Chris Buck

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Male

Birthday 1958-02-24 (66 years old)

Place of Birth Wichita, Kansas, USA

Also Known As 크리스 벅, クリス・バック

Chris Buck

Biography

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

Director

2023
Wish

as Director

2019
Frozen II

as Director

2015
Frozen Fever

as Director

2013
Frozen

as Director

2007
Surf's Up

as Director

1999
Tarzan

as Director

1993
Family Dog

as Director

Writer

2023
Wish

as Story

2019
Frozen II

as Story

2017
2015
Frozen Fever

as Writer

2013
Frozen

as Story

2007
Surf's Up

as Screenplay

1995
Pocahontas

as Story

Crew

2023
2020
Once Upon a Snowman

as Creative Consultant

2004
Home on the Range

as Supervising Animator

1995
Pocahontas

as Supervising Animator

1990
Next Door

as Thanks

1989
Palm Springs

as Thanks

1988
Winter

as Thanks

Visual Effects

2010
Not Your Time

as Animation

1989
The Little Mermaid

as Character Designer

1988
Oliver & Company

as Animation

1987
The Brave Little Toaster

as Character Designer

1985
The Black Cauldron

as Animation

1985
Amazing Stories

as Animation Supervisor