Roger Allers

Roger Charles Allers is an American director, animator, screenwriter, playwright, and storyboard artist, who directed the 1994 Disney animated feature film The Lion King (along with Rob Minkoff). He also wrote the Broadway adaptation for the film. Additionally, he worked on other films, such as Tron, The Little Mermaid, Oliver & Company, and Beauty and the Beast.
Born in Rye, New York, but raised in Scottsdale, Arizona, Allers became a fan of animation, at the age of five, after seeing Disney's Peter Pan. Allers went on to receive a Fine Arts degree from Arizona State University and spent the next two years traveling and living in Greece. Allers accepted a job with Lisberger Studios, where he worked as an animator for projects, such as Sesame Street, The Electric Company, Make a Wish, and various other commercials.
Following the release of The Lion King, Allers and writer Matthew Jacobs conceived the idea of "Kingdom of the Sun", and development on the project went underway in 1994. After nearly four years on "Kingdom of the Sun", Allers asked to leave the project due to creative differences with co-director Mark Dindal, poorly received test screenings, and the failure to meet its promotional deadlines. Ultimately, the project was reworked into The Emperor's New Groove in 2000.
Outside of Disney, he directed the 2006 Sony animated film and the 2014 adaptation of Kahlil Gibran's novel The Prophet.
==Disney filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1982	Tron 	Pre-production concepts
1988	Oliver & Company 	Story
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Story
1990	The Rescuers Down Under 	Story
1990	The Prince and the Pauper	Story
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Head of Story
1992	Aladdin 	Story
1994	The Lion King 	Director
2000	The Emperor's New Groove 	Story: "Kingdom of the Sun"
2002	Lilo & Stitch 	Additional Story Supervisor
2002	The Sweatbox 	Himself
2002	Return to Never Land 	Storyboard Artist
2003	Brother Bear 	Story - uncredited
2004	The Lion King 1½ 	Additional screenplay material
2006	Brother Bear 2 	Additional storyboard artist - uncredited
2006	The Little Matchgirl 	DirectorStory Adaptation
2010	Waking Sleeping Beauty 	Himself/Caricaturist Artist
==Gallery==
Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff storyboarding LK.jpg|Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff storyboarding a scene for The Lion King.
Allers & Minkoff- LK3D.jpg|Roger Allers and Rob Minkoff at the The Lion King 3D re-release premiere in August 2011.
Roger Allers Prophet premiere.jpg|Roger Allers at the premiere of Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet in July 2015.
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