Friz Freleng
Photoplayd Industry Rating
Not enough rated films yet to compute a weighted score.
Roles are weighted by involvement: director 1.0, screenwriter 0.7, lead 0.8, supporting 0.4, crew 0.1.
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".
Known for
Credits
Speedy Gonzales (1955)
Director
The Looney, Looney, Looney Bugs Bunny Movie (1981)
Director
A Mouse Divided (1953)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Easter Funnies (1977)
Director
Bugs Bunny's 3rd Movie: 1001 Rabbit Tales (1982)
Director
Looney Tunes Super Stars Tweety & Sylvester: Feline Fwenzy (2010)
Director
Daffy Duck's Movie: Fantastic Island (1983)
Director
The Ant and the Aardvark (1969)
Director
Daffy Duck's Quackbusters (1988)
Director
Looney Tunes Platinum Collection: Volume One (2011)
Director
Yankee Doodle Daffy (1943)
Director
The Bugs Bunny Mystery Special (1980)
Director
Tweetie Pie (1947)
Director
Hare Splitter (1948)
Director
Looney Tunes Golden Collection, Vol. 1 (2003)
Director
Jack-Wabbit and the Beanstalk (1943)
Director
You Ought to Be in Pictures (1940)
Director
Hare Force (1944)
Director
Kit for Cat (1948)
Director
Little Red Riding Rabbit (1944)
Director
Rabbit Transit (1947)
Director
Of Thee I Sting (1946)
Director
The Wild Chase (1965)
Director
Ballot Box Bunny (1951)
Director
Room and Bird (1951)
Director
Sink Pink (1965)
Director
Two Guys from Texas (1948)
Director
Satan's Waitin' (1954)
Director
Bugs and Thugs (1954)
Director
Snafuperman (1944)
Director
Goldimouse and the Three Cats (1960)
Director
Ain't She Tweet (1952)
Director
Knighty Knight Bugs (1958)
Director
Little Blabbermouse (1940)
Director
Streamlined Greta Green (1937)
Director
The Essential Bugs Bunny (2010)
Director
Baseball Bugs (1946)
Director
Hot Spot (1945)
Director
Tweety's Circus (1955)
Director
Wise Quackers (1949)
Director
Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)
Director
Canary Row (1950)
Director
The Inspector (1965)
Director
Target Snafu (1944)
Director
The Bugs Bunny Mother's Day Special (1979)
Director
Buccaneer Bunny (1948)
Director
Bugsy and Mugsy (1957)
Director
Tweety's S.O.S. (1951)
Director
Ain't That Ducky (1945)
Director
Lights Fantastic (1942)
Director
Daffy Duck's Easter Egg-Citement (1980)
Director
Tweet Dreams (1959)
Director
Big House Bunny (1950)
Director
The Last Hungry Cat (1961)
Director
Bugs Bunny 80th Anniversary Collection (2020)
Director
Rabbitson Crusoe (1956)
Director
Dog Pounded (1954)
Director
Dough for the Do-Do (1949)
Director
Red Riding Hoodwinked (1955)
Director
Tweet Tweet Tweety (1951)
Director
Ant Pasted (1953)
Director
Hare Brush (1955)
Director
Apes of Wrath (1959)
Director
Sahara Hare (1955)
Director
The Hare-Brained Hypnotist (1942)
Director
Orange Blossoms for Violet (1952)
Director
How Bugs Bunny Won the West (1978)
Director
Greedy for Tweety (1957)
Director
Bunker Hill Bunny (1950)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
Director
Pinkfinger (1965)
Director
The Wabbit Who Came to Supper (1942)
Director
Hare Trimmed (1953)
Director
Looney Tunes All Stars (1999)
Director
Foney Fables (1942)
Director
Tweety and the Beanstalk (1957)
Director
Hare Do (1949)
Director
The Hardship of Miles Standish (1940)
Director
Country Boy (1935)
Director
Hollywood Daffy (1946)
Director
Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944)
Director
Snow Business (1953)
Director
A Kiddies Kitty (1955)
Director
Looney Tunes Collection: Best Of Bugs Bunny Volume 1 (2004)
Director
Honey's Money (1962)
Director
The CooCoo Nut Grove (1936)
Director
Daffy - The Commando (1943)
Director
Robot Rabbit (1953)
Director
Meatless Flyday (1944)
Director
Gift Wrapped (1952)
Director
The Trial of Mr. Wolf (1941)
Director
Rhapsody Rabbit (1946)
Director
His Bitter Half (1950)
Director
Bugs Bunny Rides Again (1948)
Director
Goldilocks and the Jivin' Bears (1944)
Director
Bugs Bunny: All American Hero (1981)
Director
Pay Day (1944)
Director
This Is a Life? (1955)
Director
Duck Soup to Nuts (1944)
Director
Gripes (1943)
Director
Cracked Quack (1952)
Director
Curtain Razor (1949)
Director
I Taw a Putty Tat (1948)
Director
Canned Feud (1951)
Director
A Bird in a Guilty Cage (1952)
Director
