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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.
Kirk Wise is a director who has worked on several Disney animated features, such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Spirited Away. He was born in 1963 in San Francisco, California, and has won three awards and received three nominations for his work.
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Kirk Wise is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, and producer, 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 (alongside Gary Trousdale). He also directed the English-language translation of Hay...
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.
Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney. He co-directed Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire, and also directed the English dub of Spirited Away.
Aug 11, 2020 · On this episode of Collider Connected, animation legends Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale talk about their storied careers, which include directing the 1991 classic Beauty and the Beast, along with...
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Jun 15, 2001 · Atlantis: The Lost Empire: Directed by Gary Trousdale, Kirk Wise. With Corey Burton, Claudia Christian, Michael J. Fox, James Garner. A young linguist named Milo Thatch joins an intrepid group of explorers to find the mysterious lost continent of Atlantis.
Gary Trousdale is an American animator, film director, screenwriter and storyboard artist. He is best known for directing films such as Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn .
