Directing
Community Rating
6.6
1 Ratist review
Born
February 24, 1958 (age 68)
Born 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.

Citizen Nation
as Executive Producer
2024

Wish
as Story, Director
2023

Once Upon a Studio
as Thanks
2023

Once Upon a Snowman
as Creative Consultant
2020

Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
as Self
2020

Frozen II
as Story, Director
2019

Olaf's Frozen Adventure
as Characters
2017

Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
as Himself
2015

Frozen Fever
as Director, Writer
2015

The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
as Self
2014

Frozen
as Director, Story
2013

Not Your Time
as Himself, Animation
2010

Surf's Up
as Filmmaker (voice), Screenplay, Director
2007

Home on the Range
as Supervising Animator
2004

Tarzan
as Director
1999

Pocahontas
as Supervising Animator, Story
1995

Family Dog
as Director
1993
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
as The guy
1993

Next Door
as Thanks
1990

Palm Springs
as Thanks
1989