Devil's Feud Cake (1963)
Director
Fright Before Christmas (1979)
Director
Dog Daze (1937)
Director
Lumber Jerks (1955)
Director
Rumors (1943)
Director
Muzzle Tough (1954)
Director
Home, Tweet Home (1950)
Director
Three Brothers (1944)
Director
Horse Hare (1960)
Director
The Pink Phink (1964)
Director
Tweet and Sour (1956)
Director
Jungle Jitters (1938)
Director
Dr. Jerkyl's Hide (1954)
Director
All a Bir-r-r-d (1950)
Director
Pigs Is Pigs (1937)
Director
Person to Bunny (1960)
Director
Pancho's Hideaway (1964)
Director
Greetings Bait (1943)
Director
14 Carrot Rabbit (1952)
Director
Looney Tunes Super Stars Daffy Duck: Frustrated Fowl (2010)
Director
A Bird in a Bonnet (1958)
Director
Putty Tat Trouble (1951)
Director
We Give Pink Stamps (1965)
Director
The Jet Cage (1962)
Director
High Diving Hare (1949)
Director
Bad Ol' Putty Tat (1949)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Mad World of Television (1982)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Lunar Tunes (1991)
Director
Slick Hare (1947)
Director
Mouse and Garden (1960)
Director
His Hare Raising Tale (1951)
Director
Marvin The Martian: Space Tunes (1998)
Director
D' Fightin' Ones (1961)
Director
Pigs in a Polka (1943)
Director
Hare Trigger (1945)
Director
Stage Door Cartoon (1944)
Director
The Bookworm Turns (1940)
Director
Herr Meets Hare (1945)
Director
Chili Weather (1963)
Director
At Your Service Madame (1936)
Director
Looney Tunes: Spotlight Collection Vol. 5 (2007)
Director
Stork Naked (1955)
Director
He Was Her Man (1937)
Director
Sandy Claws (1955)
Director
Shocking Pink (1965)
Director
Fresh Hare (1942)
Director
Sweet Sioux (1937)
Director
The Pied Piper of Guadalupe (1961)
Director
It's Nice to Have a Mouse Around the House (1965)
Director
The Unmentionables (1963)
Director
She Was an Acrobat's Daughter (1937)
Director
The Lyin' Mouse (1937)
Director
A Hare Grows in Manhattan (1947)
Director
Show Biz Bugs (1957)
Director
Pink Panther in Olym-pinks (1980)
Director
Birds Anonymous (1957)
Director
Southern Fried Rabbit (1953)
Director
Napoleon Bunny-Part (1956)
Director
September in the Rain (1937)
Director
The Mad Maestro (1939)
Director
Golden Yeggs (1950)
Director
Each Dawn I Crow (1949)
Director
Looney Tunes Super Stars Bugs Bunny: Hare Extraordinaire (2010)
Director
Trick or Tweet (1959)
Director
I Haven't Got a Hat (1935)
Director
The Pink Tail Fly (1965)
Director
A Waggily Tale (1958)
Director
The Yolks on You (1980)
Director
Malibu Beach Party (1940)
Director
Goo Goo Goliath (1954)
Director
Cats and Bruises (1965)
Director
Shop Look & Listen (1940)
Director
Stooge for a Mouse (1950)
Director
Mexican Cat Dance (1963)
Director
Trip for Tat (1960)
Director
Poultry Pirates (1938)
Director
Catty Cornered (1953)
Director
From Hare to Heir (1960)
Director
Bugs Bunny in Space (1977)
Director
Lighter Than Hare (1960)
Director
Buddy's Beer Garden (1933)
Director
A Star Is Hatched (1938)
Director
Hare Lift (1952)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Howl-oween Special (1977)
Director
Foxy by Proxy (1952)
Director
Operation Snafu (1945)
Director
The Merry Old Soul (1935)
Director
Tugboat Granny (1956)
Director
Pests for Guests (1955)
Director
I Gopher You (1954)
Director
Racketeer Rabbit (1946)
Director
Captain Hareblower (1954)
Director
Yankee Dood It (1956)
Director
Prince Violent (1961)
Director
Hyde and Hare (1955)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Thanksgiving Diet (1979)
Director
Porky's Pastry Pirates (1942)
Director
Pink-In (1971)
Director
Wild and Woolly Hare (1959)
Director
Pizzicato Pussycat (1955)
Director
Pickled Pink (1965)
Director
Mexicali Shmoes (1959)
Director
The Captain's Christmas (1938)
Director
The Rebel Without Claws (1961)
Director
The Great De Gaulle Stone Operation (1965)
Director
The Wacky Worm (1941)
Director
Double Chaser (1942)
Director
Hare-Less Wolf (1958)
Director
I Wanna Play House (1936)
Director
The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 2 (2005)
Director
Shishkabugs (1962)
Director
The Fella with a Fiddle (1937)
Director
Porky's Baseball Broadcast (1940)
Director
Daffy Duck's Thanks-for-Giving Special (1980)
Director
The Cat Came Back (1936)
