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Gender: Male

Place of birth: San Francisco, California, USA

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Movie Involvements: 18

TV Involvements: 1


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Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney Wise graduated from Palo Alto High School and went on to study character animation at California Institute of the Arts. Wise worked as an animator on The Brave Little Toaster, and Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories episode "Family Dog". At Disney, he began as an assistant animator on The Great Mouse Detective and Oliver & Company before eventually landing in 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. They collaborated on two more features for Disney, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. Wise also directed the English dubb of Hayo Miyazaki's Spirited Away. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kirk Wise, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Amazing Stories
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7

Amazing Stories

(1985) Animation
Beauty and the Beast
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8

Beauty and the Beast

(1991) Director
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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7

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

(1996) Director
Atlantis: The Lost Empire
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7
Bobbleheads: The Movie
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4

Bobbleheads: The Movie

(2020) Director
Oceans
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7

Oceans

(2010) Executive Producer
Child Proof
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0

Child Proof

(1984) Writer
Beauty and the Beast Sing-Along
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0

Acting

Directing

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
2010 Executive Producer
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Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2001 Story
1984 Writer
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Visual Effects

Year Role Movie/Tv
1985 Animation
1984 Animation
1983 Animation
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Crew

Year Role Movie/Tv
1983 Thanks
Year Role Movie/Tv

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