- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 24, 1963
- Place of Birth
- San Francisco, California, USA
Kirk Wise
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Wise worked as an animator on The Brave Little Toaster, and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog". At Disney, he began as an assistant animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company before eventually landing in the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate Gary Trousdale. After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper, Wise and Trousdale were responsible for helming the celebrated Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. They collaborated on two more features for Disney,…
Filmography
moviePaws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022 · Additional Voices (voice)
movieBobbleheads: The Movie
2020 · Director
movieHoward
2018 · Self (archive footage)
movieBeyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010 · Self
movieOceans
2010 · Executive Producer
movieWaking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · Self
movieThe Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003 · Himself
movieThe Sweatbox
2002 · Self
movieThe Making of 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire'
2002 · Self - Director
movieAtlantis: The Lost Empire
2001 · Director, Story
movieThe Hunchback of Notre Dame
1996 · Director
movieHomeward Bound: The Incredible Journey
1993 · Executive Producer
movieBeauty and the Beast
1991 · Director
movieThe Rescuers Down Under
1990 · Storyboard
movieOliver & Company
1988 · Story
movieSport Goofy in Soccermania
1987 · Animation
tvAmazing Stories
1985 · Animation
movieChild Proof
1984 · Writer, Director, Animation
movieLet's Misbehave
1983 · Thanks
moviePaws
1983 · Director, Animation
movieX Factor in the Jungle
— · Director