Chris Buck

Known for DirectingBorn 1958-02-24 (age 68)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.Read more

Movies & web series

A Woman's Point of View During Sex

Once Upon a Studio

The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic

Frozen II

Tarzan

Frozen

Amazing Stories

The Little Mermaid

Once Upon a Snowman

Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II

Frozen Fever

The Fox and the Hound

Pocahontas

The Brave Little Toaster

Olaf's Frozen Adventure

Oliver & Company

Surf's Up

Sport Goofy in Soccermania

The Rescuers Down Under

Wish

Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Next Door

The Black Cauldron

Family Dog

Winter

Surf's Up 2: WaveMania

Home on the Range

Palm Springs

Doctor of Doom

Not Your Time

Citizen Nation