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Chris Wedge

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Chris Wedge

Born Mar 20, 1957 · 69 years43 titles 41 movies · 2 TV
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Biography

John Christian Wedge (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. He is best known for being the lead animator of the sci-fi action film Tron (1982), co-founding the now defunct animation studio Blue Sky Studios, and directing the short film Bunny (1998) and the feature films Ice Age (2002), Robots (2005) and Epic (2013). Wedge has received two Academy Awards nominations: one for Bunny, for which he won Best Animated Short; and Ice Age, nominated for Best Animated Feature. He also created and voiced the character Scrat in the Ice Age franchise (2002–2022). Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Wedge, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Also known as

John Christopher Wedge · Christopher Wedge

Born

Mar 20, 1957

Binghamton, New York, USA

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Roles across career

Titles counted once; a person can act and direct on the same film (roles merged).

28

Acting credits

9

Directing

3

Writing

30

Other crew

Most critically rated

Highest TMDB score (min 100 votes)

Most commercially successful

Highest TMDB vote count (attention / reach proxy; not box office)

Career timeline

By release / first air year · movie & TV merged

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1982 2 title(s)

1985 1 title(s)

1987 1 title(s)

1989 1 title(s)

1996 1 title(s)

1997 2 title(s)

1998 1 title(s)

2002 2 title(s)

2005 2 title(s)

2006 2 title(s)

2008 2 title(s)

2009 3 title(s)

2010 1 title(s)

2011 4 title(s)

2012 1 title(s)

2013 1 title(s)

2014 1 title(s)

2015 2 title(s)

2016 5 title(s)

2017 1 title(s)

2019 2 title(s)

2022 3 title(s)

2023 1 title(s)

2027 1 title(s)