Kirk Wise
, b. 1963
Kirk Wise is an American director, screenwriter and animator. As a child, he won the Junior Art Champion contest, as his talent blossomed when he was very young. Like Gary Trousdale, he graduated from California Institute of the Arts During his studies, he made money drawing caricatures at Universal Studios. After that he was hired by ‘Disney’ and worked on several productions, inter alia: Sport Goofy in Soccermania, The Great Mouse Detective, The Brave Little Toaster. Along with Trousdale, he directed Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Atlantis… Even though he has worked mostly for Walt Disney Company, he also directed the English version of Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away.
Bio prepared by Anna Mik, University of Warsaw, anna.m.mik@gmail.com
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