Gary Trousdale


Gary A. Trousdale 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 . 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 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

Collaborations

Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise have cast certain actors in more than one of their films.
Beauty and
the Beast		The Hunchback
of Notre Dame
Jack Angel
Mary Kay Bergman
Corey Burton
Jim Cummings
Bill Farmer
Tony Jay
Patrick Pinney
Phil Proctor
Kath Soucie
David Ogden Stiers
Frank Welker