Chris Sanders
- Writing
- March 12, 1962 · Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA
Biography
Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its live-action adaptation and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The Croods (2013) with Kirk DeMicco; and The Wild Robot (2024), receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for all of them. In 2020, he made his live-action directorial debut with the adventure drama The Call of the Wild. He created the character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in almost all his media appearances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- Lilo & Stitch 2 · Stitch (Voice), Writer
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 · Executive producer
- Lilo & Scratch · Stitch (Voice)
- The Bad Guys 2 · Thanks
- How to Train Your Dragon · Executive producer
- Lilo & Stitch · Stitch (Voice), Original Film Writer
- The Wild Robot · Director, Screenplay
- Once Upon a Studio · Stitch (voice) (archive sound)
- Puss in Boots: The Last Wish · Thanks
- How Not to Draw · Stitch (Voice)
- The Croods: Family Tree · Creator
- The Croods: A New Age · Belt (Voice), Characters
- The Call of the Wild · Director
- How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World · Executive producer
- The Boss Baby · Thanks
- Dawn of the Croods · Belt (Voice), Additional Voices (Voice)
- Penguins of Madagascar · Antarctic Penguin (Voice)
- How to Train Your Dragon 2 · Executive producer
- The Croods · Belt (Voice), Director
- DreamWorks Dragons · Creator
- Waking Sleeping Beauty · Self
- How to Train Your Dragon · Director, Screenplay
- Stitch! · Creator
- Leroy & Stitch · Stitch / Leroy (Voice), Characters
- The Origin of Stitch · Stitch (Voice), Characters
- Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch · Stitch (Voice), Characters
- The Lion King 1½ · Additional Voices (Voice)
- The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch' · Self, Director
- Timon & Pumbaa Virtual Safari 2.0 · Experiment 626 / Stitch (voice) (archive footage)
- Lilo & Stitch: The Series · Stitch (Voice), Characters
- Stitch! The Movie · Stitch (Voice), Characters
- Lilo & Stitch Read-Along · Stitch (Voice)
- Lilo & Stitch · Stitch (Voice), Director
- Tarzan · Additional Voices (Voice)
- Mulan · Screenplay, Story Supervisor
- Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars · Park Keeper
- Toy Story · Character Designer
- The Lion King · Production Design, Story
- Aladdin · Story
- Beauty and the Beast · Story, Visual Development
- The Rescuers Down Under · Storyboard, Visual Development
- Garfield: His 9 Lives · Other
- Toby the Badly Animated Boy · Director
- Fun with Father · Writer, Animation
- The Wild Robot Escapes · Screenplay, Executive producer