Gary Trousdale

Gary Allen Trousdale is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter, known for directing movies, 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.
Trousdale planned to become an architect, but decided instead to study animation at California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). First hired by the Walt Disney Animation Studios in 1983 as an effects in-betweener on The Black Cauldron before making his directorial debut with Beauty and the Beast, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture and won a LAFCA Award.
He later moved to DreamWorks Animation in 2003, where he worked on projects, such as Madagascar, Flushed Away, The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper, Shrek the Halls, and Scared Shrekless.
==Filmography==
Year	Film 	Position
1985	The Black Cauldron 	Inbetween Artist
1985	My Science Project 	Effects Animator
1988	Oliver & Company 	Story / Storyboard artist (uncredited)
1989	The Little Mermaid 	Storyboard Artist
1989	Cranium Command 	Opening Sequence Director
1990	The Prince and the Pauper 	Storyboard Artist
1990	The Rescuers Down Under 	Storyboard Artist
1991	Beauty and the Beast 	Director
1992	Aladdin 	Pre-Production Story Development
1994	The Lion King 	Story
1995	Toy Story 	Screenplay (uncredited)
1996	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Director, voice actor (Old Prisoner)
2001	Atlantis: The Lost Empire 	Director, story
==Role==
Hunchback041.jpg|Old Prisoner(The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
==Gallery==
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Gary-Trousdale Kirk-Wise.jpg|Gary Trousdale with fellow director Kirk Wise
GarynKirkCameos.png|Trousdale and Wise's cameos in Beauty and the Beast
Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale Cranium Command.jpg|Cameo in Cranium Command
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