Chris Buck

Regisseur, Schrijver, Acteur, Producer

24 februari 1958 (68 years)
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

  • Frozen
    Frozen2013
  • Tarzan
    Tarzan1999
  • Pocahontas
    Pocahontas1995
  • Frozen II
    Frozen II2019
  • Surf's Up: Een Oceanimatiefilm
    Surf's Up: Een Oceanimatiefilm2007
  • Wish
    Wish2023
  • Frozen Fever
    Frozen Fever2015
  • Olaf's Frozen Avontuur
    Olaf's Frozen Avontuur2017
  • Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
    Surf's Up 2: WaveMania2017
  • Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical
    Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical2025
  • Free Money
    Free Money2023
  • Citizen Nation
    Citizen Nation1 season

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