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Nickname:	Chuck / The Father of Contemporary Animation
Known for:	How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, What's Opera, Doc?, Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century
Birth name:	Charles Martin Jones
Birthday:	21 September 1912, Spokane, Washington, USA

Close friend of Theodor (Dr. Seuss- The Cat in the Hat fame) Geisel. Father of Linda Jones Clough At 85, Chuck signed a long term contract with Warner Bros. to supervise the animation department. His thoughts on the contract were "At 85 you can only think ahead for the next 50 years or so." His cartoons What's Opera, Doc?, Duck Amuck and more recently One Froggy Evening have been accepted into the US National Film Registry. Has three grandchildren; three step-grandchildren and six great-grandchildren, a step-son and step-daughter. Interviewed in Peter Bogdanovich's "Who the Devil Made It: Conversations With Robert Aldrich, George Cukor, Allan Dwan, Howard Hawks, Alfred Hitchcock, Chuck Jones, Fritz Lang, Joseph H. Lewis, Sidney Lumet, Leo McCarey, Otto Preminger, Don Siegel, Josef von Sternberg, Frank Tashlin, Edgar G. Ulmer, Raoul Walsh". NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997

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