Kirk Wise
Biography
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Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney
Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Wise worked as an animator on The Brave Little Toaster, and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog". At Disney, he began as an assistant animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company before eventually landing in the story department, where he was reunited with former CalArts classmate Gary Trousdale. After working as storyboard artists on The Rescuers Down Under and The Prince and the Pauper, Wise and Trousdale were responsible for helming the celebrated Beauty and the Beast (1991), the first animated feature to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture. They collaborated on two more features for Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire.
Most directed genres
Recurring actors
The career in numbers
- US$ 245 mi Total budget from 3 film(s) with data
- US$ 936 mi Total box office from 3 film(s) with data
- US$ 82 mi Average budget from 3 film(s) with data
- US$ 312 mi Average box office from 3 film(s) with data
- 7.3 Average rating from 3 film(s) with data
- 3.8× Return on investment from 3 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.
Films directed
| Film | Year | Budget | Box office | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bobbleheads: The Movie
|
2020 | — | — | 4.4 |
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
|
2001 | US$ 120 mi | US$ 186 mi | 7.0 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
|
1996 | US$ 100 mi | US$ 325 mi | 7.1 |
Beauty and the Beast
|
1991 | US$ 25 mi | US$ 425 mi | 7.7 |
