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

Kirk Wise
Born	(1963-08-24) August 24, 1963 (age 59) San Francisco, California
Occupation	Film director, animator, screenwriter, producer
Years active	1985–present

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 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 Great Mouse Detective	1986	Assistant animator
Amazing Stories	1987	Principal animator (1 episode)
Sport Goofy in Soccermania		Animator
The Brave Little Toaster		Animation director (development)
Oliver & Company	1988	Writer, animating assistant
Cranium Command	1989	Voice of Hypothalamus, opening sequence director
The Rescuers Down Under	1990	Storyboard artist
The Prince and the Pauper
Beauty and the Beast	1991	Director, creative consultant (uncredited)
Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey	1993	Executive producer
The Lion King	1994	Additional story material
The Hunchback of Notre Dame	1996	Director
Atlantis: The Lost Empire	2001	Director, story
Spirited Away	2002	Director, ADR Director (U.S. production)
Open Season	2006	Special thanks
Oceans	2009	Executive Producer: Disneynature
Waking Sleeping Beauty		Himself, caricaturist
2012 Disney History Connections: Colonial America	2012	Director (short)
Chimpanzee		Creative consultant
Aldabra: Once Upon an Island	2015
Beauty and the Beast	2017
Bobbleheads: The Movie	2020	Director
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank	2022	Additional voices
Galaxy Gas[1][2]	TBA

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	N	N	N
Mary Kay Bergman	N	N
Corey Burton		N	N
Jim Cummings		N	N
Bill Farmer	N	N
Tony Jay	N	N
Patrick Pinney	N	N	N
Phil Proctor	N	N
Rodger Bumpass		N	N
Kath Soucie	N	N
David Ogden Stiers	N	N	N
Frank Welker	N	N	N

References

External links

• Kirk Wise at IMDb
• Kirk Wise at Filmbug

На других языках

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[ru] Уайз, Кирк

Кирк Уайз (род. 24 августа 1963 года) — американский режиссёр-мультипликатор, наиболее известный как режиссёр полнометражных мультфильмов «Красавица и Чудовище» (1991), «Горбун из Нотр-Дама» (1996) и «Атлантида: Затерянный мир» (2001). Все эти фильмы он снял совместно с Гари Труздейлом.

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