
Chris Buck
Director · b. 1958 · 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.
Movies6
Movie6.5AnimationComedyWith a documentary crew in tow, Cody Maverick—a young surfer from Antarctica—travels to the pacific for his first professional competition. Determined to earn respect and live up to his idol, Big Z, Cody pushes himself to the limit. But all that changes when an encounter with a laid-back local forces him to rethink his values.
Surf's Up
2007 · 2.8K votes
Movie7.8DocumentaryA behind-the-scene look at the origins and evolution of the Academy Award-winning film.
The Story of Frozen: Making a Disney Animated Classic
2014 · 34 votes
Movie1.0MusicComedyA failed screenwriter's suicide threat turns out to be his best sales pitch.
Not Your Time
2010 · 1 votes
Movie6.3AnimationDocumentaryThe story of the rocky road that Walt Disney took to get his interpretation of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" (1937) to the silver screen.
Behind the Magic: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
2015 · 5 votes
Movie4.8HorrorComedyA doctor goes to a dinner party where he's made fun of and soon afterwards returns home and sends a monster to attack the people.
Doctor of Doom
1979 · 18 votes
- Movie10.0Drama
A black comedy about a couple living together caught from the woman's point of view. An absolute must for men who want to learn something about sex life.
A Woman's Point of View During Sex
1993 · 1 votes
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TV7.0DocumentaryThe team behind Frozen II open their doors to cameras for a six-part documentary series to reveal the hard work, heart, and collaboration it takes to create one of the most highly-anticipated films in Walt Disney Animation Studios’ near-century of moviemaking. Cameras were there to capture an eye-opening - and at times jaw-dropping - view of the challenges and the breakthroughs, the artistry, creativity and the complexity of creating the #1 animated feature of all time.
Into the Unknown: Making Frozen II
2020 · 211 votes