Directing
34
Man
Feb 24, 1958 (66)
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 of the subsequent primetime animated series. Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup. A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II | Self |
| 2015 | Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs | Himself |
| 2014 | The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic | Self |
| 2010 | Not Your Time | Himself |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Filmmaker (voice) |
| 1993 | A Woman's Point of View During Sex | The guy |
| 1979 | Doctor of Doom | Pepe |
| Year | Movie / TV show / Other | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Wish | Story |
| 2023 | Wish | Director |
| 2023 | Once Upon a Studio | Thanks |
| 2020 | Once Upon a Snowman | Creative Consultant |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Story |
| 2019 | Frozen II | Director |
| 2017 | Olaf's Frozen Adventure | Characters |
| 2015 | Frozen Fever | Director |
| 2015 | Frozen Fever | Writer |
| 2013 | Frozen | Director |
| 2013 | Frozen | Story |
| 2010 | Not Your Time | Animation |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Screenplay |
| 2007 | Surf's Up | Director |
| 2004 | Home on the Range | Supervising Animator |
| 1999 | Tarzan | Director |
| 1995 | Pocahontas | Story |
| 1995 | Pocahontas | Supervising Animator |
| 1993 | Family Dog | Director |
| 1990 | Next Door | Thanks |
| 1989 | The Little Mermaid | Character Designer |
| 1989 | Palm Springs | Thanks |
| 1988 | Oliver & Company | Animation |
| 1988 | Winter | Thanks |
| 1987 | The Brave Little Toaster | Character Designer |
| 1985 | The Black Cauldron | Animation |
| 1985 | Amazing Stories | Animation Supervisor |