Animation(directors and producers)
by quietgiant2 | created - 01 Nov 2011 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public
1. Walt Disney
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney (née Call) and Elias Disney, a Canadian-born farmer and businessperson. He had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Walt moved with his parents to Kansas City at age seven, where he spent the majority of ...
2. Matt Groening
Writer | The Simpsons
Growing up in Portland, Oregon, Matt Groening did not particularly like school, which is what originally turned him towards drawing. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Los Angeles and started drawing a comic strip named "Life in Hell", which eventually became published in the newspaper where he worked. ...
3. Seth MacFarlane
Writer | Family Guy
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born in the small New England town of Kent, Connecticut, where he lived with his mother, Ann Perry (Sager), an admissions office worker, his father, Ronald Milton MacFarlane, a prep school teacher, and his sister, Rachael MacFarlane, now a voice actress and singer. He ...
4. Chuck Jones
Actor | Gremlins
Starting as a cel washer, Chuck Jones worked his way up to animator and then director at the animation division of Warner Bros. He is famous for creating such beloved cartoon characters as Wile E. Coyote, Henery Hawk, Pepé Le Pew, Marvin the Martian, Ralph Wolf, Road Runner, Sam Sheepdog, Sniffles,...
5. Tex Avery
Director | I Love to Singa
Tex Avery was a descendant of Judge Roy Bean and Daniel Boone, but all his grandma ever told him about it was "Don't ever mention you are kin to Roy Bean. He's a no good skunk!!" After graduating from North Dallas High School in 1927, Avery moved to Southern California in 1929 and got a job in the ...
6. René Goscinny
Writer | Astérix & Obélix contre César
René Goscinny was a French comic book writer, of Polish-Jewish descent. His parents were Stanislaw Simkha Goscinny and Anna "Hanna" Beresniak-Goscinna. The family name Goscinny means "hospitable" in the Polish language. Stanislaw was a chemical engineer from Warsaw, and Anna was from a small ...
7. Lotte Reiniger
Director | Silhouetten
Lotte Reiniger was born on June 2, 1899 in Berlin, Germany. She was a director and writer, known for Silhouetten (1936), Der Graf von Carabas (1935) and Lotte Reiniger - The Fairy Tale Films (1961). She was married to Carl Koch. She died on June 19, 1981 in Dettenhausen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
8. Émile Cohl
Director | L'agent de poche
Pioneering animator Emile Cohl was born Emile Eugène Jean Louis Courtet in Paris, France, in 1857. He began his career as a caricaturist, cartoonist and writer in his 20s, and in 1908 he was hired by the Gaumont film company as a writer. He soon also became a director, turning out comedies and ...
9. Bill Melendez
Producer | A Boy Named Charlie Brown
Bill Melendez was born on November 15, 1916 in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. He was a producer and actor, known for A Boy Named Charlie Brown (1969), A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965) and He's Your Dog, Charlie Brown (1968). He was married to Helen Antionette Huhn. He died on September 2, 2008 in ...
10. Émile Reynaud
Director | Le Rotisseur
Émile Reynaud was a French inventor born in Montreuil, Paris to Brutus Reynaud, an engineer who moved to Paris from Le Puy-en-Velay in 1842, and Marie-Caroline Bellanger, a former schoolteacher who educated Émile at home and taught him drawing and painting techniques. By 1862 he started his own ...
11. Winsor McCay
Writer | Gertie the Dinosaur
Like many pioneers, the work of 'Winsor McCay' has been largely superseded by successors such as Walt Disney and Max Fleischer but he more than earns a place in film history for being the American cinema's first great cartoon animator. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national ...
12. Wladyslaw Starewicz
Director | Zhitel nyeobitayemovo ostrova
Although his name nowadays means very little except to animation buffs (and even they have to be pretty well informed), Wladyslaw Starewicz ranks alongside Walt Disney, as one of the great animation pioneers, and his career started nearly a decade before Disney's. He became an animator by accident ...
13. Joseph Barbera
Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials
Joseph Roland Barbera was an American animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner William Hanna.
Barbera was born in an Italian-American family. His parents were barbershop-owner Vincent Barbera (1889-1965) and ...
14. William Hanna
Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials
William Hanna was an animator, film director, and television producer. He was the co-founder of the company Hanna-Barbera, with his longtime partner Joseph Barbera.
Hanna was born in an Irish-American family, son of William John Hanna (1873-1949) and his wife Avice Joyce Denby. He was born in ...
