Name
Rob Minkoff
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1962-08-11 (64 years old)
Place of Birth
Palo Alto, California, USA
Biography
Robert R. "Rob" Minkoff (born August 11, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for directing the Academy Award-winning animated feature The Lion King.
Minkoff was born in Palo Alto, California. He studied at California Institute of the Arts in the early 1980s in the Character Animation department. He has directed several films for Walt Disney Feature Animation, including The Lion King (1994) and two of the Roger Rabbit shorts: Tummy Trouble (1989) and Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990).
While working at Disney he wrote the song "Good Company" for Oliver & Company. He also made the films Stuart Little (1999), Stuart Little 2 (2002), The Haunted Mansion (2003) and The Forbidden Kingdom (2008). Minkoff also participates as a member of the jury for the NYICFF, a local New York City Film Festival dedicated to screening films for children between the ages of 3 and 18. He is currently working on two films: Flypaper, which is set to release in 2011 and the announced Chinese Odyssey. He married Crystal Kung on September 29, 2007. Minkoff is the brother-in-law of Jeffrey Kung, a Chinese singer and radio VJ.
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- 2011 Pride of The Lion King as Self
- 2018 Howard as Self
- 2010 Waking Sleeping Beauty as Self - Pumbaa (voice)
- 2022 Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank as Additional Voices (voice)
- 2014 Mr. Peabody & Sherman as Creepy Boy (voice)
- 2000 Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation as Self
- 1994 The Making of the Lion King as Self
- 1999 Stuart Little: Making It Big as Self
- 1994 The Lion King as Laughing Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
- 2003 The Making Of 'The Lion King' as Self
