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Dean DeBlois

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Dean DeBlois

Born Jun 7, 1970 · 56 years28 titles 26 movies · 2 TV
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Biography

Dean Allan DeBlois (/dəˈblwɑː/ də-BLWAH; born June 7, 1970) is a Canadian filmmaker and writer. He is best known for writing and directing the Oscar-nominated animated feature films Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Animation Studios (with Chris Sanders), the How to Train Your Dragon film trilogy for DreamWorks Animation (the first film also with Sanders), and directing the documentary Heima about the Icelandic band Sigur Rós.

Also known as

Dean DeBois · Dean Allan DeBlois

Born

Jun 7, 1970

Brockville, Ontario, Canada

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Roles across career

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

7

Acting credits

10

Directing

13

Writing

13

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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2001 1 title(s)

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2003 2 title(s)

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2005 2 title(s)

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2011 1 title(s)

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2025 4 title(s)

2027 1 title(s)

Undated 1 title(s)