15. Wolfgang Reitherman
Director | The AristoCats
Wolfgang Reitherman was a German-born American animator who was one of Disney's Nine Old Men.
He began working for Disney in 1933, along with future Disney legends Ward Kimball and Milt Kahl. The three worked together on a number of classic Disney shorts.
Reitherman directed several Disney animated ...
16. Clyde Geronimi
Director | Cinderella
Clyde Geronimi was born on June 12, 1901 in Chiavenna, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on April 24, 1989 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
17. Don Bluth
Director | Anastasia
Don Bluth was one of the chief animators at Disney to come to the mantle after the great one's death. He eventually became the animation director for such films as The Rescuers (1977) and Pete's Dragon (1977). Unfortunately, the quality of animation that Disney was producing at this point was not ...
18. David Hand
Director | Bambi
David Hand was born on January 23, 1900 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Cuckoo. He was married to Josephine Hale Marks. He died on October 11, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.
19. Mauricio de Sousa
Writer | A Turma da Mônica em A Princesa e o Robô
Mauricio de Sousa was born on October 27, 1935 in Santa Isabel, São Paulo, Brazil. He is a writer and director, known for A Turma da Mônica em A Princesa e o Robô (1983), Turma da Mônica e a Estrelinha Mágica (1988) and Turma da Mônica em O Bicho-Papão e Outras...
20. Jim Henson
Soundtrack | The Muppet Show
Jim Henson never thought that he would make a name of himself in puppetry; it was merely a way of getting himself on television. The vehicle that achieved it was Sam and Friends (1955), a late-night puppet show that was on after the 11:00 news in Washington DC. It proved to be very popular and ...
21. Friz Freleng
Producer | ABC Afterschool Specials
Friz Freleng was born Isadore Freleng on August 21, 1906 in Kansas City, Missouri. With no formal training in drawing, his first job as an animator was with United Film Advancement Services in 1924 at the age of 17. The first work Friz is credited with was for Disney Studios where he worked as an ...
22. Hawley Pratt
Director | The Super 6
Hawley Pratt was born on June 9, 1911 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Super 6 (1966), Speedy Gonzales and The Pink Panther Show (1969). He was married to Lee. He died on March 2, 1999 in Thousand Oaks, California, USA.
23. Giuseppe Laganà
Director | Loulou de Montmartre
Giuseppe Laganà was born on July 28, 1944 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Loulou de Montmartre (2007), Sandokan - The Tiger Roars Again (2001) and L'ultimo dei Mohicani (2006). He died on January 3, 2016 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
24. Karel Zeman
Writer | Bláznova kronika
Karel Zeman was a Czech film director, screenwriter, and animator. He is primarily remembered for creating fantasy and science fiction films which combined live-action and animation.
In 1910, Zeman was born in the village of Ostromer in Austria-Hungary. The village is located near the town of Nova ...
25. Bretislav Pojar
Director | To See or Not to See
Bretislav Pojar was a Czech film director and animator, specializing in puppet animation.
Pojar was born in Susice (former name "Schüttenhofen"), a small factory town in Czechoslovakia. Since the 19th century, the main employer in town was a match factory.
Pojar started work as an animator in the ...
26. Jirí Trnka
Writer | Sen noci svatojánské
A graduate of Prague's School of Arts and Crafts, in 1936 he created a puppet theater, which was disbanded after the outbreak of WWII. During the war he designed stage sets and illustrated children's books. In 1945 he set up an animation unit with several collaborators at the Prague film studio; ...
27. Ben Washam
Director | Great Performances
American animator, noted for the crisp, angular style and sleek, fluid movement of his characters. A gent of considerable wit and good humour, Washam made significant contributions to Warner Brothers cartoons under the auspices of Chuck Jones between 1941 and 1963. Two of his trademarks were Bugs ...
28. Joe Ruby
Producer | Rumpelstiltskin
Joe Ruby was an American animator, television writer, television producer, and music editor from Los Angeles. Ruby and his partner Ken Spears were the co-creators of the "Scooby-Doo" franchise, and all five its original co-protagonists. They later co-founded the animation studio Ruby-Spears (1977-...
29. Robert McKimson
Director | Baggy Pants & the Nitwits
Robert McKimson was born on October 13, 1910. He started his career in animation, along with many others, as an artist for Walt Disney's Oswald the Rabbit in 1928. After Disney went to produce Mickey Mouse cartoons, Hugh Harman & Rudolph Ising went to Warner Brothers to direct and co-produce ...
