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Rich Moore

Rich Moore
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Born (1963-05-10) May 10, 1963 (age 53)
Oxnard, California
Nationality American
Alma mater California Institute of the Arts
Occupation Animation director, film director, screenwriter, voice actor
Notable work The Simpsons
The Critic
Futurama
Wreck-It Ralph
Zootopia

Rich Moore (born May 10, 1963) is an American film and television animation director, voice actor and a creative partner at both Rough Draft Studios and Walt Disney Animation Studios. He is best known for his work on the animated television shows The Simpsons, The Critic and Futurama, and for directing the Disney animated film Wreck-It Ralph (2012) and co-directing Zootopia (2016). He is a two-time Emmy Award winner, a two-time Annie Award winner, and an Academy Award nominee.

Moore was born and raised in Oxnard, California. He studied film and video at the California Institute of the Arts, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1987. While there, he narrated Jim Reardon's 1986 student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.

After graduating from CalArts, Moore worked for Ralph Bakshi on CBS's Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, co-writing all 13 season 1 episodes in 1987. Moore was one of the original three directors of The Simpsons, directing 17 episodes in the first 5 seasons from 1990 to 1993, including some of the show's most famous episodes: "Flaming Moe's", "Itchy and Scratchy: The Movie" and "Marge vs. the Monorail". He won a 1991 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for The Simpsons, and was the sequence director on The Simpsons Movie in 2007.


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