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Aliases: Phillip Bradley Bird , Baddaxe Bradley Bird , Bloody Bradley Bird , Брэд Берд , แบรด เบิร์ด , 布拉德·伯德 , ブラッド・バード , 브래드 버드 , براد بيرد

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Kalispell, Montana, USA

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Movie Involvements: 49

TV Involvements: 7


Most Famous Work

Biography

Philip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both live-action and animation. Bird was born in Montana and grew up in Oregon. He developed an interest in the art of animation early on, and completed his first short subject by age 14. Bird sent the film to Walt Disney Productions, leading to an apprenticeship from the studio's Nine Old Men. He attended the California Institute of the Arts in the late 1970s, and worked for Disney shortly thereafter. In the 1980s, Bird worked in film development with various studios. He co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg, including its spin-off (based on a segment written by Bird for the show), the widely panned animated sitcom Family Dog. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons. He directed the animated film The Iron Giant (1999); though acclaimed, it was a box-office bomb. Bird moved to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). They earned Bird two Academy Awards for Best Animated Feature wins and Best Original Screenplay nominations. He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with similarly successful Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), he then directed Disney's Tomorrowland (2015). He returned to Pixar to develop Incredibles 2 (2018), which became the second-highest-grossing animated film of all time during its theatrical run, and earned him another nomination for the Academy Award. Bird has a reputation for supervising his projects to a high degree of detail. He advocates for creative freedom and the possibilities of animation, and has criticized its stereotype as children's entertainment, or classification as a genre, rather than an art. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brad Bird, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

Most Famous Work

The Simpsons
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8

The Simpsons

(1989) Executive Consultant
Ratatouille
Average
8

Ratatouille

(2007) Story
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol
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7
Amazing Stories
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7

Amazing Stories

(1985) Writer
The Incredibles
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8

The Incredibles

(2004) Writer
Incredibles 2
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7

Incredibles 2

(2018) Writer
Tomorrowland
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6

Tomorrowland

(2015) Producer
The Iron Giant
Average
8

The Iron Giant

(1999) Story

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2022 Self (archive footage)
Self
2019 Self
2018 Edna Mode (voice)
Edna 'E' Mode / Additional Voices (voice)
2016 Himself
2015 Self - Director 'The Incredibles' and 'Ratatouille'
Monorail Announcer (voice)
2011 Himself - Writer / Director - The Incredibles
2009 Self (archive footage)
2008 Self
2007 Self
Self
Self
Ambrister Minion (voice)
2005 Self
Self
2004 Edna 'E' Mode (voice)
2000 Himself
1985 Scientist #2
Family Dog (Voice)
1979 Don Carlo's Voice/Bystander's Voice
Edna Mode
Year Character Movie/Tv

Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
2022 Thanks
2009 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

Writing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Executive Producer
2015 Producer
2007 Executive Producer
2005 Executive Producer
Executive Producer
1989 Executive Consultant
Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Directing

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
1993 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

Visual Effects

Year Role Movie/Tv
1980 Animation
Year Role Movie/Tv

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