30. Walter Lantz
Producer | Jolly Little Elves
Walter Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, film producer, and film director from New Rochelle, New York. He was the eponymous founder of the animation studio Walter Lantz Productions (1928-1972). The studio was initially famous for continuing the Oswald the Lucky Rabbit film series from ...
31. Wilfred Jackson
Director | Cinderella
Wilfred Jackson was born on January 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on August 7, 1988 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.
32. Phil Roman
Producer | The Simpsons
Phil Roman was born on December 21, 1930 in Fresno, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for The Simpsons (1989), Garfield in Disguise (1985) and Garfield's Babes and Bullets (1989). He has been married to Anita Roman since 1970.
33. James Algar
Director | The African Lion
James Algar studied at Stanford where he developed his skills as a cartoonist by drawing for the university's satirical magazine, The Chaparral. He joined the Disney Organisation in 1934, initially as animator. He directed the classic "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of Fantasia (1940), as well as ...
34. Hamilton Luske
Director | Cinderella
Hamilton Luske was an American animator and film director from Chicago, who spend most of his career at the Walt Disney Animation Studios. He served as the supervising director of several of Disney's films. He was also the supervising animator for the character of Snow White in the feature film "...
35. Makoto Shinkai
Writer | Suzume no Tojimari
Makoto Shinkai is a Japanese director, writer, producer, animator, editor, cinematographer, voice actor, manga artist and former graphic designer. Shinkai studied Japanese literature at Chuo University where he was a member of juvenile literature club where he drew picture books. In 1999, Shinkai ...
36. Yoshiyuki Tomino
Writer | Kidô senshi Z Gundam - A New Translation: Hoshi wo tsugumono
Yoshiyuki Tomino was born on November 5, 1941 in Odawara, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Mobile Suit Z Gundam: A New Translation - Heirs to the Stars (2004), Mobile Suit Z Gundam II: A New Translation - Lovers (2005) and Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).
37. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
38. Pete Docter
Writer | Up
Pete Docter is the Oscar®-winning director of "Monsters, Inc.," "Up," and "Inside Out," and Chief Creative Officer at Pixar Animation Studios. He is currently directing Pixar's feature film "Soul" with producer Dana Murray, which is set to release June 19, 2020.
Starting at Pixar in 1990 as the ...
39. Josh Cooley
Writer | Toy Story 4
Josh Cooley is known for Toy Story 4 (2019), Inside Out (2015) and Up (2009).
40. Brad Bird
Writer | The Incredibles
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird is an American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occasional voice actor, known for both animated and live-action films. Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four children of Marjorie A. (née Cross) and Philip Cullen Bird. His father worked in...
41. Gary Trousdale
Director | The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Gary Trousdale was born in La Crescenta, California. His fascination with animation was fostered as a child, where he drew cartoons from an elementary school age. He planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in ...
42. Alan Burnett
Producer | Batman Beyond
Alan Burnett was born in 1949 in the USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Batman Beyond (1999), Superman: The Animated Series (1996) and The Batman (2004).
43. Bruce Timm
Animation_department | Batman: The Animated Series
Bruce Timm is an American animator, writer, voice actor and director. He is known for creating Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Justice League and various installments of the DC Animated Universe. He co-created several DC characters including Harley Quinn and Livewire. He...
44. Eric Radomski
Producer | Batman: The Animated Series
Eric Radomski is known for Batman: The Animated Series (1992), Spawn (1997) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993).
45. Sam Liu
Director | Batman: The Killing Joke
Sam Liu is known for Batman: The Killing Joke (2016), The Batman (2004) and Beware the Batman (2013).
46. John Lasseter
Writer | Toy Story 2
Although born in Hollywood, John and his twin sister Johanna were raised in Whittier near Los Angeles. His parents were Jewell Mae (Risley), an art teacher, and Paul Eual Lasseter, a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership. His mother's profession contributed to his interest in animation and ...
47. Joe Ranft
Writer | The Brave Little Toaster
Joseph Ranft was an American writer, voice actor, animator, storyboard artist and magician. He worked for Disney and Pixar. He worked on The Lion King, The Brave Little Toaster, Toy Story, A Bug's Life, Cars, Monsters, Inc and Finding Nemo. He voiced in the many films he worked on, notably as ...
48. John Lounsbery
Animation_department | Lady and the Tramp
John Lounsbery was an American animator and animation director from Cincinnati, Ohio. He eventually became one of "Disney's Nine Old Men", a group of senior animators who were in charge of the Walt Disney Animation Studios from c. 1945 to 1977. Lounsbery died in 1976, with his death leading to the ...
