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.
KirkWise (born August 24, 1963) is an American film director, animator and screenwriter best known for his work at Walt Disney Animation Studios. Wise...
(1996), and Atlantis: The Lost Empire (2001). He frequently works with KirkWise and Don Hahn. Trousdale was raised in La Crescenta, north of Glendale...
1992. Additionally, Beauty and the Beast directors Gary Trousdale and KirkWise were hired to perform some additional rewrites to the script and story...
executive producer of its English-dubbed version. Lasseter then hired KirkWise as director and Donald W. Ernst as producer, while screenwriters Cindy...
directed by Brian Kirk and written by Nicholas Jacobson-Larson and Dalton Leeb. It stars Laurel Marsden, Emma Thompson, Judy Greer, Gaia Wise and Marc Menchaca...
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Command 1989 Left Ventricle Jerry Rees Gary Trousdale (opening sequence) KirkWise (opening sequence) Short film All I Want for Christmas 1991 Tony Boer...
before its November 1991 wide release, Beauty and the Beast, directed by KirkWise and Gary Trousdale, was an unprecedented critical and commercial success...
animated film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and directed by KirkWise and Gary Trousdale, with a screenplay by Linda Woolverton, and songs by...
and is dedicated to him. In May 2020, Beauty and the Beast co-director KirkWise said, "If you had to point to one person responsible for the 'Disney Renaissance'...
love. After Menken and Schwartz wrote "God Help the Outcasts", directors KirkWise and Gary Trousdale and Disney CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg debated whether or...
Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch; December 9, 1916 – February 5, 2020) was an American actor and filmmaker. After an impoverished childhood, he made...
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