Chris Buck
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, 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.
Most directed genres
Recurring actors
- Idina Menzel 3
- Jonathan Groff 3
- Josh Gad 3
- Kristen Bell 3
- Alan Tudyk 2
- Chris Williams 2
- Santino Fontana 2
The career in numbers
- US$ 690 mi Total budget from 5 film(s) with data
- US$ 3.6 bi Total box office from 5 film(s) with data
- US$ 138 mi Average budget from 5 film(s) with data
- US$ 716 mi Average box office from 5 film(s) with data
- 6.9 Average rating from 6 film(s) with data
- 5.2× Return on investment from 5 film(s) with data
Budget and box office do not exist for every film in our records. Averages are computed over the films that carry the figure, and the count beside each one says how many.
