
Friz Freleng
Biography
Isadore "Friz" Freleng (1906–1995), sometimes credited as I. Freleng, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and producer best known for his work on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from Warner Bros. He introduced and/or developed several of the studio's biggest stars, including Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the cat, Yosemite Sam (to whom he was said to bear more than a passing resemblance) and Speedy Gonzales. The senior director at Warners' Termite Terrace studio, Freleng directed more cartoons than any other director in the studio (a total of 266), and is also the most honored of the Warner directors, having won four Academy Awards. After Warners shut down the animation studio in 1963, Freleng and business partner David H. DePatie founded DePatie-Freleng Enterprises, which produced cartoons (notably The Pink Panther Show), feature film title sequences, and Saturday morning cartoons through the early 1980s. The nickname "Friz" came from his friend Hugh Harman, who initially nicknamed him "Congressman Frizby" after a fictional senator that was in articles in the Los Angeles Examiner. Over time this shortened to "Friz".
Acting (10 movies)

The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992

Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988

Friz on Film
2006

Bugs Bunny/Looney Tunes All-Star 50th Anniversary
1986

That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace
2014

Bugs Bunny Superstar
1975

Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
2012

Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003

Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White
2005

King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
2012
Directing (335 movies)

Speedy Gonzales
1955

A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1952

Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
1979

Baseball Bugs
1946

Big House Bunny
1950

Ballot Box Bunny
1951

Orange Blossoms for Violet
1952

The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981

Dough for the Do-Do
1949
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010

Daffy - The Commando
1943

Gift Wrapped
1952

Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
1983

Buccaneer Bunny
1948

Fright Before Christmas
1979

Three Little Bops
1957

Hyde and Hare
1955

Hyde and Go Tweet
1960

A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947

The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942

I Haven't Got a Hat
1935

Kit for Cat
1948

Putty Tat Trouble
1951

Show Biz Bugs
1957

Hare Force
1944

Lumber Jerks
1955

Rhapsody Rabbit
1946

Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943

Rabbit Transit
1947

The CooCoo Nut Grove
1936

Racketeer Rabbit
1946

Pigs in a Polka
1943

Stage Door Cartoon
1944

Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944

Pigs Is Pigs
1937

Slick Hare
1947

She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
1937

The Last Hungry Cat
1961

The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
1942

Birds Anonymous
1957

You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940

Tweety's S.O.S.
1951

Back Alley Oproar
1948

Rumors
1943

Pay Day
1944

Three Brothers
1944

Target Snafu
1944

Snafuperman
1944

Hot Spot
1945

Operation Snafu
1945

Tweetie Pie
1947

Knighty Knight Bugs
1958

Hare Do
1949
The Mad Maestro
1939

Golden Yeggs
1950

Bunker Hill Bunny
1950

Canary Row
1950

Porky's Pastry Pirates
1942

Canned Feud
1951

Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948

Those Beautiful Dames
1934

Bugs and Thugs
1954

The Captain's Christmas
1938

Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1949

All a Bir-r-r-d
1950

Ain't She Tweet
1952

Room and Bird
1951

Pink Panther in Olym-pinks
1980

Heir-Conditioned
1955

Bosko's Picture Show
1933

Bosko in Person
1933

Beau Bosko
1933

Bosko in Dutch
1933

The Wild Chase
1965

The Fighting 69½th
1941

Tweet Tweet Tweety
1951

Hare Brush
1955

Rhapsody in Rivets
1941

Snow Business
1953

Hare-Less Wolf
1958

Mutiny on the Bunny
1950

Southern Fried Rabbit
1953

Pop Goes Your Heart
1934

Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
1934

The Girl at the Ironing Board
1934

Beauty and the Beast
1934

Buddy and Towser
1934

How Do I Know It's Sunday
1934

Buddy's Trolley Troubles
1934

Buddy the Gob
1934

Goin' to Heaven on a Mule
1934

Robot Rabbit
1953

By Word of Mouse
1954

Herr Meets Hare
1945

Pickled Pink
1965

Chili Weather
1963

Porky's Baseball Broadcast
1940

The Chocolate Chase
1980

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979

I'm a Big Shot Now
1936