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Brad Bird
Kalispell, Montana, USA
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…
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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
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2028
Incredibles 3
Movie Edna Mode (voice)
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2026
Ray Gunn
Movie Gunsol / Musker (voice)
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2025
Incredicoaster | Disneyland Resort
Movie Edna Mode (voice)
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2024
Megalopolis
Movie Thanks
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2023
Il était une fois Disney & la France
Movie Self
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2022
Director by Night
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2022
Werewolf by Night
Movie Thanks
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2022
The Power of Stone
Movie Self
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2021
Ratatouille: The TikTok Musical
Movie Original Film Writer
- 2019
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2018
Strong Coffee: The Full-Bodied Mind of Pixar’s Brad Bird
Movie Self - Writer & director
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2018
Auntie Edna
Movie Edna Mode (voice)
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2018
Incredibles 2
Movie Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice)
- 2016
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2015
A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman
Movie Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'
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2015
Jurassic World
Movie Monorail Announcer (voice)
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2015
Tomorrowland
Movie Director
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2015
Tomorrowland: The Origins of Plus Ultra
Movie Director
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2012
Ghost Protocol: Mission Accepted
Movie Self
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2012
Ghost Protocol: Impossible Missions
Movie Self
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2011
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
Movie Director
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2011
Pixar 25 Magic Moments
Movie Self - Writer / Director, The Incredibles
- 2010
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2009
Waking Sleeping Beauty
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2009
Partly Cloudy
Movie Thanks
- 2008
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2007
Your Friend the Rat
Movie Executive Producer
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2007
Fine Food and Film
Movie Self - Screenwriter/Director
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2007
Fog City Mavericks
Movie Self
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2007
The Pixar Story
Movie Self
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2007
Ratatouille
Movie Ambrister Minion (voice)
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2005
More Making of 'The Incredibles'
Movie Self
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2005
One Man Band
Movie Executive Producer
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2005
Jack-Jack Attack
Movie Director
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2005
Mr. Incredible and Pals
Movie Writer
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2005
The Making of 'The Incredibles'
Movie Self
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2005
Vowellet - An Essay by Sarah Vowell
Movie Executive Producer
- 2005
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2004
The Incredibles
Movie Edna 'E' Mode (voice)
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1999
The Iron Giant
Movie Director
