Christopher James "Chris" Buck is an American film director and animator who has worked for Walt Disney Animation Studios since 1978. He is most well-known for directing Tarzan (along with Kevin Lima) and Frozen and its sequel (both along with Jennifer Lee). Outside of Disney, he co-directed the 2007 Sony computer-animated feature Surf's Up, along with Ash Brannon.
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Filmography
Year | Film | Position |
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1981 | The Fox and the Hound | Animator: Tod's Mother |
1982 | Fun with Mr. Future | Animator |
1983 | Mickey's Christmas Carol | Additional Animator |
1985 | The Black Cauldron | Animator |
1987 | Sport Goofy in Soccermania | Supervising Animator |
1987 | The Brave Little Toaster | Character Designer |
1988 | Oliver & Company | Character Animator |
1988 | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Animator |
1989 | The Little Mermaid | Character Designer |
1990 | The Rescuers Down Under | Character Designer/Visual Development Artist |
1995 | Pocahontas | Character Designer/Visual Development Artist/Supervising Animator: Percy/Grandmother Willow/Wiggins |
1999 | Tarzan | Director |
2001 | The Legend of Tarzan | Director |
2004 | Home on the Range | Supervising Animator: Maggie |
2004 | Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas | Animator |
2013 | Frozen | Director/Creative Leadership/Art Director |
2014 | Big Hero 6 | Creative Leadership |
2015 | Frozen Fever | Director/Art Director |
2016 | Zootopia | Creative Leadership |
2019 | Frozen II | Director/Creative Leadership/Art Director |
2020 | Once Upon a Snowman | Creative Consultant |
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Chris Buck with Ash Brannon at the Surf's Up premiere in May 2007.
Chris Buck with an ice sculpture of Olaf.
Buck at the premiere of Disney's Frozen at the El Capitan Theatre in November 2013.
Chris Buck, Jennifer Lee, and Peter Del Vecho at the 86th annual Academy Awards in March 2014.
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Trivia
- The Frozen II character Ryder is named after Chris Buck’s oldest son, who died shortly before the premiere of the original Frozen.
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