Known For
Directing
Born
Feb 24, 1958
Place of Birth
Wichita, Kansas, USA
Credits
31 titles
Chris Buck
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Citizen Nation
Executive Producer
Wish
Story
Once Upon a Studio
Thanks
Once Upon a Snowman
Creative Consultant
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
Self
Frozen II
Story
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
Characters
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
Characters
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Himself
Frozen Fever
Director
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
Self
Frozen
Director
Not Your Time
Himself
Surf's Up
Filmmaker (voice)
Home on the Range
Supervising Animator
Tarzan
Director
Pocahontas
Supervising Animator
Family Dog
Director
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
The guy
The Rescuers Down Under
Visual Development
Next Door
Thanks
Palm Springs
Thanks
The Little Mermaid
Character Designer
Oliver & Company
Animation
Winter
Thanks
The Brave Little Toaster
Character Designer
Sport Goofy in Soccermania
Supervising Animator
Amazing Stories
Animation Supervisor
The Black Cauldron
Animation
The Fox and the Hound
Animation
Doctor of Doom
Pepe