Kirk Wise
Known for DirectingBorn 1963-08-24San Francisco, California, USA
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Kirk Wise is an American animator, director and producer known for his work at Disney
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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.
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Known for
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
2022 · as Additional Voices (voice)
Waking Sleeping Beauty
2009 · as Self
Howard
2018 · as Self (archive footage)
The Sweatbox
2002 · as Self
The Art of 'Spirited Away'
2003 · as Himself
The Making of 'Atlantis: The Lost Empire'
2002 · as Self - Director
Beyond Beauty: The Untold Stories Behind the Making of Beauty and the Beast
2010 · as Self