Tony Craig

**Anthony Ellis "Tony" Craig** is a director, producer, and writer. He served as an executive producer and director on the television series *The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa*.

## Biography

Craig studied art at Winthrop University in Rock Hill, South Carolina, and the California Institute of the Arts. He has worked as an artist in the animation industry for 23 years on shows ranging from *Tiny Toon Adventures* and *Animaniacs* at Warner Brothers, to serving as executive producer/director on *The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa*, *101 Dalmatians: The Series*, *Mickey Mouse Works*, *House of Mouse*, *Lilo and Stitch: The Series*, two video sequels to *Lilo & Stitch*, and *Mickey Mouse Clubhouse*, before moving to North Carolina and devoting more time to his own artwork.

Craig still freelances on many current animation projects, including *The Looney Tunes Show* and *Curious George*. His latest animation assignments are on *Exchange Student Zero* and *Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!*. Along the way, Craig worked with such greats as Chuck Jones, Gene Kelly, Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera, and Roy E. Disney.

Craig currently works at Paramount Animation, where he storyboarded of the upcoming *The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run*.

## Credits

***The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa***

* "**Boara Boara**" (producer/director)
* "**Kenya Be My Friend**?" (producer/director)
* "**Good Mousekeeping**" (producer/director)
* "**South Sea Sick**" (producer/director)
* "**Never Everglades**" (producer/director)
* "**Cooked Goose**" (producer/director)
* "**Yukon Con**" (producer/director)
* "**How to Beat the High Costa Rica**" (producer/director)
* "**Swiss Missed**" (producer/director)
* "**Uganda Be an Elephant**" (producer/director)
* "French Fried" (producer/director)
* "Don't Break the China" (producer/director)
* "The Pain in Spain" (producer/director)
* "Guatemala Malarkey" (producer/director)
* "Timon's Time Togo" (producer/director)
* "The Law of the Jungle" (producer/director)
* "Be More Pacific" (producer/director)
* "Going Uruguay" (producer/director)
* "Mozam-Beaked" (producer/director)
* "Ocean Commotion" (producer/director)
* "Palm Beached" (producer/director)
* "Jamaica Mistake?" (producer/director)
* "Oregon Astray" (producer/director)
* "New Guinea Pig" (producer/director)
* "Klondike Con" (producer/director)
* "Isle Find Out" (producer/director)
* "Wide Awake in Wonderland" (producer/director)
* "Zazu's Off-by-One Day" (producer/director)
* "Africa-Dabra!" (producer/director)
* "I Don't Bolivia" (producer/director)
* "Catch Me if You Kenya" (producer/director/storyboard artist)
* "Scent of the South" (producer/director)
* "Forbidden Pumbaa" (producer/director)
* "Washington Applesauce" (producer/director)
* "I Think I Canada" (producer/director)
* "Zazu's Off Day Off" (producer/director)
* "Timon on the Range" (producer/director)
* "The Man From J.U.N.G.L.E." (producer/director)
* "Maine-Iacs" (producer/director)
* "Fiji-Fi-Fo-Fum" (producer/director)
* "Rome Alone" (producer/director)
* "Amusement Bark" (producer/director)
* "Once Upon a Timon" (producer/director)
* "Beethoven's Whiff" (producer/director)
* "Bumble in the Jungle" (producer/director)
* "Mind Over Matterhorn" (producer/director)