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Chris Buck

Chris Buck

Known For Directing
Birthday Feb 24, 1958 (67)
Birthplace Wichita, Kansas, USA
Popularity 1.0 (history)
Updated Aug 08, 2025
Entry Date Apr 13, 2024
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Biography

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, Gra ... ndmother 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

Filmography

Surf's Up

Surf's Up

2007

as Filmmaker (voice)

Doctor of Doom

Doctor of Doom

1979

as Pepe

Wish

Wish

2023

Story

Once Upon a Studio

Once Upon a Studio

2023

Thanks

Once Upon a Snowman

Once Upon a Snowman

2020

Creative Consultant

Frozen II

Frozen II

2019

Story

Olaf's Frozen Adventure

Olaf's Frozen Adventure

2017

Characters

Frozen Fever

Frozen Fever

2015

Writer

Frozen

Frozen

2013

Story

Not Your Time

Not Your Time

2010

Animation

Surf's Up

Surf's Up

2007

Screenplay

Home on the Range

Home on the Range

2004

Supervising Animator

Pocahontas

Pocahontas

1995

Supervising Animator, Story

Next Door

Next Door

1990

Thanks

Palm Springs

Palm Springs

1989

Thanks

The Little Mermaid

The Little Mermaid

1989

Character Designer

Oliver & Company

Oliver & Company

1988

Animation

Winter

Winter

1988

Thanks

The Brave Little Toaster

The Brave Little Toaster

1987

Character Designer

The Black Cauldron

The Black Cauldron

1985

Animation

Wish

Wish

2023

Director

Frozen II

Frozen II

2019

Director

Frozen Fever

Frozen Fever

2015

Director

Frozen

Frozen

2013

Director

Surf's Up

Surf's Up

2007

Director

Tarzan

Tarzan

1999

Director

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Organization Category Movie
Television Credits

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Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II

as Self

Episodes: 6

First Aired: Jun 26, 2020

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