Friz Freleng
Directing
Born August 21, 1906 · Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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".
Directed (338)
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
2020
The DePatie/Frelang Collection: Crazylegs Crane
2016
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One
2011
Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
2010
The Essential Bugs Bunny
2010
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010
Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
2010
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
2007
The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 1
2005
The Pink Panther Classic: Cartoon Collection Vol. 2
2005
Looney Tunes Collection: Best Of Bugs Bunny Volume 1
2004
Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1
2003
Looney Tunes All Stars
1999
Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth
1998
Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes
1998
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
1991
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
1991
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
1988
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
1983
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1982
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
1982
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981
Bugs Bunny: All American Hero
1981
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
1980
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
1980
The Chocolate Chase
1980
The Yolks on You
1980
Daffy Flies North
1980
Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement
1980
Pink Panther in Olym-pinks
1980
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
1979
Fright Before Christmas
1979
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
1979
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
1979
How Bugs Bunny Won the West
1978
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
1977
Bugs Bunny in Space
1977
Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
1977
Pink-In
1971
The Ant and the Aardvark
1969
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation
1965
The Inspector
1965
The Pink Tail Fly
1965
Pink Ice
1965
Shocking Pink
1965
Pinkfinger
1965
Pickled Pink
1965
Sink Pink
1965
Dial 'P' for Pink
1965
The Wild Chase
1965
We Give Pink Stamps
1965
Cats and Bruises
1965
It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
1965
Road to Andalay
1964
Pink Pajamas
1964
The Pink Phink
1964
Pancho's Hideaway
1964
Nuts and Volts
1964
The Unmentionables
1963
Chili Weather
1963
Mexican Cat Dance
1963
Devil's Feud Cake
1963
Shishkabugs
1962
The Jet Cage
1962
Honey's Money
1962
Mexican Boarders
1962
Crows' Feat
1962
The Last Hungry Cat
1961
Prince Violent
1961
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
1961
The Rebel Without Claws
1961
D' Fightin' Ones
1961
Bad-Time Story
1961
Lighter Than Hare
1960
Trip for Tat
1960
From Hare to Heir
1960
Mouse and Garden
1960
Hyde and Go Tweet
1960
Person to Bunny
1960
Goldimouse and the Three Cats
1960
Horse Hare
1960
Tweet Dreams
1959
Here Today, Gone Tamale
1959
Wild and Woolly Hare
1959
Tweet and Lovely
1959
Mexicali Shmoes
1959
Apes of Wrath
1959
Trick or Tweet
1959
Hare-abian Nights
1959
A Bird in a Bonnet
1958
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958
A Waggily Tale
1958
A Pizza Tweety-Pie
1958
Hare-Less Wolf
1958
Gonzales' Tamales
1957
Show Biz Bugs
1957
Greedy for Tweety
1957
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957
Birds Anonymous
1957
Piker's Peak
1957
Tweety and the Beanstalk
1957
Tweet Zoo
1957
Three Little Bops
1957
Two Crows from Tacos
1956
Yankee Dood It
1956
A Star Is Bored
1956
Tugboat Granny
1956
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956
Tree Cornered Tweety
1956
Rabbitson Crusoe
1956
Tweet and Sour
1956
Pappy's Puppy
1955
Heir-Conditioned
1955
Roman Legion-Hare
1955
Red Riding Hoodwinked
1955
Speedy Gonzales
1955
Hyde and Hare
1955
A Kiddies Kitty
1955
This Is a Life?
1955
Lumber Jerks
1955
Tweety's Circus
1955
Hare Brush
1955
Sandy Claws
1955
Sahara Hare
1955
Stork Naked
1955
Pests for Guests
1955
Pizzicato Pussycat
1955
By Word of Mouse
1954
Goo Goo Goliath
1954
Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954
Satan's Waitin'
1954
Muzzle Tough
1954
Dr. Jerkyl's Hide
1954
Bugs and Thugs
1954
I Gopher You
1954
Captain Hareblower
1954
Dog Pounded
1954
Robot Rabbit
1953
Catty Cornered
1953
A Street Cat Named Sylvester
1953
Looney Tunes: Best of Speedy Gonzales Volume 1
1953
Tom Tom Tomcat
1953
Hare Trimmed
1953
Ant Pasted
1953
Southern Fried Rabbit
1953
Fowl Weather
1953
A Mouse Divided
1953
Snow Business
1953
Hare Lift
1952
Tree for Two
1952
A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1952
Cracked Quack
1952
Ain't She Tweet
1952
Orange Blossoms for Violet
1952
Little Red Rodent Hood
1952
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952
Foxy by Proxy
1952
Gift Wrapped
1952
Tweet Tweet Tweety
1951
Ballot Box Bunny
1951
Tweety's S.O.S.
