Michael Maltese (February 6 1908 - February 22 1981) was a storyboard artist and screenwriter for Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. (known before 1944 as Leon Schlesinger Productions) from 1941 to 1961. Starting in the late 1940s, he worked exclusively with director Chuck Jones, and the two of them collaborated on classic cartoons like What's Opera Doc? (1957) and Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century (1953), and also collaborated with Jones on the 1960s Tom and Jerry cartoons. From 1958 until 1970, he also worked at Hanna-Barbera Productions on television cartoons such as The Huckleberry Hound Show, The Flintstones, and The Jetsons.