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 three 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). He would move to Skydance Animation, where he wrote and directed the animated film Ray Gunn (2026).

Feature film Year Title Director Writer Producer Notes 1987 Batteries Not Included 1999 The Iron Giant Also uncredited animator and song performer: "Duck and Cover" 2004 The Incredibles 2007 Ratatouille 2011 Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol 2015 Tomorrowland Also logos designer 2018 Incredibles 2 Also song lyrics: "Frozone" 2026 Ray Gunn 2028 Incredibles 3

Animator only Animalympics (1980) The Fox and the Hound (1981) (Uncredited) The Plague Dogs (1982) The Black Cauldron (1985) (Uncredited) The Brave Little Toaster (1987) (Uncredited) Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland (1989) (Uncredited)

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 2026 Ray Gunn Gunsol/Musker

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

Special thanks Captain EO (1986) 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 (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 ExecutiveProducer Other Voice Role Notes 1979 Doctor of Doom Don Carlo, Bystander 2005 Jack-Jack Attack Mr. Incredible and Pals Writer/director of commentary dialogue One Man Band 2007 Your Friend the Rat 2018 Auntie Edna Edna Mode (E)

Television Year Title Director Writer Episode(s) 1985–1987 Amazing Stories "The Main Attraction" (Writer)"Family Dog" (Director, writer and animation producer) 1989–1998 The Simpsons Also executive consultant for 180 episodes"Krusty Gets Busted" (Director)"Like Father, Like Clown" (Creator and director) 1993 Family Dog

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. 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.Paul Leiva, Steven. "'The Spirit' movie that could have been", Los Angeles Times – Hero Complex, Dec. 12, 2008 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. Curious George, wrote a draft of the film at one point, but his script was not used in the produced version. 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. Pictures and Pixar (which could have been the latter's 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). However , Bird has expressed interest in adapting the book as an eight-episode miniseries. 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. 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. 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. Incredibles 3, Bird was asked to direct Incredibles 3, though he would be replaced by Peter Sohn due to Bird's commitment to the film Ray Gunn (2026). Nevertheless, Bird would remain involved as a screenwriter and executive producer.

Other venues Music video Year Title Director StoryboardArtist 1990 "Do the Bartman"

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

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