Rich Moore
Moore at 2012 San Diego Comic-Con International.
Born	(1963-05-10) May 10, 1963 (age 52) United States
Occupation	Animation director, film director
Notable work	Wreck-It Ralph The Simpsons Futurama

Rich Moore (born May 10, 1963) is an American animation director and a business partner in Rough Draft Studios, best known for his work on The Simpsons, Futurama and Wreck-It Ralph.

Life and career[edit]

Moore studied animation at California Institute of the Arts. During his college years at CalArts, he narrated his friend Jim Reardon's student film Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown.

His animation directing credits include the television series The Simpsons, Futurama, The Critic, Drawn Together and Baby Blues, and the segment "Spy vs. Spy" for MADtv. He was also sequence director on The Simpsons Movie, and served as a supervising director on the Fox television series Sit Down, Shut Up, which debuted in 2009.^[1] On Futurama, he served as supervising director for the entire original series, though the post was shared by Gregg Vanzo in the first production season and with Bret Haaland for the second production season.

Moore directed the theatrical feature Wreck-It Ralph for the Walt Disney Animation Studios, released on November 2, 2012,^[2] and proved to be a worldwide success. He also supplied the voices for the characters Sour Bill and Zangief of Street Fighter. For 2016, he is directing, along with director Byron Howard and co-director Jared Bush, another Disney animated film, Zootopia.^[3]

Directing credits[edit]

The Simpsons[edit]

• "The Telltale Head"
• "Homer's Night Out"
• "Simpson and Delilah"
• "Treehouse of Horror"
• "Dead Putting Society"
• "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• "Lisa's Substitute"
• "Stark Raving Dad"
• "Bart the Murderer"
• "Flaming Moe's"
• "Lisa the Greek"
• "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
• "A Streetcar Named Marge"
• "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
• "Marge vs. the Monorail"
• "The Front"
• "Cape Feare"

Futurama[edit]

• "Space Pilot 3000" (co-directed with Gregg Vanzo)
• "Hell Is Other Robots"
• "A Clone of My Own"
• "Anthology of Interest I" (co-directed with Chris Louden)
• "Roswell That Ends Well"

Drawn Together[edit]

• "Clum Babies"
• "Alzheimer's That Ends Well"

Theatrically released films[edit]

• Wreck-It Ralph (along with story, voices of Sour Bill and Zangief)
• Zootopia (along with Byron Howard, story by)

Awards[edit]

Emmy Award

• 1991 – Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) for "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
• 2002 – Outstanding Animated Program (Programming Less Than One Hour) for "Roswell That Ends Well"^[4]

Annie Award

• 2002 – Directing in an Animated Television Production for "Roswell That Ends Well"^[5]
• 2012 – Best Directing in a Feature Production for Wreck-It Ralph

Academy Award

• 2012 – Nominated: Best Animated Feature for Wreck-It Ralph

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Rich Moore at the Internet Movie Database