Chris Buck

Born: 1958-02-24

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.


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Released: 2007-06-08

A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter...

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The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic

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Released: 2014-09-15

A behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.

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Doctor of Doom

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Released: 1979-07-10

A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and...

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Not Your Time

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Released: 2010-09-24

A failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.

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Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

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Released: 2015-12-13

The story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of "Snow White and...

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Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II

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First aired: 2020-06-26

The team behind Frozen II open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to...

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