Director
The Lion's Busy (1950)
Director
Seal Skinners (1939)
Director
Mexican Boarders (1962)
Director
The Pink Panther: Classic Cartoon Collection Vol. 3 (2005)
Director
Tweet and Lovely (1959)
Director
Tree Cornered Tweety (1956)
Director
The Bookworm (1939)
Director
Petunia Natural Park (1939)
Director
Yankee Doodle Bugs (1954)
Director
Rookie Revue (1941)
Director
Ding Dog Daddy (1942)
Director
Pappy's Puppy (1955)
Director
The Sheepish Wolf (1942)
Director
Porky's Bear Facts (1941)
Director
Buddy's Trolley Troubles (1934)
Director
Fowl Weather (1953)
Director
Knights Must Fall (1949)
Director
Slightly Daffy (1944)
Director
Three Little Bops (1957)
Director
Hop, Skip and a Chump (1942)
Director
Fiery Firemen (1928)
Director
Little Red Rodent Hood (1952)
Director
The Looney Tunes Hall of Fame (1991)
Director
The Gay Anties (1947)
Director
Fifth Column Mouse (1943)
Director
Daffy Flies North (1980)
Director
Toy Town Hall (1936)
Director
Rabbit Every Monday (1951)
Director
The Chocolate Chase (1980)
Director
Sport Chumpions (1941)
Director
Mutiny on the Bunny (1950)
Director
Hiawatha's Rabbit Hunt (1941)
Director
Hiss and Make Up (1943)
Director
Pink Ice (1965)
Director
Mama's New Hat (1939)
Director
Holiday for Shoestrings (1946)
Director
A Pizza Tweety-Pie (1958)
Director
Roman Legion-Hare (1955)
Director
Road to Andalay (1964)
Director
Here Today, Gone Tamale (1959)
Director
A Street Cat Named Sylvester (1953)
Director
A Star Is Bored (1956)
Director
Buddy and Towser (1934)
Director
A Bone for a Bone (1951)
Director
Clean Pastures (1937)
Director
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol (1979)
Director
Piker's Peak (1957)
Director
Marvin the Martian & K9: 50 Years on Earth (1998)
Director
Along Came Daffy (1947)
Director
Peck Up Your Troubles (1945)
Director
Dial 'P' for Pink (1965)
Director
By Word of Mouse (1954)
Director
Tree for Two (1952)
Director
Plenty of Money and You (1937)
Director
Notes to You (1941)
Director
Hare-abian Nights (1959)
Director
The Lady in Red (1935)
Director
Little Dutch Plate (1935)
Director
Tom Tom Tomcat (1953)
Director
How Do I Know It's Sunday (1934)
Director
The Honduras Hurricane (1938)
Director
The Miller's Daughter (1934)
Director
A Day at the Beach (1938)
Director
Beauty and the Beast (1934)
Director
Back Alley Oproar (1948)
Director
Into Your Dance (1935)
Director
Gonzales' Tamales (1957)
Director
Beau Bosko (1933)
Director
Sunday Go to Meetin' Time (1936)
Director
Nuts and Volts (1964)
Director
Mr. and Mrs. Is the Name (1935)
Director
Heir-Conditioned (1955)
Director
Porky's Hired Hand (1940)
Director
Country Mouse (1935)
Director
My Green Fedora (1935)
Director
Crows' Feat (1962)
Director
The Fighting 69½th (1941)
Director
Bosko in Person (1933)
Director
Two Crows from Tacos (1956)
Director
Calling Dr. Porky (1940)
Director
Saps in Chaps (1942)
Director
Pink Pajamas (1964)
Director
Those Beautiful Dames (1934)
Director
I'm a Big Shot Now (1936)
Director
Life with Feathers (1945)
Director
Billboard Frolics (1935)
Director
Confederate Honey (1940)
Director
The Cat's Tale (1941)
Director
Rhapsody in Rivets (1941)
Director
Let It Be Me (1936)
Director
Looney Tunes: Best of Speedy Gonzales Volume 1 (1953)
Director
My Little Buckeroo (1938)
Director
Bingo Crosbyana (1936)
Director
Flowers for Madame (1935)
Director
Why Do I Dream Those Dreams (1934)
Director
Tweet Zoo (1957)
Director
Buddy the Gob (1934)
Director
Hyde and Go Tweet (1960)
Director
The Fair Haired Hare (1951)
Director
Bad-Time Story (1961)
Director
Bosko in Dutch (1933)
Director
The DePatie/Frelang Collection: Crazylegs Crane (2016)
Director
Homeless Homer (1929)
Director
Hen Fruit (1929)
Director
The Girl at the Ironing Board (1934)
Director
Shake Your Powder Puff (1934)
Director
The Pygmy Hunt (1938)
Director
Mouse Mazurka (1949)
Director
Which Is Witch (1949)
Director
Bosko's Picture Show (1933)
Director
When I Yoo Hoo (1936)
Director
Pop Goes Your Heart (1934)
Director
Weary Willies (1929)
Director
The Wicked West (1929)
Director
Goin' to Heaven on a Mule (1934)
Director
Boulevardier from the Bronx (1936)
Director
Along Flirtation Walk (1935)
Director
Stripes and Stars (1929)
Director