49. Andrew Adamson
Director | Shrek 2
Andrew Adamson was born on December 1, 1966 in Auckland, New Zealand. He is a producer and director, known for Shrek 2 (2004), Shrek (2001) and The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). He has been married to Michelle Jonas since 2018. He was previously married to ...
50. Ralph Bakshi
Director | Wizards
Ralph Bakshi worked his way up from Brooklyn and became an animation legend. He was born on October 29, 1938, in Haifa, Israel, the son of Mina (Zlotin) and Eliezar Bakshi, and is of Krymchak Jewish descent. He was raised in Brownsville, after his family came to New York to escape World War II. ...
51. Hal Seeger
Writer | Killer Diller
Hal Seeger was born on May 16, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Killer Diller (1948), Hi De Ho (1947) and Dear Miss Gloria (1946). He was married to Beverly Arnold. He died on March 13, 2005 in New York City, New York, USA.
52. Max Fleischer
Producer | The Tantalizing Fly
Max Fleischer was an American animator, inventor, and film producer from Krakow. As an inventor, Fleischer is primarily known for inventing the rotoscope, an animation technique that allowed animators to draw realistic images and movements, based on live-action images. He later co-founded the ...
53. Dave Fleischer
Director | Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Dave Fleischer was an American film producer and director of animated films. He co-founded the animation studio Fleischer Studios (1929-1942) with his brother Max Fleischer. Dave is primarily remembered for directing the studio's only two feature films: "Gulliver's Travels" (1939) and "Mr. Bug Goes...
54. Adam Elliot
Director | Mary and Max.
Grew up on a shrimp farm in southern Australia together with two brothers, one sister and two parrots. He discerned his artistic abilities at an early age and spent five years studying photography, painting, pottery etc. In 1996 he began his studies at the Victorian College of the Arts where Uncle ...
55. Satoshi Kon
Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu
Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...
56. Isao Takahata
Director | Hotaru no haka
Isao Takahata was born on October 29, 1935 in Ise, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), Pom Poko (1994) and The Tale of The Princess Kaguya (2013). He died on April 5, 2018 in Tokyo, Japan.
57. Sylvain Chomet
Director | Les triplettes de Belleville
Sylvain Chomet was born on November 10, 1963 in Maisons-Laffitte, Seine-et-Oise [now Yvelines, Île-de-France], France. He is a director and writer, known for The Triplets of Belleville (2003), The Illusionist (2010) and Paris, I Love You (2006).
58. Michel Ocelot
Director | Kirikou et la sorcière
Michel Ocelot was born on October 27, 1943 in Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France. He is a writer and director, known for Kirikou and the Sorceress (1998), Kirikou and the Wild Beasts (2005) and Princes and Princesses (2000).
59. Henry Selick
Director | Coraline
Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator.
Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, son of Charles H. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised in Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. ...
60. Byron Howard
Director | Zootopia
Byron Howard was born on December 26, 1968 in Misawa, Japan. He is a director and producer, known for Zootopia (2016), Encanto (2021) and Tangled (2010).
61. Dean DeBlois
Writer | Lilo & Stitch
Dean DeBlois is a Canadian writer, director, and producer known best for having co-written and co-directed Disney's Lilo & Stitch (2002) and Dreamworks' How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both Oscar nominated. While working as an assistant animator and layout artist for Hinton Animation Studios ...
62. Chris Sanders
Writer | Lilo & Stitch
Born and raised in Colorado, Chris Sanders fell in love with animation at the age of ten after seeing Ward Kimball animated shorts on 'The Wonderful World of Disney'. He began drawing, and applied to CalArts after his grandmother told him about the animation program at the school. He majored in ...
63. Carlos Saldanha
Writer | Rio
Carlos Saldanha is a Brazilian director of animated films. He was the director of Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006), Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) and Rio (2011), and the co-director of Ice Age (2002) and Robots (2005).
Saldanha was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He left his hometown in 1991 to ...
64. Andrew Stanton
Writer | WALL·E
Andrew Stanton has been a major creative force at Pixar Animation Studios since 1990, when he became the second animator and ninth employee to join the company's elite group of computer animation pioneers. As Vice President, Creative he currently oversees all shorts and feature projects at the ...
65. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
66. Robert Zemeckis
Writer | Back to the Future
A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...
67. James T. Walker
Producer | The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries
James T. Walker was born on September 17, 1948 in Bowling Green, Missouri, USA. He is an assistant director and producer, known for The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries (1995), Samurai Jack (2001) and Batman: Mask of the Phantasm (1993).
