Rob Minkoff

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1962-08-11 (63 years old)

Place of Birth

Palo Alto, California, USA

Rob Minkoff

Biography

Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Lion King. Minkoff was born in Palo Alto, California. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including The Lion King (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: Tummy Trouble (1989) and Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990). While working at Disney he wrote the song "Good Company" for Oliver & Company. He also made the films Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haun...

Acting

Production

2008

2003

2003

The Haunted Mansion

as Executive Producer

1999

Stuart Little

as Director

2002

Stuart Little 2

as Director

1994

The Lion King

as Director

2011

Flypaper

as Director

1990

1993

Trail Mix-Up

as Story

1993

Trail Mix-Up

as Executive Producer

2014

1988

Technological Threat

as Character Designer

-

Wolf Totem

as Director

1992

2002

Stuart Little 2

as Executive Producer

-

Chinese Odyssey

as Director

-

Chinese Odyssey

as Producer

-

Tenor By Night

as Director

1987

The Brave Little Toaster

as Character Designer

1983

Paws

as Thanks

1988

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