Brad Bird filmography

Brad Bird in 2018

Brad Bird is a filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning over four decades in both television, animation and live-action films.

In the 1980s Bird co-wrote Batteries Not Included (1987), and developed two episodes of Amazing Stories for Steven Spielberg. Afterwards, Bird joined the animated sitcom The Simpsons as creative consultant for eight seasons.

Bird directed his first animated film The Iron Giant (1999), before moving to Pixar where he wrote and directed two successful animated films, The Incredibles (2004), Ratatouille (2007), and Incredibles 2 (2018). He transitioned to live-action filmmaking with Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and Disney's Tomorrowland (2015).

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1987	Batteries Not Included	No	Yes	No
1999	The Iron Giant	Yes	Yes [a]	No	Also song performer: "Duck and Cover"
2004	The Incredibles	Yes	Yes	No
2007	Ratatouille	Yes	Yes	No
2011	Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol	Yes	No	No
2015	Tomorrowland	Yes	Yes	Yes	Also logos designer
2018	Incredibles 2	Yes	Yes	No	Also song lyrics: "Frozone"
TBA	Ray Gunn	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Incredibles 3	No	Yes	Executive	[3]

Animator

• Animalympics (1980)
• The Fox and the Hound (1981) (Uncredited)
• The Plague Dogs (1982)
• The Black Cauldron (1985) (Uncredited)
• The Brave Little Toaster (1987) (Uncredited)
• The Iron Giant (1999) (Uncredited) ^[4]

Voice roles

Year	Title	Role
2004	The Incredibles	Edna Mode (E)
2007	Ratatouille	Ambrister Minion
2015	Jurassic World	Monorail Announcer
2018	Incredibles 2	Edna Mode (E) / Additional voices

Documentary appearances

• Fog City Mavericks (2007)
• The Pixar Story (2007)
• A Grand Night In: The Story of Aardman (2015)
• The Giant's Dream: The Making of The Iron Giant (2016)

Pixar Senior Creative Team

• WALL-E (2008)
• Up (2009)
• Toy Story 3 (2010)
• Cars 2 (2011)
• Brave (2012)
• Monsters University (2013)
• Inside Out (2015)
• The Good Dinosaur (2015)
• Finding Dory (2016)
• Cars 3 (2017)
• Coco (2017)
• Incredibles 2 (2018)
• Toy Story 4 (2019)

Uncredited brain trust ^{[5] [6]}

• Monsters, Inc. (2001)
• Finding Nemo (2003)
• The Incredibles (2004)
• Cars (2006)
• Ratatouille (2007)

Special thanks

• An American Tail (1986)
• Technological Threat (1988)
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
• All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
• Thumbelina (1994)
• Balto (1995)
• Ice Age (2002)
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004)
• Corpse Bride (2005)
• Friz on Film (2006)
• Fog City Mavericks (2007)
• Madison's Résumé (2007)
• The Pixar Story (2007)
• Calendar Confloption ^[7] (2009)
• Partly Cloudy (2009)
• Day & Night (2010)
• Pinched (2010)
• Toy Story of Terror! (2013)
• Jurassic World (2015)
• The Angry Birds Movie (2016)
• Bao (2018)
• Frozen II (2019)
• Canvas (2020)
• Pixar Popcorn: Chore Day The Incredibles Way (2021)
• Pixar Popcorn: Cookie Num Num (2021)
• Lightyear (2022)
• Werewolf by Night (2022)
• Good Chemistry: The Story of Elemental (2023)

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Executive Producer	Other	Voice Role	Notes
1979	Doctor of Doom	No	No	No	Yes	Don Carlo, Bystander
2005	Jack-Jack Attack	Yes	Yes	No	No
	Mr. Incredible and Pals	Commentary	Commentary	Yes	No		Writer/director of commentary dialogue
	One Man Band	No	No	Yes	No
2007	Your Friend the Rat	No	No	Yes	No
2018	Auntie Edna	No	No	Yes	Yes	Edna Mode (E)

Television

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Episode(s)
1985–1987	Amazing Stories	Yes	Yes	"The Main Attraction" (Writer) "Family Dog" (Director, writer and animation producer)
1993	Family Dog	No	Creator
1989–1998	The Simpsons	Yes	No	Also executive consultant for 180 episodes "Krusty Gets Busted" (Director) "Like Father, Like Clown" (Creator and director)

Other credits

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	Rugrats	Animator	Episode "Tommy Pickles and The Great White Thing"
1994–1995	The Critic	Executive consultant
1997	King of the Hill	Creative consultant and visual consultant

