Friz Freleng
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".
343 directing credits · 14 acting credits
Directing · 343
Looney Tunes Golden Collection
1946
The Inspector
1965
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales
1982
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie
1981
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island
1983
The Gay Anties
1947
Canary Row
1950
The CooCoo Nut Grove
1936
The Dogfather
1974
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters
1988
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One
2011
Pinkfinger
1965
How Bugs Bunny Won the West
1978
Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement
1980
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper
1942
Red Riding Hoodwinked
1955
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes
1991
The Last Hungry Cat
1961
The Ant and the Aardvark
1969
Tweetie Pie
1947
Yankee Doodle Daffy
1943
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt
1941
Lumber Jerks
1955
Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1
2003
Speedy Gonzales
1955
Dough for the Do-Do
1949
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special
1979
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist
1942
The Mad Maestro
1939
Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes
1998
Little Red Riding Rabbit
1944
Gift Wrapped
1952
Slick Hare
1947
Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk
1943
Rumors
1943
Big House Bunny
1950
The Inspector
1965
Baseball Bugs
1946
Pigs in a Polka
1943
Bad Ol' Putty Tat
1949
Ain't She Tweet
1952
Racketeer Rabbit
1946
High Diving Hare
1949
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television
1982
Looney Tunes All Stars
1999
The Pink Phink
1964
Hare Brush
1955
Tweet Tweet Tweety
1951
Tweety's S.O.S.
1951
Streamlined Greta Green
1937
Looney Tunes Collection: Best Of Bugs Bunny Volume 1
2004
Rhapsody Rabbit
1946
A Kiddies Kitty
1955
The Essential Bugs Bunny
2010
Birds Anonymous
1957
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl
2010
Duck Soup to Nuts
1944
A Star Is Hatched
1938
Pizzicato Pussycat
1955
Along Came Daffy
1947
Sandy Claws
1955
Buccaneer Bunny
1948
A Mouse Divided
1953
The Bookworm Turns
1940
Of Thee I Sting
1946
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special
1980
Ain't That Ducky
1945
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5
2007
Plenty of Money and You
1937
Pink-In
1971
A Bird in a Guilty Cage
1952
Hyde and Hare
1955
You Ought to Be in Pictures
1940
Hot Spot
1945
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet
1979
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame
1991
Stage Door Cartoon
1944
Hare Splitter
1948
The Wacky Worm
1941
Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth
1998
D' Fightin' Ones
1961
Shop Look & Listen
1940
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special
1980
Room and Bird
1951
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire
2010
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation
1965
Ballot Box Bunny
1951
Pigs Is Pigs
1937
Porky's Pastry Pirates
1942
Pink Panther in Olym-pinks
1980
Sweet Sioux
1937
A Pizza Tweety-Pie
1958
Hare Do
1949
I Wanna Play House
1936
Operation Snafu
1945
Goo Goo Goliath
1954
Bugs and Thugs
1954
I Haven't Got a Hat
1935
Apes of Wrath
1959
Satan's Waitin'
1954
Gripes
1943
Pappy's Puppy
1955
Orange Blossoms for Violet
1952
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name
1935
Foney Fables
1942
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol
1979
The Cat Came Back
1936
Show Biz Bugs
1957
Porky's Baseball Broadcast
1940
Tweety and the Beanstalk
1957
A Day at the Beach
1938
At Your Service Madame
1936
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection
2020
A Waggily Tale
1958
Snow Business
1953
Curtain Razor
1949
Goldimouse and the Three Cats
1960
The Wild Chase
1965
Fowl Weather
1953
Three Little Bops
1957
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales
1979
Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies
1977
Country Boy
1935
Into Your Dance
1935
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears
1944
A Bird in a Bonnet
1958
I Taw a Putty Tat
1948
Petunia Natural Park
1939
Dial 'P' for Pink
1965
Bugsy and Mugsy
1957
Roman Legion-Hare
1955
Back Alley Oproar
1948
Dog Pounded
1954
The Captain's Christmas
1938
Tugboat Granny
1956
Catty Cornered
1953
Bugs Bunny Rides Again
1948
Rabbit Every Monday
1951
Sink Pink
1965
All a Bir-r-r-d
1950
Tom Tom Tomcat
1953
Hiss and Make Up
1943
Southern Fried Rabbit
1953
Bunker Hill Bunny
1950
14 Carrot Rabbit
1952
A Bone for a Bone
1951
Snafuperman
1944
Meatless Flyday
1944
Tweety's Circus
1955
Home, Tweet Home
1950
Kit for Cat
1948
Greedy for Tweety
1957
Life with Feathers
1945
Daffy - The Commando
1943
Goin' to Heaven on a Mule
1934
Knights Must Fall
1949
Putty Tat Trouble
1951
The Trial of Mr. Wolf
1941
Golden Yeggs
1950
Hare Trigger
1945
Which Is Witch
1949
Horse Hare
1960
Pink Ice
1965
Captain Hareblower
1954
Trip for Tat
1960
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips
1944
The Hardship of Miles Standish
1940
Stork Naked
1955
The Fella with a Fiddle
1937
This Is a Life?