1951
His Hare Raising Tale
1951
Room and Bird
1951
The Fair Haired Hare
1951
A Bone for a Bone
1951
Putty Tat Trouble
1951
Rabbit Every Monday
1951
Canned Feud
1951
Stooge for a Mouse
1950
Canary Row
1950
Bunker Hill Bunny
1950
Golden Yeggs
1950
All a Bir-r-r-d
1950
His Bitter Half
1950
Big House Bunny
1950
The Lion's Busy
1950
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950
Home, Tweet Home
1950
Which Is Witch
1949
Each Dawn I Crow
1949
Dough for the Do-Do
1949
Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1949
Knights Must Fall
1949
Mouse Mazurka
1949
Curtain Razor
1949
High Diving Hare
1949
Hare Do
1949
Wise Quackers
1949
Kit for Cat
1948
Hare Splitter
1948
Two Guys from Texas
1948
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948
Buccaneer Bunny
1948
I Taw a Putty Tat
1948
Back Alley Oproar
1948
Slick Hare
1947
Along Came Daffy
1947
Rabbit Transit
1947
Tweetie Pie
1947
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947
The Gay Anties
1947
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946
Racketeer Rabbit
1946
Of Thee I Sting
1946
Hollywood Daffy
1946
Holiday for Shoestrings
1946
Baseball Bugs
1946
Peck Up Your Troubles
1945
Operation Snafu
1945
Hot Spot
1945
Ain't That Ducky
1945
Hare Trigger
1945
Life with Feathers
1945
Herr Meets Hare
1945
Stage Door Cartoon
1944
Target Snafu
1944
Three Brothers
1944
Pay Day
1944
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
1944
Hare Force
1944
Slightly Daffy
1944
Duck Soup to Nuts
1944
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
1944
Snafuperman
1944
Meatless Flyday
1944
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
Rumors
1943
Daffy - The Commando
1943
Hiss and Make Up
1943
Gripes
1943
Fifth Column Mouse
1943
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943
Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943
Greetings Bait
1943
Pigs in a Polka
1943
Ding Dog Daddy
1942
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942
The Sheepish Wolf
1942
Fresh Hare
1942
Foney Fables
1942
Double Chaser
1942
Lights Fantastic
1942
Saps in Chaps
1942
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
1942
Porky's Pastry Pirates
1942
Hop, Skip and a Chump
1942
Rhapsody in Rivets
1941
Rookie Revue
1941
Notes to You
1941
Sport Chumpions
1941
The Wacky Worm
1941
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
1941
The Trial of Mr. Wolf
1941
Porky's Bear Facts
1941
The Cat's Tale
1941
The Fighting 69½th
1941
Shop Look & Listen
1940
Porky's Hired Hand
1940
Calling Dr. Porky
1940
Malibu Beach Party
1940
The Bookworm Turns
1940
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
1940
Little Blabbermouse
1940
You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940
The Hardship of Miles Standish
1940
Confederate Honey
1940
The Mad Maestro
1939
The Bookworm
1939
Mama's New Hat
1939
Seal Skinners
1939
Petunia Natural Park
1939
The Captain's Christmas
1938
The Honduras Hurricane
1938
The Pygmy Hunt
1938
A Day at the Beach
1938
Poultry Pirates
1938
A Star Is Hatched
1938
Jungle Jitters
1938
My Little Buckeroo
1938
September in the Rain
1937
The Lyin' Mouse
1937
Dog Daze
1937
Plenty of Money and You
1937
Sweet Sioux
1937
Streamlined Greta Green
1937
Clean Pastures
1937
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
1937
The Fella with a Fiddle
1937
Pigs Is Pigs
1937
He Was Her Man
1937
The CooCoo Nut Grove
1936
Boulevardier from the Bronx
1936
Toy Town Hall
1936
At Your Service Madame
1936
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
1936
When I Yoo Hoo
1936
Bingo Crosbyana
1936
Let It Be Me
1936
I'm a Big Shot Now
1936
The Cat Came Back
1936
I Wanna Play House
1936
Flowers for Madame
1935
Billboard Frolics
1935
Little Dutch Plate
1935
The Lady in Red
1935
The Merry Old Soul
1935
Country Mouse
1935
Into Your Dance
1935
My Green Fedora
1935
Along Flirtation Walk
1935
I Haven't Got a Hat
1935
Country Boy
1935
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
1935
Pop Goes Your Heart
1934
Those Beautiful Dames
1934
Shake Your Powder Puff
1934
The Miller's Daughter
1934
The Girl at the Ironing Board
1934
Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
1934
How Do I Know It's Sunday
1934
Goin' to Heaven on a Mule
1934
Buddy's Trolley Troubles
1934
Beauty and the Beast
1934
Buddy and Towser
1934
Buddy the Gob
1934
Buddy's Beer Garden
1933
Bosko's Picture Show
1933
Beau Bosko
1933
Bosko in Person
1933
Bosko in Dutch
1933
Weary Willies
1929
The Wicked West
1929
Stripes and Stars
1929
Hen Fruit
1929
Homeless Homer
1929
Fiery Fireman
1928
Acting (11)
Goodbye, Warner Bros., Hello DePatie-Freleng
2016
That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace
2014
Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
2012
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
2012
Friz on Film
2006
Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White
2005
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986
Bugs Bunny Superstar
1976