Unmade projects

• Brothers in Crime, an action comedy for New Line Cinema that was set to be Bird's directorial and live action feature debut. ^[8]
• The Spirit , an animated feature based on the comic Bird developed with Jerry Rees and producer Gary Kurtz, based on Will Eisner's acclaimed comic strip. The studios they pitched it to liked the script, but were unwilling to take the gamble on an animated feature for the adult audience. ^{[9] [10]} Bird was then replaced by various directors, but ultimately replaced by veteran comic-book writer Frank Miller and was released on Christmas 2008 to critical and commercial negative reviews.
• The Incredible Mr. Limpet , a project that is still in development hell. Bird was attached to direct at one point but was replaced by Mike Judge and many others. ^[11]
• Curious George , wrote a draft of the film at one point, but his script was not used in the produced version. ^[12]
• The Simpsons Movie, the crew from The Simpsons including James L. Brooks and Matt Groening were hoping to get Bird to direct, but was too busy with The Incredibles and Ratatouille at the time. David Silverman, who was also working at Pixar at the time and quit his job after finishing work on Monsters, Inc. , became the film's director.
• 1906 , a collaborative project from Warner Bros. and Pixar (which could have been their first live-action project), in association with Walt Disney Pictures, where Bird would have directed. Disney and Pixar left the project in 2012 in development limbo at Warner Bros. due to delays in the film's several planned releases, several rejected scripts were not picked up, and going over budget ($200 million). ^{[13] [14] [15] [16]} However as of June 2018 ^[update] , Bird has expressed interest as to adapt the book as a TV series and the earthquake sequence as a live-action feature film. ^[17]
• Star Wars: The Force Awakens , Bird was on a shortlist of directors to direct the seventh Star Wars film. He passed on the project in favor of Tomorrowland ; The Force Awakens was directed by J. J. Abrams. ^[18]
• Sonic the Hedgehog , Bird was featured on a shortlist of writers when the film was still in development at Columbia Pictures. After Jeff Fowler was chosen to direct, Pat Casey and Josh Miller were picked as writers. ^[19]
• Untitled musical film, Bird announced in 2019 he was developing an original musical that would include songs by frequent collaborator Michael Giacchino and contain about 20 minutes of animation. ^[20]

Other venues

Music video

Year	Title	Director	Storyboard Artist
1991	"Do the Bartman"	Yes	Yes

Video game voice roles

Year	Title	Role
2004	The Incredibles	Edna Mode (E)
	The Incredibles: When Danger Calls
2018	Lego The Incredibles

Theme park

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Incredicoaster	Edna Mode (E)	Voice

References

1. "The Iron Giant". AFI . Retrieved December 16, 2018.
2. "'The Iron Giant: Signature Edition' Debuts September 6 on Blu-Ray". Animation World Network. March 29, 2016. Retrieved December 16, 2018.
3. Verhoeven, Beatrice (June 10, 2025). "'Incredibles 3' Finds Its Director (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 10, 2025.
4. "The Iron Giant commentary". Warner Home Video.
5. Sarto, Dan (June 11, 2018). "Brad Bird Makes a Heroic Return to Animation with the Incredible 'Incredibles 2'". AWN.com . Animation World Network . Retrieved October 29, 2020.
6. Barbagallo, Ron (September 25, 2018). "BRAD BIRD's Amazing Story, from leaving Disney onto fixing The Iron Giant, and the Road Less Traveled". Animation Art Conservation. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
7. Lauer, Andy (March 11, 2009). ""Answer Man," "Food Inc." Among 2009 Sonoma International Film Festival Selections". IndieWire . Retrieved March 12, 2021.
8. Marx, Andy (June 9, 1993). "Bird to helm New Line 'Crime'". Variety . Retrieved August 12, 2024.
9. Paul Leiva, Steven. "'The Spirit' movie that could have been", Los Angeles Times – Hero Complex, Dec. 12, 2008
10. Fiamma, Andrea (April 15, 2015). "Il trailer del film di Spirit mai realizzato da Brad Bird" (in Italian). Fumettologica . Retrieved December 30, 2016.
11. Bradford Evans (December 4, 2013). "The Failed Jim Carrey 'Incredible Mr. Limpet' Remake Would Have Been Terrifying". Vulture . Retrieved December 2, 2021.
12. Linder, Brian (July 31, 2001). "Grazer Curious About CG George". IGN. Retrieved August 19, 2016.
13. Christopher Orr (June 22, 2012). "'Brave': A Disappointment Worth Seeing". The Atlantic . Retrieved November 10, 2016.
14. Gardner, Eric (February 15, 2012). "Warner Bros. Wins 'Last Samurai' Lawsuit". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved November 10, 2016.
15. Fischer, Russ (January 27, 2010). "What Happened to Brad Bird's 1906?". Slashfilm . Retrieved November 10, 2016.
16. Bastoli, Mike. "'1906' to be Disney/Pixar/Warner Bros. collaboration". March 13, 2008. Big Screen Animation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2016.
17. Adam Chitwood (June 18, 2018). "Brad Bird Says '1906' May Get Made as an "Amalgam" of a TV and Film Project". Collider . Retrieved June 18, 2018.
18. Bernardin, Marc (May 16, 2013). "Brad Bird on 'Incredibles' Sequel: 'I Would Probably Wanna Do That' (Q&A)". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved September 12, 2017.
19. "{TB EXCLUSIVE} "Sonic The Hedgehog" Gets The "Dark Knight" Treatment And A Writer Shortlist". The Tracking Board. March 21, 2014. Retrieved August 29, 2021.
20. Amidi, Amid (January 6, 2019). "Brad Bird Reveals His Next Project, And It's Not What You'd Expect". Cartoon Brew . Archived from the original on June 20, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2019.

1. Although Tim McCanlies received sole screenplay credit in the original theatrical prints and home video releases,
   Bird is credited in the film's 2015 restoration and the Signature Edition. ^{[1] [2]}