Chris Buck

Chris Buck

Born: February 24, 1958
in 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.

Movies for Chris Buck...

Title: Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
Character: Self
Released: June 26, 2020
Type: TV
The team behind Frozen II open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to reveal the hard work, heart, and collaboration it takes to create one of the most highly-anticipated films in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ near-century of moviemaking. Cameras were there to capture an eye-opening - and at times jaw-dropping - view of the challenges and the breakthroughs, the artistry, creativity and the complexity of creating the #1 animated feature of all time.
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Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Title: Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Character: Himself
Released: December 13, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) to the silver screen.
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The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
Title: The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
Character: Himself
Released: September 15, 2014
Type: Movie
A behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.
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Not Your Time
Title: Not Your Time
Character: Himself
Released: September 24, 2010
Type: Movie
A failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.
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Surf's Up
Title: Surf's Up
Character: Filmmaker (voice)
Released: June 8, 2007
Type: Movie
A young surfer enters his first contest, hoping a win will earn him respect. But an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.
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A Woman's Point of View During Sex
Title: A Woman's Point of View During Sex
Character: The guy
Released: February 7, 1993
Type: Movie
A black comedy about a couple living together caught from the woman's point of view. An absolute must for men who want to learn something about sex life.
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Doctor of Doom
Title: Doctor of Doom
Character: Pepe
Released: July 10, 1979
Type: Movie
A doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.