Chris Buck
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 | Directing |
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Most Rating | 9.789 |
Birthday | 1958-02-24 |
Place of Birth | Wichita, Kansas, USA |
Also Known As | 크리스 벅, クリス・バック, |
2007
Surf's Up
6.425/2395
A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.
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1979
Doctor of Doom
5.3/14
A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.
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Doctor of Doom
2014
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
7.8/31
A behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.
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The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2010
Not Your Time
1/1
A failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.
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Not Your Time
1993
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
0/0
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2015
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
6.3/5
The story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) to the silver screen.
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