Chris Buck
Chris Buck earns a living as an American director whose name sits in the credits rather than on the poster. He is also credited on 'Frozen II'. 1999 is the year the credit list begins. Whatever else appears, animation runs through the filmography. The career now covers more than 27 years. 'Frozen' is the calling card here.
Chris Buck
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Chris Buck earns a living as an American director whose name sits in the credits rather than on the poster. He is also credited on 'Frozen II'. 1999 is the year the credit list begins. Whatever else appears, animation runs through the filmography. The career now covers more than 27 years. 'Frozen' is the calling card here.
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How old is Chris Buck and where are they from?
Chris Buck is 68 years old, born on February 24, 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, USA.
What are the most famous roles of Chris Buck?
Chris Buck is best known for directing Frozen, Frozen II, Tarzan.
How many movies has Chris Buck directed?
Over a 31-year career (since 1995), Chris Buck has directed or written 7 films and worked on 1 TV shows.
What was Chris Buck's first movie?
The career of Chris Buck began with Pocahontas (1995).
What is Chris Buck's most recent movie or series?
Chris Buck's most recent release is Citizen Nation, which premiered on October 8, 2024.
What TV shows has Chris Buck created or directed?
On television, Chris Buck has appeared in Family Dog, Citizen Nation.
Chris Buck
1958-02-24 · Wichita, Kansas, USA
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.