68. Kazuya Tsurumaki
Director | Top wo Nerae 2!
Kazuya Tsurumaki was born on February 2, 1966 in Gosen, Japan. He is a director and writer, known for Gunbuster 2: Diebuster (2004), FLCL (2000) and Evangelion: 1.0 You Are (Not) Alone (2007).
69. Katsuhiro Ôtomo
Writer | Akira
Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation.
In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball. ...
70. Alex Toth
Animation_department | Space Ghost
Alex Toth was born on June 25, 1928 in New York City, New York, USA. Alex was a writer, known for Space Ghost (1966), Space Angel (1962) and Cartoon Superheroes Abridged (2015). Alex was married to Guyla Avery and Christina Schaber. Alex died on May 27, 2006 in Burbank, California, USA.
71. Al Brodax
Producer | Yellow Submarine
Al Brodax was born on February 14, 1926 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Yellow Submarine (1968), Beetle Bailey (1963) and Cool McCool (1966). He was married to Joan Greenberg. He died on November 24, 2016 in Danbury, Connecticut, USA.
72. Iwao Takamoto
Producer | Super Friends
Iwao Takamoto had recently graduated from Thomas Jefferson High School in Los Angeles when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. Iwao, his parents and siblings were interned as enemy aliens in the Manzanar internment camp where he learned the rudiments of drawing and animation from two fellow internees...
73. Jules Bass
Producer | The Hobbit
Producer, author, and composer, educated at NYU. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded a film production company in New York. He joined ASCAP in 1963 and collaborated musically with Edward Thomas and James Polack. His popular-song works include "Pinocchio," "...
74. Phil Lord
Writer | The Lego Movie
Philip A. Lord is an American filmmaker, producer and writer who collaborates with Christopher Miller. They both worked on Clone High, a cult classic animated sci-fi teen comedy show, The Lego Movie, 21 Jump Street, 22 Jump Street and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Into the Spider-Verse is ...
75. Nick Park
Writer | The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Nick Park was born on December 6, 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993).
76. Tom McGrath
Writer | Madagascar
Academy Award nominee Tom McGrath has been working in the entertainment industry for more than 30 years. McGrath directed the Academy Award and Golden Globe nominated film The Boss Baby, and its sequel, The Boss Baby: Family Business, his sixth film as director for a DreamWorks Animation title, the...
77. Chris Buck
Director | Frozen
Chris Buck is an animation film director from Wichita, Kansas. He directed the Disney animated films Tarzan, Frozen, Frozen Fever and Frozen II and Sony Pictures Animation's Surf's Up. He was a supervising animator for Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins for Pocahontas. He won Best Animated ...
78. Chris Williams
Actor | Frozen
Chris Williams was born on April 23, 1968 in Missouri, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Frozen (2013), Big Hero 6 (2014) and The Sea Beast (2022). He has been married to Astrid Sealey since July 10, 2004. They have two children.
79. Jennifer Lee
Writer | Frozen
Jennifer Lee was born on October 22, 1971 in Barrington, Rhode Island, USA. She is a producer and writer, known for Frozen (2013), Frozen II (2019) and Wreck-It Ralph (2012). She has been married to Alfred Molina since August 2021. She was previously married to Robert Joseph Monn.
80. Genndy Tartakovsky
Producer | Samurai Jack
Genndy Tartakovsky was born and raised in Moscow, USSR. He and his family moved to Chicago, IL when he was 7 years old, after his father defected to the US. His interest in comic books and animation led him to study animation at CalArts in Los Angeles. While he was there he produced two student ...
81. Charlie Bean
Director | Lady and the Tramp
Charlie Bean was born on August 10, 1970 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Lady and the Tramp (2019), The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) and Tron: Uprising (2012).
82. Nathan Greno
Actor | Tangled
Nathan Greno was born in Kenosha, Wisc., on the southwestern shores of Lake Michigan. As a child, he developed a love for drawing, which quickly evolved into a passion for visual storytelling. Influenced by comic books and newspaper comic strips, he started filling tablets of paper full of sketches...
83. Roger Allers
Director | The Lion King
Roger Allers is an American animated film director and writer who is known for co-directing the influential 1994 Disney musical film The Lion King. He also worked on Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin and The Little Mermaid. He was intended to direct the musical drama Kingdom of the Sun, which got ...
84. Tomm Moore
Producer | WolfWalkers
Tomm Moore was born on January 7, 1977 in Newry, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for Wolfwalkers (2020), Song of the Sea (2014) and The Secret of Kells (2009). He is married to Liselott Olofsson. They have one child.
