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Gender: Male

Place of birth: Cornwall, New York, USA

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Movie Involvements: 20

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Biography

John Kahrs (born September 18, 1967) is an American actor, animator and film director. Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. He later moved to Pixar, where he worked on such films as A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. After ten years at Pixar, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled. In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman. In August 2013, he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects. In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd. In 2020, he co-directed Over the Moon with Glen Keane, which was released on Netflix the same year. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following year, but lost to Soul. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kahrs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Monsters, Inc.
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8

Monsters, Inc.

(2001) Animation
Tangled
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8

Tangled

(2010) Animation Supervisor
Frozen
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7

Frozen

(2013) Animation
Ratatouille
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8

Ratatouille

(2007) Animation
Toy Story 2
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8

Toy Story 2

(1999) Animation
Wreck-It Ralph
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7

Wreck-It Ralph

(2012) Animation
A Bug's Life
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7

A Bug's Life

(1998) Animation
The Incredibles
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8

The Incredibles

(2004) Animation

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2020 Additional Voices (voice)
2012 George (voice)
Year Character Movie/Tv

Directing

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2018 Writer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Visual Effects

Lighting

Year Role Movie/Tv
1996 Lighting Design
Year Role Movie/Tv

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