Known For
Directing
Born
Sep 24, 1957
Place of Birth
Kalispell, Montana, USA
Credits
51 titles
Brad Bird
Biography
Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. In 2026, he is set to partner with Skydance Animation to direct Ray Gunn, a sci-fi noir film he’s wanted to make for over thirty years. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
Known For
Filmography
Incredibles 3
Writer
Ray Gunn
Director
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
Edna Mode (voice)
Megalopolis
Thanks
Il était une fois Disney & la France
Self
Director by Night
Self (archive footage)
Werewolf by Night
Thanks
The Power of Stone
Self
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
Writer
Pass the Warning: Reflecting on Nic Roeg's Masterpiece
Self
Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird
Self - Writer & director
Auntie Edna
Edna Mode (voice)
Incredibles 2
Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice)
The Giant's Dream: The Making of the Iron Giant
Self
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'
Jurassic World
Monorail Announcer (voice)
Tomorrowland
Director
Tomorrowland: The Origins of Plus Ultra
Director
Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted
Self
Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions
Self
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Director
Pixar 25 Magic Moments
Self - Writer / Director, The Incredibles
The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special - In 3D! On Ice!
Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Self (archive footage)
Partly Cloudy
Thanks
Redefining the Line: The Making of One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Self
Your Friend the Rat
Executive Producer
Fine Food and Film
Self - Screenwriter/Director
Fog City Mavericks
Self
The Pixar Story
Self
Ratatouille
Ambrister Minion (voice)
More Making of 'The Incredibles'
Self
One Man Band
Executive Producer
Jack-Jack Attack
Director
The Making of 'The Incredibles'
Self
Mr. Incredible and Pals
Writer
Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell
Executive Producer
From Walt's Table: A Tribute to Disney's Nine Old Men
Self
The Incredibles
Edna 'E' Mode (voice)
The Iron Giant
Director
The Making of 'The Iron Giant'
Self
Family Dog
Director
The Simpsons
Director
*batteries not included
Screenplay
Amazing Stories
Scientist #2
The Plague Dogs
Animation
Animalympics
Animation
Doctor of Doom
Don Carlo's Voice/Bystander's Voice
Tortoise and the Hare
Director
The Oscars
Self / Edna Mode (voice)