veteran Chuck Jones ), a cartoon made for the re-election campaign of Franklin D. Roosevelt.

The WB animated TV series The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries and the Looney Tunes cartoon From Hare to Eternity ( which was the last one directed by Chuck Jones ) were both dedicated to his memory.

In addition, in the 1949, Chuck Jones-directed cartoon Mississippi Hare, Bugs Bunny battles with an old, pistol-toting gambler called Colonel Shuffle, one whose role could have easily been portrayed by Sam.

Animator Chuck Jones, of his own admission, got the idea of Witch Hazel from the Disney cartoon Trick or Treat ( 1952 ), which featured a good-natured witch squaring off with Donald Duck.

Inki is the lead character in an animated cartoon series of Warner Bros. Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies short films by animator Chuck Jones.

* Charlie Dog, Chuck Jones ' late 1940s cartoon character

The Frog had no name when the cartoon was made, but Chuck Jones later named him Michigan J. Frog after the original song.

In 1995 Chuck Jones reprised Michigan J. Frog in a cartoon entitled Another Froggy Evening, with Jeff McCarthy providing the Frog's voice.

: Words and Music by Milt Franklyn, Michael Maltese and Chuck Jones ; written for the cartoon but similar to George Olsen's hit song " Varsity Drag " from the musical Good News ( 1927 )

Duck Dodgers first appeared in the 1953 cartoon short Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century, directed by Chuck Jones.

Clampett's colleague Friz Freleng directed a cartoon titled Goldilocks and the Jivin ' Bears in 1944, essentially Coal Black remade with a different fairy tale, and Warner's director Chuck Jones directed a series of shorts starring a prepubescent African hunter named Inki from 1939 to 1950.

The company logo, the Gongman, remains a familiar emblem ( and would be parodied at various times, including an episode of Gilligan's Island and Chuck Jones ' Bugs Bunny cartoon, " Bunny Hugged ").

After Rogers was killed during World War II, Freberg assumed the role of Junyer Bear in Chuck Jones ' Looney Tunes cartoon What's Brewin ', Bruin?