1955
The Pink Tail Fly
1965
Pay Day
1944
Two Guys from Texas
1948
Fresh Hare
1942
From Hare to Heir
1960
Hare-Less Wolf
1958
Each Dawn I Crow
1949
Rabbitson Crusoe
1956
Foxy by Proxy
1952
Shocking Pink
1965
By Word of Mouse
1954
Double Chaser
1942
Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy
2010
Target Snafu
1944
Hare Force
1944
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe
1961
Crows' Feat
1962
Fright Before Christmas
1979
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter
1937
Sahara Hare
1955
Country Mouse
1935
Prince Violent
1961
Mutiny on the Bunny
1950
Devil's Feud Cake
1963
Daffy Flies North
1980
Knighty Knight Bugs
1958
The Unmentionables
1963
Tree for Two
1952
Mexicali Shmoes
1959
Three Brothers
1944
Bosko in Person
1933
Wise Quackers
1949
Bugs Bunny in Space
1977
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time
1936
Pickled Pink
1965
Dog Daze
1937
Mouse and Garden
1960
Mouse Mazurka
1949
When I Yoo Hoo
1936
Herr Meets Hare
1945
Hare Trimmed
1953
Tweet Zoo
1957
Seal Skinners
1939
Rabbit Transit
1947
His Bitter Half
1950
Bosko in Dutch
1933
Person to Bunny
1960
Hyde and Go Tweet
1960
Pests for Guests
1955
A Hare Grows in Manhattan
1947
Pink Pajamas
1964
The Yolks on You
1980
Bugs Bunny: All American Hero
1981
The Cat's Tale
1941
The Lyin' Mouse
1937
Jungle Jitters
1938
Tweet Dreams
1959
Bosko's Picture Show
1933
Honey's Money
1962
Tweet and Lovely
1959
Greetings Bait
1943
A Street Cat Named Sylvester
1953
The Chocolate Chase
1980
The Bookworm
1939
Toy Town Hall
1936
Mama's New Hat
1939
Robot Rabbit
1953
His Hare Raising Tale
1951
Buddy's Trolley Troubles
1934
Rookie Revue
1941
How Do I Know It's Sunday
1934
Little Red Rodent Hood
1952
Billboard Frolics
1935
Tweet and Sour
1956
Fifth Column Mouse
1943
My Little Buckeroo
1938
Wild and Woolly Hare
1959
Homeless Homer
1929
The Rebel Without Claws
1961
Heir-Conditioned
1955
Gonzales' Tamales
1957
Shishkabugs
1962
Poultry Pirates
1938
Flowers for Madame
1935
Beauty and the Beast
1934
Mexican Boarders
1962
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special
1977
He Was Her Man
1937
Pancho's Hideaway
1964
Canned Feud
1951
Clean Pastures
1937
Pop Goes Your Heart
1934
Sport Chumpions
1941
Buddy and Towser
1934
The Merry Old Soul
1935
Hare-abian Nights
1959
Little Blabbermouse
1940
Buddy's Beer Garden
1933
The Girl at the Ironing Board
1934
The Lion's Busy
1950
The Jet Cage
1962
Hollywood Daffy
1946
Muzzle Tough
1954
Ding Dog Daddy
1942
The Lady in Red
1935
Buddy the Gob
1934
The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 3
2005
Dr. Jerkyl's Hide
1954
I Gopher You
1954
Those Beautiful Dames
1934
The Miller's Daughter
1934
Bingo Crosbyana
1936
Fiery Firemen
1928
The Fighting 69½th
1941
Ant Pasted
1953
Notes to You
1941
Stooge for a Mouse
1950
Confederate Honey
1940
Peck Up Your Troubles
1945
My Green Fedora
1935
Tree Cornered Tweety
1956
Malibu Beach Party
1940
Let It Be Me
1936
Mexican Cat Dance
1963
Napoleon Bunny-Part
1956
Rhapsody in Rivets
1941
Lighter Than Hare
1960
Why Do I Dream Those Dreams
1934
Saps in Chaps
1942
Chili Weather
1963
I'm a Big Shot Now
1936
Cracked Quack
1952
Porky's Bear Facts
1941
Yankee Doodle Bugs
1954
The Pygmy Hunt
1938
Trick or Tweet
1959
Yankee Dood It
1956
Hop, Skip and a Chump
1942
Bad-Time Story
1961
The DePatie/Frelang Collection: Crazylegs Crane
2016
Holiday for Shoestrings
1946
Hare Lift
1952
The Sheepish Wolf
1942
Two Crows from Tacos
1956
Slightly Daffy
1944
We Give Pink Stamps
1965
Lights Fantastic
1942
The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 2
2005
Nuts and Volts
1964
Stripes and Stars
1929
Cats and Bruises
1965
Along Flirtation Walk
1935
September in the Rain
1937
Beau Bosko
1933
Shake Your Powder Puff
1934
A Star Is Bored
1956
Road to Andalay
1964
Calling Dr. Porky
1940
Hen Fruit
1929
Here Today, Gone Tamale
1959
Porky's Hired Hand
1940
Piker's Peak
1957
The Honduras Hurricane
1938
The Fair Haired Hare
1951
Boulevardier from the Bronx
1936
Looney Tunes: Best of Speedy Gonzales Volume 1
1953
Little Dutch Plate
1935
The Wicked West
1929
Behind the Tunes: Forever Befuddled
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It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House
1965
Weary Willies
1929
Behind the Tunes: Short Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
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Acting · 14
Gremlins
1984
Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary
1986
Roger Rabbit and the Secrets of Toon Town
1988
Camera Three
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Bugs Bunny Superstar
1976
The Magical World of Chuck Jones
1992
Irreverent Imagination: The Golden Age of the Looney Tunes
2003
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
2012
That's All Folks! Tales from Termite Terrace
2014
Behind the Tunes: Leon Schlesinger - The Merrie Cartoon Mogul
2012
Behind the Tunes: Bosko, Buddy and the Best of Black and White
2005
Friz on Film
2006
Goodbye, Warner Bros., Hello DePatie-Freleng
2016
Behind the Tunes: Short Fuse Shootout: The Small Tale of Yosemite Sam
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