John Kahrs

Visual Effects

Biography

John Kahrs (born September 18, 1967) is an American actor, animator and film director. Kahrs attended NSCAD University, graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1990. He began his career at Blue Sky Studios in New York, where he worked as an animator between 1990 and 1997. He later moved to Pixar, where he worked on such films as A Bug's Life, The Incredibles, and Ratatouille. After ten years at Pixar, he moved over to Disney, where he animated on Bolt, Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen, and was an animation supervisor on Tangled. In 2013, he won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film for his 2012 short film, Paperman. In August 2013, he left Walt Disney Animation Studios to develop his own projects. In January 2014, it was reported that he will direct for Paramount Animation an animated film Shedd. In 2020, he co-directed Over the Moon with Glen Keane, which was released on Netflix the same year. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature the following year, but lost to Soul. Description above from the Wikipedia article John Kahrs, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

Paperman

8.0(1.8K)

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

Over the Moon

7.2(1.4K)

Fueled by memories of her mother, resourceful Fei Fei builds a rocket to the moon on a mission to prove the existence of a legendary moon goddess.

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Over the Moon

Additional Voices (voice)

MOVIE

The Making of 'The Incredibles'

6.3(0.0K)

The production of the movie, "The Incredibles," shot behind the scenes at Pixar Animation Studios.

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The Making of 'The Incredibles'

Self

Production

MOVIE

Monsters, Inc.

7.8(19.8K)

Lovable Sulley and his wisecracking sidekick Mike Wazowski are the top scare team at Monsters, Inc., the scream-processing factory in Monstropolis. When a little girl named Boo wanders into their world, it's the monsters who are scared silly, and it's up to Sulley and Mike to keep her out of sight and get her back home.

Paperman

8.0(1.8K)

An urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.

100 Years of Disney Animation: A Shorts Celebration

5.0(0.0K)

Fragments from Cinderella (1922), Alice’s Wonderland (1923), Trolley Troubles (1927), Steamboat Willie (1928), Clock Cleaners (1937), The Old Mill (1937), Trailer Horn (1950), Lambert the Sheepish Lion (1952), Paperman (2012) and Going Home (2021).

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100 Years of Disney Animation: A Shorts Celebration

Director

MOVIE

Mike's New Car

6.9(0.8K)

Mike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't last long enough, however, as Sulley jump-starts an ill-fated road test that teaches Mike the true meaning of buyer's remorse.

Bunny

6.6(0.1K)

Bunny, an elderly rabbit who uses a walker, is in her kitchen one night baking a cake. A pesky and persistent moth bangs about the kitchen. Nothing is what it seems.

Joe's Apartment

5.8(0.4K)

A nice guy has just moved to New York and discovers that he must share his run-down apartment with a couple thousand singing, dancing cockroaches.

Tangled

7.6(12.4K)

Feisty teenager Rapunzel, who has long and magical hair, wants to go and see sky lanterns on her eighteenth birthday, but she's bound to a tower by her overprotective mother. She strikes a deal with Flynn Rider, a charming wanted thief, and the duo set off on an action-packed escapade.

June

5.8(0.0K)

Animated short film. A lonely widow in historic South Chicago is inspired to start sharing the ride — and sharing her life, too.

Toy Story 2

7.6(14.9K)

Andy heads off to Cowboy Camp, leaving his toys to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector named Al McWhiggen, owner of Al's Toy Barn kidnaps Woody. Andy's toys mount a daring rescue mission, Buzz Lightyear meets his match and Woody has to decide where he and his heart truly belong.

Bolt

6.5(6.5K)

Bolt is the star of the biggest show in Hollywood. The only problem is, he thinks it's real. After he's accidentally shipped to New York City and separated from Penny, his beloved co-star and owner, Bolt must harness all his "super powers" to find a way home.

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Bolt

Animation