Chris Buck

Chris Buck
Buck at the D23 expo in August 2015
Born	1960/1961 (age 56–57) Wichita, Kansas, United States
Occupation	Animator, film director, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	1978–present
Known for	Tarzan Surf's Up Frozen
Spouse(s)	Shelley
Children	3

Chris Buck (born 1960/1961) is an American film director known for co-directing Tarzan (1999), Surf's Up (2007) (which was nominated for the 2008 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), and Frozen (2013) (which won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2014). He also worked as a supervising animator on Home on the Range (2004) and Pocahontas (1995).

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck was inspired to explore animation by the first film he ever saw in a movie theatre as a child: Disney's Pinocchio. His family eventually moved to Placentia, California, where he graduated from El Dorado High School.

Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988 to 1993. At CalArts, Buck became friends with both John Lasseter and Michael Giaimo, whom he would work with many years later on Frozen. He began his career as an animator with Disney in 1978.

Besides his work as a co-director on Tarzan and Frozen, Buck's other credits at Disney also 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 (1990) and Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound (1981).