Kirk Wise

Kirk Wise (born August 24, 1963) is an American film director, animator, producer and screenwriter best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wise has directed such Disney animated films as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Atlantis: The Lost Empire and Enatacho. He also directed the English-language translation of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away.

Career[]

Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Early in his career, Wise worked as an animator on Disney's Sport Goofy in Soccermania (1987), The Black Cauldron (1985), The Great Mouse Detective (1986) and The Brave Little Toaster (1987), as well as Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog".

Returning to Walt Disney Feature Animation, he began work on The Great Mouse Detective (1986) as an assistant animator, but eventually joined 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.

Filmography[]

Title	Year	Role
The Black Cauldron	1985	Assistant animator (uncredited)
The Great Mouse Detective	1986	Assistant animator
Amazing Stories	1987	Principal animator (1 episode)
Sport Goofy in Soccermania		Animator
The Brave Little Toaster		Development animator
Oliver & Company	1988	Story writer / Animating assistant / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Cranium Command	1989	Voice of Hypothalamus, opening sequence director
The Little Mermaid		Storyboard artist (uncredited)
All Dogs Go to Heaven		Storyboard artist (uncredited)
The Rescuers Down Under	1990	Storyboard artist / Character designer (uncredited)
The Prince and the Pauper	1990	Storyboard artist
Beauty and the Beast	1991	Director / Creative consultant (uncredited)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey	1993	Executive producer
The Lion King	1994	Additional story material / Creative consultant (uncredited)
Pocahontas	1995	Production assistant (uncredited)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1996	Director
Atlantis: The Lost Empire	2001	Director, story writer
Ice Age	2002	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Spirited Away	2002	Director, ADR director (U.S. production)
Robots	2005	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Open Season	2006	Special thanks / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Enatacho	2006	Director, story collaborative Disney faning animated film
Oceans	2009	Executive producer: Disneynature
Waking Sleeping Beauty	2009	Himself, caricaturist
2012 Disney History Connections: Colonial America	2012	Director (short)
Chimpanzee	2012	Creative consultant
Aldabra: Once Upon an Island	2015	Creative consultant
Rock Dog	2016	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Beauty and the Beast	2017	Creative consultant
The Hampster Movie	2019	Story writer
Metaway	2019	Director, story writer
Bobbleheads: The Movie	2020	Director
Ron's Gone Wrong	2021	Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	2022	Additional voices / Special thanks / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
Once Upon a Studio	2023	Special thanks / Animator (uncredited)
Galaxy Gas''^[1]^[2]	TBA	Director

Collaborations[]

Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.

	Beauty and the Beast	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Atlantis: The Lost Empire
Jack Angel
Mary Kay Bergman
Corey Burton
Jim Cummings
Bill Farmer
Tony Jay
Patrick Pinney
Phil Proctor
Kath Soucie
David Ogden Stiers
Frank Welker

References[]

External links[]

Kirk Wise on IMDb
Kirk Wise at Filmbug

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List of feature films
Released	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) • Pinocchio (1940) • Fantasia (1940) • Dumbo (1941) • Bambi (1942) • Saludos Amigos (1942) • The Three Caballeros (1944) • Make Mine Music (1946) • Fun and Fancy Free (1947) • Melody Time (1948) • The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949) • Cinderella (1950) • Alice in Wonderland (1951) • Peter Pan (1953) • Lady and the Tramp (1955) • Sleeping Beauty (1959) • One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961) • The Sword in the Stone (1963) • The Jungle Book (1967) • The Aristocats (1970) • Robin Hood (1973) • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (1977) • The Rescuers (1977) • The Fox and the Hound (1981) • The Black Cauldron (1985) • The Great Mouse Detective (1986) • Oliver & Company (1988) • The Little Mermaid (1989) • The Rescuers Down Under (1990) • Beauty and the Beast (1991) • Aladdin (1992) • The Lion King (1994) • Pocahontas (1995) • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996) • Hercules (1997) ° Mulan (1998) • Tarzan (1999) • Fantasia 2000 (1999) • Dinosaur (2000) • The Emperor's New Groove (2000) • Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001) • Lilo & Stitch (2002) • Treasure Planet (2002) • Brother Bear (2003) • Home on the Range (2004) • Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • The Princess and the Frog (2009) • Tangled (2010) • Winnie the Pooh (2011) • Wreck-It Ralph (2012) • Frozen (2013) • Big Hero 6 (2014) • Zootopia (2016) • Moana (2016) • Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)
Upcoming	GoGo Tomago (2019) • Frozen 2 (2019) • Shank (2020) • Raya and the Last Dragon (2020)
Associated productions	The Reluctant Dragon (1941) • Victory Through Air Power (1943) • Song of the South (1946) • So Dear to My Heart (1948) • Mary Poppins (1964) • Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) • Pete's Dragon (1977) • Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) • Enchanted (2007) • Mary Poppins Returns (2018)

People
Executives	Edwin Catmull • Roy Conli • Roy E. Disney • Walt Disney • Don Hahn • Jeffrey Katzenberg • John Lasseter • Jennifer Lee • Peter Schneider • Thomas Schumacher • David Stainton
Disney's Nine Old Men	Les Clark • Marc Davis • Ollie Johnston • Milt Kahl • Ward Kimball • Eric Larson • John Lounsbery • Wolfgang Reitherman • Frank Thomas

Related topics
History	Disney animators' strike • Disney Renaissance
Methods and technologies	12 basic principles of animation • Xerography • Computer Animation Production System • Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life • Multiplane camera
Documentaries	Frank and Ollie (1995) • The Sweatbox (2001) • Dream On Silly Dreamer (2005) • Waking Sleeping Beauty (2009)
Other Disney animation units	Disney Television Animation • Lucasfilm Animation • Marvel Animation • Pixar Animation Studios • 20th Century Fox Animation • Blue Sky Studios • Disneytoon Studios (defunct) • Circle 7 (defunct) • DiC Entertainment (divested)
Miscellaneous	Alice Comedies • Laugh-O-Gram Studio • Industrial Light & Magic • List of Disney animated shorts • List of Disney theatrical animated features (unproduced • unproduced 20th Century Fox Animation projects) • Oswald the Lucky Rabbit • Mickey Mouse (film series) • Silly Symphonies • Once Upon a Time • Kingdom Hearts III

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