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David Bowers (born 1970)[1] is an English animator, film director, screenwriter and voice actor.

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David Bowers
Bowers at the 2006 BAFTAs in 2007
Born	1970 (age 51–52) Cheshire, England
Occupation	Animator, film director, screenwriter, voice actor
Years active	1988–present

Early life

Bowers studied fine art at Chester School of Art and animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design. His first job was on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, as an inbetweener, under director Richard Williams.

Career

After Roger Rabbit, Bowers worked at Cosgrove Hall on the cult favourite television shows Danger Mouse and Duckula before moving to London to work for Steven Spielberg's Amblimation studio. He worked as an animator on An American Tail: Fievel Goes West, before going freelance to work on advertisements and features. Bowers later returned to Amblimation, to work on early story development, and as a supervising animator on Balto.

With the closing of Amblimation, and the founding of DreamWorks Animation, Bowers moved to Glendale, California in 1997, to work as a story artist on The Prince of Egypt and The Road to El Dorado. It was during this period that he met Aardman's Nick Park and Peter Lord, who asked him to help storyboard Aardman's first feature length film, the critically acclaimed Chicken Run. He was ultimately credited as storyboard supervisor.

After Chicken Run, Bowers moved between Los Angeles and Bristol, working on several DreamWorks and Aardman projects, including the hit 3D animated comedy Shark Tale and the Oscar winning film from Wallace and Gromit, The Curse of the Were-Rabbit, before directing Aardman's first CGI feature, Flushed Away, with Sam Fell.

He wrote/directed a Big screen CGI adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's classic Astro Boy for Imagi Animation Studios and Summit Entertainment, that was released in October 2009.[2] Bowers directed Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules, his first live action film, which was released in cinemas on 25 March 2011.[3][4]

He also directed the third film in the series, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days (2012), as well as the fourth film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul (2017). Bowers was developing a live action film adaptation of the popular Nickelodeon show, Rugrats for Paramount Pictures, under the production of Paramount Players in April 2019, for a January 2021 release, before being pulled from the schedule in November 2019.[5][6]

Filmography

Film

Feature-length film

Year	Film	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Notes
2006	Flushed Away	Yes	No	No	Co-directed with Sam Fell; Also additional screenplay material and additional voices
2009	Astro Boy	Yes	Yes	No	Also voice of Mike the Fridge
2011	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules	Yes	No	No
2012	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	Yes	No	No
2017	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	Yes	Yes	Yes
2022	The Brilliant World of Tom Gates	Yes	Yes	Yes	Filming; Co-directed with Liz Pichon

Short film

Year	Film	Notes
2010	The RRF in New Recruit	Short film based on his film "Astro Boy"; Also voice of Mike the Fridge
	Astro Boy vs. The Junkyard Pirates	Short film based on his film "Astro Boy"

As animator

Year	Film	Role
1988	Who Framed Roger Rabbit	Inbetween artist
1991	An American Tail: Fievel Goes West	Animator
1992	FernGully: The Last Rainforest
1993	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story
1995	Balto	Storyboard artist, supervising animator: "Rosy"
1998	The Prince of Egypt	Additional storyboard artist
2000	The Road to El Dorado	Storyboard artist
	Chicken Run	Storyboard supervisor
2004	Shark Tale	Storyboard artist
2005	Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit	Senior storyboard artist

Television

Year	Film	Role
1989	Count Duckula	Animator (1 episode)
1992	Danger Mouse	Animator (4 episodes)

References

External links

• David Bowers at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] David Bowers

David Bowers (* 28. Juni 1970 in Cheshire, England) ist ein britischer Filmregisseur, Drehbuchautor und Synchronsprecher.

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- [en] David Bowers (director)

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[es] David Bowers

David Bowers es un animador y director de cine originario de Stockport, Gran Mánchester, en el Reino Unido.

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