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Chris Buck
Wichita, Kansas, USA
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 Di…
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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.
Filmography
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2024
Citizen Nation
TV show Executive Producer
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2023
Wish
Movie Story
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2023
Once Upon a Studio
Movie Thanks
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2020
Once Upon a Snowman
Movie Creative Consultant
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2020
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
TV show Self
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2019
Frozen II
Movie Story
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2017
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
Movie Characters
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2017
Surf's Up 2: WaveMania
Movie Characters
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2015
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Movie Himself
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2015
Frozen Fever
Movie Director
- 2014
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2013
Frozen
Movie Director
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2010
Not Your Time
Movie Himself
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2007
Surf's Up
Movie Filmmaker (voice)
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2004
Home on the Range
Movie Supervising Animator
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1999
Tarzan
Movie Director
More credits
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1995
Pocahontas
Movie Supervising Animator
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1993
Family Dog
TV show Director
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1993
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
Movie The guy
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1990
The Rescuers Down Under
Movie Visual Development
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1990
Next Door
Movie Thanks
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1989
Palm Springs
Movie Thanks
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1989
The Little Mermaid
Movie Character Designer
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1988
Oliver & Company
Movie Animation
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1988
Winter
Movie Thanks
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1987
The Brave Little Toaster
Movie Character Designer
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1987
Sport Goofy in Soccermania
Movie Supervising Animator
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1985
Amazing Stories
TV show Animation Supervisor
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1985
The Black Cauldron
Movie Animation
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1981
The Fox and the Hound
Movie Animation
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1979
Doctor of Doom
Movie Pepe
