Chris Buck
Directing
- Born
- February 24, 1958 (age 68) · 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 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.
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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
November 20, 2013
Frozen II
November 20, 2019
The Little Mermaid
November 17, 1989
Tarzan
June 17, 1999
Pocahontas
June 16, 1995
The Fox and the Hound
July 10, 1981
Surf's Up
June 8, 2007
Home on the Range
April 2, 2004
Frozen Fever
March 9, 2015
Wish
November 13, 2023
Oliver & Company
November 18, 1988
Olaf's Frozen Adventure
October 27, 2017
Behind the camera19
- 2023Wish Story, Director
- 2020Once Upon a Snowman Creative Consultant
- 2019Frozen II Story, Director
- 2017Olaf's Frozen Adventure Characters
- 2017Surf's Up 2: WaveMania Characters
- 2015Frozen Fever Director, Writer
- 2013Frozen Director, Story
- 2010Not Your Time Animation
- 2007Surf's Up Screenplay, Director
- 2004Home on the Range