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...Jones joined the cheerful gang of animator-anarchists at Termite Terrace, as the Warner Bros. cartoonists called their dilapidated digs. He directed his first short, The Night Watchman, in 1938. But it took a wartime assignment to bring out the comic fatalist in Jones. With Theodor (Dr. Seuss) Geisel, he hatched the Private Snafu shorts--irreverent sketches of an Army recruit whose laziness and general bad attitude forever threaten to hand victory to Hitler and Tojo. By war's end, Jones was infusing the brisk sauciness of these cartoons into his civilian work...
...teacher, had plenty of career left. He reunited with Geisel and directed two Dr. Seuss half-hours, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Horton Hears a Who! He wrote two delightful memoirs, Chuck Amuck and Chuck Reducks. And for a 1985 Museum of Modern Art tribute to Warner Bros. animation, he drew new Bugses and Daffys on the Manhattan museum's walls--a tacit acknowledgment from the world of high culture that this cartoon man was a significant creator of modern...
DIED. CHUCK JONES, 89, Oscar-winning animator who directed classic Warner Bros. cartoons; in Corona del Mar, Calif. (see Appreciation, page...
...DIED. CHARLES ("CHUCK") JONES, 89, animation director who helped bring to life some of the best-loved cartoon characters from Warner Bros.' Looney Tunes series, including Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny; in Corona del Mar, California. In a career that spanned six decades, Jones made more than 300 animated films, winning two Oscars?one for Best Director in 1965 and an honorary lifetime achievement award in 1996. His autobiography Chuck Amuck was published in 1989. DIED. JOHN THAW, 60, adored by millions of viewers for his portrayal of the curmudgeonly sleuth Inspector Morse on ITV's critically acclaimed eponymous television...