Gary Trousdale

Gary A. Trousdale (born June 8, 1960) is an American film director, screenwriter, animator and storyboard artist, known for directing films such as Beauty and the Beast, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and Atlantis: The Lost Empire. He frequently works with Kirk Wise and Don Hahn.
==Life and career==
Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at CalArts, where he studied for three years. He was hired in 1982 to design storyboards and do other animation. He then went to work designing restaurant menus and T-shirts.
Trousdale was hired by Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1985 as an effects animator on The Black Cauldron. He gained true prominence in his field with the success of his animated film directorial debut Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a LAFCA Award. He later directed The Hunchback of Notre Dame in 1996 and Atlantis: The Lost Empire in 2001. Following the release of Atlantis, he was attached to solely direct Gnomeo & Juliet, but he was dismissed from the project following creative differences with then-Feature Animation president David Stainton.
He later moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects such as The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Shrek the Halls, and Scared Shrekless.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position 	Notes
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Inbetween effects artist 	
1985	My Science Project 	Effects animator 	
1985	Homania 	Character Designer / Animator 	
1988	Oliver & Company 	Story 	
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Story 	
1989	Cranium Command 	Opening Sequence Director 	
1990	The Rescuers Down Under 	Story 	
1990	The Prince and the Pauper 	Story 	
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Director 	Co-directed with Kirk Wise
1992	Aladdin 	Pre-production Story Development: CGI	
1994	The Lion King 	Story 	
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame 	Director / Old Man (voice) 	Co-directed with Kirk Wise
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Director / Story 	Co-directed with Kirk Wise
2005	Madagascar 	Storyboard artist 	
2005	The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper	Director 	Short film
2006	Flushed Away 	Additional story artist 	
2007	Shrek the Halls 	Director / Teleplay / Santa (voice) 	
2008	Kung Fu Panda 	Special Thanks 	
2010	Megamind 	Special Thanks 	
2010	Scared Shrekless 	Director / Teleplay 	Television film
2011	Thriller Night 	Director 	
2011	The Pig Who Cried Werewolf 	Director 	
2014	Mr. Peabody & Sherman 	Story artist 	
2014	Rocky and Bullwinkle 	Director 	Direct to video short
2016	Floyd Norman: An Animated Life 	Himself 	
2017	Beauty and the Beast 	Creative consultant 	
==Collaborations==
Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.
 	Beauty andthe Beast	The Hunchbackof Notre Dame	Atlantis:The Lost Empire
Jack Angel 	 	 	
Mary Kay Bergman 	 	 	
Corey Burton 	 	 	
Jim Cummings 	 	 	
Bill Farmer 	 	 	
Tony Jay 	 	 	
Patrick Pinney 	 	 	
Phil Proctor 	 	 	
Kath Soucie 	 	 	
David Ogden Stiers	 	 	
Frank Welker 	 	 	
Category:1960 births
Category:Animators from California
Category:American animated film directors
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:American storyboard artists
Category:Animation screenwriters
Category:California Institute of the Arts alumni
Category:Film directors from California
Category:Living people
Category:Walt Disney Animation Studios people
Category:People from La Crescenta-Montrose, California
Category:DreamWorks Animation people
Category:Screenwriters from California