Personal Info
Rob Minkoff
Directing
Biography
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 Stua…
Known For
Filmography
Movies
Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank
as Additional Voices (voice)
Howard
as Self
Mr. Peabody & Sherman
as Creepy Boy (voice)
Pride of The Lion King
as Self
Waking Sleeping Beauty
as Self - Pumbaa (voice)
Chuck Jones: Extremes and In-Betweens - A Life in Animation
as Self
Stuart Little: Making It Big
as Self
The Lion King
as Laughing Hyena (voice) (uncredited)
The Making of the Lion King
as Self