- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1958
- Place of Birth
- Wichita, Kansas, USA
Chris Buck
Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little. Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound. Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director…
Filmography
tvCitizen Nation
2024 · Executive Producer
movieWish
2023 · Story, Director
movieOnce Upon a Studio
2023 · Thanks
movieOnce Upon a Snowman
2020 · Creative Consultant
tvInto the Unknown: Making Frozen II
2020 · Self
movieFrozen II
2019 · Story, Director
movieOlaf's Frozen Adventure
2017 · Characters
movieSurf's Up 2: WaveMania
2017 · Characters
movieBehind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015 · Himself
movieFrozen Fever
2015 · Director, Writer
movieThe Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2014 · Self
movieFrozen
2013 · Director, Story
movieNot Your Time
2010 · Himself, Animation
movieSurf's Up
2007 · Filmmaker (voice), Screenplay, Director
movieHome on the Range
2004 · Supervising Animator
movieTarzan
1999 · Director
moviePocahontas
1995 · Supervising Animator, Story
tvFamily Dog
1993 · Director
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
movieA Woman's Point of View During Sex
1993 · The guy
movieThe Rescuers Down Under
1990 · Visual Development
movieNext Door
1990 · Thanks
moviePalm Springs
1989 · Thanks
movieThe Little Mermaid
1989 · Character Designer
movieOliver & Company
1988 · Animation
movieWinter
1988 · Thanks
movieThe Brave Little Toaster
1987 · Character Designer
movieSport Goofy in Soccermania
1987 · Supervising Animator
tvAmazing Stories
1985 · Animation Supervisor
movieThe Black Cauldron
1985 · Animation
movieThe Fox and the Hound
1981 · Animation
movieDoctor of Doom
1979 · Pepe