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Chris Buck

Directing
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.
Known For 6 titles
Surf's Up (2007) subtitle poster
Surf's Up
2007 Movie
as Filmmaker (voice)
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Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II (2020) subtitle poster
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
2020 TV
as Self
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Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (2015) subtitle poster
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015 Movie
as Himself
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The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic (2014) subtitle poster
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2014 Movie
as Self
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Not Your Time (2010) subtitle poster
Not Your Time
2010 Movie
as Himself
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Doctor of Doom (1979) subtitle poster
Doctor of Doom
1979 Movie
as Pepe
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