Brad Bird Movies and Career Information

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 11, 1957) is an American director, animator and screenwriter. His best known works are Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles (2004), which he wrote and directed, and Ratatouille (2007), for which he directed and wrote the screenplay. He also adapted and directed the critically-acclaimed 2-D animated 1999 Warner Brothers film The Iron Giant. Reviewing the Ratatouille DVD, Eye Weekly offered this characterization of Bird's work: "It's very hard to think of another mainstream American director with a comparably fluid visual style or such a vise-grip on storytelling mechanics." He also directed the The Simpsons ' episode "Like Father, Like Clown". Bird was born in Kalispell, Montana, the youngest of four siblings. His father, Phillip, worked in the propane business, and his grandfather, Frank W. Bird, was a president and chief executive of the Montana Power Company. On a tour of the Walt Disney Studios at age eleven, he announced that someday he would become part of its animation team, and soon afterward began work on his own 15-minute animated short. Within two years, Bird had completed his animation, which impressed the cartoon company. By age 14,