Bruce W. Smith Movies, TV Shows, and Filmography

Bruce W. Smith

Bruce W. Smith

Directing

Biography

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Bruce W. Smith is an American character animator, film director, and television producer, best known as the creator of Disney's The Proud Family. He studied animation in the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts. One of the few Black animators working in the industry, Smith got his start as an assistant animator for Bill Meléndez's 1984 Garfield television special Garfield in the Rough. He went on to animate for Baer Animation on Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and in 1992 directed his first feature, Bébé's Kids. Other notable work for Smith during the mid-1990s included supervising the animation for The Pagemaster, serving as director and character designer for Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child, designing the characters for A Goofy Movie and C Bear and Jamal, and co-directing the animated segments of Space Jam. He was also was the creator of Da Boom Crew along with John P. White and Stiles White. In 1998 he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation, Smith served as a supervising animator on four of its films: Tarzan, The Emperor's New Groove, Home on the Range and The Princess and the Frog. In 2000 when he still worked for Hyperion Pictures, he piloted his series The Proud Family to Nickelodeon, who passed on it. Disney Channel eventually picked the series up the following year and ran it until 2005. The series was the first to be produced by his production company Jambalaya Studios. Smith grew up in Central Los Angeles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bruce W. Smith, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

The Sweatbox movie poster
MOVIE

The Sweatbox

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The Sweatbox
Self
Pencils vs Pixels movie poster
MOVIE

Pencils vs Pixels

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Pencils vs Pixels
Self
Back to Neverland movie poster
MOVIE

Back to Neverland

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Back to Neverland
Animator
Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess movie poster
MOVIE

Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess

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Magic in the Bayou: The Making of a Princess
Self
The Making of 'The Pagemaster' movie poster
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The Making of 'The Pagemaster'

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The Making of 'The Pagemaster'
Self
Not Just a Goof movie poster
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Not Just a Goof

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Not Just a Goof
Self

Production

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night movie poster
MOVIE

Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night

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Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night
Animation
Bebe's Kids movie poster
MOVIE

Bebe's Kids

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Bebe's Kids
Director
The Proud Family Movie movie poster
MOVIE

The Proud Family Movie

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The Proud Family Movie
Director
Winnie the Pooh movie poster
MOVIE

Winnie the Pooh

6.9(1.0K)
Winnie the Pooh
Supervising Animator
Rover Dangerfield movie poster
MOVIE

Rover Dangerfield

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Rover Dangerfield
Sequence Supervisor
The Princess and the Frog movie poster
MOVIE

The Princess and the Frog

7.2(6.1K)
The Princess and the Frog
Supervising Animator
Home on the Range movie poster
MOVIE

Home on the Range

6.1(2.2K)
Home on the Range
Supervising Animator
Wreck-It Ralph movie poster
MOVIE

Wreck-It Ralph

7.4(13.1K)
Wreck-It Ralph
Additional Effects Development
The Emperor's New Groove movie poster
MOVIE

The Emperor's New Groove

7.6(7.3K)
The Emperor's New Groove
Supervising Animator
Hair Love movie poster
MOVIE

Hair Love

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Hair Love
Director

Gallery

Bruce W. Smith portrait