85. Nora Twomey
Producer | WolfWalkers
Partner & Creative Director with Cartoon Saloon. ACADEMY AWARD® & GOLDEN GLOBE Nominated Director.
Nora's passion for visual storytelling began at an early age and has led her to explore the medium of animation with her collaborators in Cartoon Saloon in Kilkenny, Ireland. From the studio's early ...
86. Nina Paley
Director | Sita Sings the Blues
Nina Paley was born on May 3, 1968 in Champaign, Illinois, USA. She is a director and writer, known for Sita Sings the Blues (2008), Seder-Masochism (2018) and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014). She was previously married to Liam.
87. C.H. Greenblatt
Writer | SpongeBob SquarePants
C.H. Greenblatt was born on June 17, 1972 in Plano, Texas, USA as Carl Harvey Greenblatt. He is a writer and producer, known for Fish Hooks (2010), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and Chowder (2007). He attended the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in advertising. He was an art director ...
88. Stephen Hillenburg
Writer | SpongeBob SquarePants
Stephen McDannell Hillenburg is the creator of SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Nickelodeon's highest-rated cartoons for children and a staple of American television. He was born on August 21, 1961 in Fort Sill, a United States Army post in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Nancy (Dufour) Hillenburg and Kelly ...
89. Bill Plympton
Director | Cheatin'
Bill Plympton was born on April 30, 1946 in Portland, Oregon, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Cheatin' (2013), I Married a Strange Person! (1997) and Idiots and Angels (2008).
90. Mike Lazzo
Producer | Robot Chicken
Mike Lazzo was born on April 10, 1958 in LaGrange, Georgia, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Robot Chicken (2001), Primal (2019) and Rick and Morty (2013).
91. Lee Unkrich
Editor | Coco
Lee Unkrich is an Academy Award-winning director at Pixar Animation Studios. He most recently directed Disney.Pixar's critically-acclaimed "Coco", which received the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature and Best Song.
As the director of Disney.Pixar's "Toy Story 3," Lee was also awarded an ...
92. Pierre Coffin
Director | Despicable Me 2
Pierre-Louis Padang Coffin is a French animator, voice actor, director, producer, and writer best known for co-directing four films in the Despicable Me franchise and being the voice of the Minions, which won him the Kids Family Award at the 10th Seiyu Awards. Coffin was born in 1967 in France to ...
93. Chris Renaud
Actor | Despicable Me 2
Director Chris Renaud has established himself as a heavyweight in the world of animation following the phenomenal box office success of recent movies Despicable Me (2010), Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012) and Despicable Me 2 (2013). Along with Pierre Coffin and Eric Guillon, he also co-created the ...
94. Stéphane Bernasconi
Art_department | The Adventures of Tintin
Stéphane Bernasconi is known for The Adventures of Tintin (1991), Famille Pirate (1999) and Blake et Mortimer (1997).
95. Paul Grimault
Director | La bergère et le ramoneur
Paul Grimault was born on March 23, 1905 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird (1952), The King and the Mockingbird (1980) and The Little Soldier (1948). He died on March 29, 1994 in Le Mesnil-Saint-Denis, ...
96. Philippe Leclerc
Animation_department | The Animals of Farthing Wood
Philippe Leclerc is known for The Animals of Farthing Wood (1993), Princess of the Sun (2007) and Les enfants de la pluie (2003).
97. René Laloux
Writer | La planète sauvage
René Laloux was born on July 13, 1929 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Fantastic Planet (1973), Time Masters (1982) and Les escargots (1966). He died on March 14, 2004 in Angoulême, Charente, France.
98. Rob DenBleyker
Writer | Cyanide and Happiness Shorts
Rob DenBleyker is an American cartoonist, animator, illustrator, voice actor, director, writer, and producer. He's most known for co-creating the Cyanide and Happiness franchise, along with Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. He's also known for co-creating, writing, directing, animating...
99. Dave McElfatrick
Writer | The Cyanide & Happiness Show
Dave McElfatrick is an Irish cartoonist, illustrator, voice actor, director, writer, producer, and composer. He's most known for co-creating the Cyanide and Happiness franchise, along with Kris Wilson, Rob DenBleyker, and Matt Melvin. He's also known for co-creating, writing, directing, animating, ...
100. Alê Abreu
Director | Perlimps
Alê Abreu is known for Perlimps (2022), Espantalho (1998) and The Boy and the World (2013).
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