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Also Known As Charles Martin Jones
Born September 21, 1912 • Spokane • Washington
Died February 22, 2002 (aged 89) • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award (1996) • Academy Award (1966)

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Chuck Jones
The Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote
Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner
Director who shaped Looney Tunes
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Friz Freleng
American animator
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Frank Tashlin
American cartoonist, writer, and director
Creator of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck
Walt Disney
American film producer
Hal Roach
Hal Roach
American director and producer
Lantz, Walter
Walter Lantz
American animator
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Max Fleischer
American animator
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Robert Clampett
American director
Miyazaki Hayao
Miyazaki Hayao
Japanese director
George Pal
George Pal
Hungarian-born animator, director, and producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Film director Robert Altman stands with arms crossed in a yellow jacket and white cap among crew and equipment on the set of Thieves Like Us.
Robert Altman
American film director
Paul Newman
Paul Newman
American actor and philanthropist
Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.
Robert Redford
American actor and director
Sidney Poitier smiling and wearing a light gray suit, blue shirt, and patterned tie at an event.
Sidney Poitier
Bahamanian American actor
Spike Lee wearing a suit, tie, and tortoiseshell glasses at the 2007 Primetime Creative Arts Emmy Awards in Los Angeles.
Spike Lee
American filmmaker
Gene Kelly as Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain, joyfully hanging from a lamppost with an umbrella during a nighttime rainstorm on a city street.
Gene Kelly
American actor, dancer, and director
Kirk Douglas
Kirk Douglas
American actor and producer
Lillian Gish
Lillian Gish
American actress
Kentridge, William
William Kentridge
South African artist and filmmaker

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