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Director

Chris Buck

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

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →
Wish 2023
Frozen II 2019
Frozen 2013
Surf's Up 2007
Tarzan 1999