Chris Buck

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1958-02-24 (67 years old)

Place of Birth

Wichita, Kansas, USA

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 t...

Production

2007

Surf's Up

as Screenplay

1999

Tarzan

as Director

2013

Frozen

as Director

2013

Frozen

as Story

2023

2015

Frozen Fever

as Director

2023

Wish

as Story

1995

Pocahontas

as Supervising Animator

1988

Oliver & Company

as Animation

1995

Pocahontas

as Story

1985

The Black Cauldron

as Animation

2010

Not Your Time

as Animation

2004

Home on the Range

as Supervising Animator

2023

Wish

as Director

2007

Surf's Up

as Director

2017

1989

The Little Mermaid

as Character Designer

1988

Winter

as Thanks

1990

Next Door

as Thanks

1989

Palm Springs

as Thanks

1987

The Brave Little Toaster

as Character Designer

2019

Frozen II

as Story

2019

Frozen II

as Director

2015

Frozen Fever

as Writer

2020

Once Upon a Snowman

as Creative Consultant

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