Rob Minkoff

Known for DirectingBorn 1962-08-11 (age 63)Palo Alto, California, USA

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rob Minkoff, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Pride of The Lion King

Stuart Little: Making It Big

The Making of the Lion King

The Lion King

Mufasa: The Lion King

Waking Sleeping Beauty

The Lion King

Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation

Howard

Rainbow Rangers

Trail Mix-Up

The Great Mouse Detective

Mr. Peabody & Sherman

Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank

The Brave Little Toaster

The Forbidden Kingdom

Oliver & Company

Tummy Trouble

Roller Coaster Rabbit

Sport Goofy in Soccermania

Flypaper

Stuart Little

Stuart Little 2

Technological Threat

The Haunted Mansion

Stuart Little: The Animated Series

Mickey's Audition

Le Jour d'après

Paws

Wolf Totem

Chinese Odyssey

Tenor By Night