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Brad Bird

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Consultant Animator Director
Birth date:	September 24, 1957 (1957-09-24) (age 67)
Status:	Inactive
Number of episodes:	180
First episode:	"Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Most recent episode:	"Lisa the Simpson"
Music video:	Do the Bartman

Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 24, 1957 in Kalispell, Montana), is a two-time Academy Award-winning director and former director and animator for The Simpsons. He won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007).

In 1989 Bird joined Klasky Csupo, where he helped to develop The Simpsons from one-minute shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show into a series of half-hour programs. In 1990, he directed the episode "Krusty Gets Busted" and co-directed the season three episode "Like Father, Like Clown". He served on the show for several more years as an executive consultant. He worked on several other animated television series, including The Critic and King of the Hill. He was also interviewed in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!.

Credits

Executive consultant

Episode – "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire"
Episode – "There's No Disgrace Like Home"
Episode – "Bart the General"
Episode – "Moaning Lisa"
Episode – "The Call of the Simpsons"
Episode – "The Telltale Head"
Episode – "Life on the Fast Lane"
Episode – "Homer's Night Out"
Episode – "The Crepes of Wrath"
Episode – "Krusty Gets Busted"
Episode – "Some Enchanted Evening"
Episode – "Bart Gets an "F""
Episode – "Simpson and Delilah"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror"
Episode – "Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish"
Episode – "Dancin' Homer"
Episode – "Dead Putting Society"
Episode – "Bart vs. Thanksgiving"
Episode – "Bart the Daredevil"
Episode – "Itchy and Scratchy and Marge"
Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
Episode – "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish"
Episode – "The Way We Was"
Episode – "Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment"
Episode – "Principal Charming"
Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?"
Episode – "Bart's Dog Gets an "F""
Episode – "Old Money"
Episode – "Brush with Greatness"
Episode – "Lisa's Substitute"
Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
Episode – "Three Men and a Comic Book"
Episode – "Blood Feud"
Episode – "Stark Raving Dad"
Episode – "Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington"
Episode – "When Flanders Failed"
Episode – "Bart the Murderer"
Episode – "Homer Defined"
Episode – "Like Father, Like Clown"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror II" (as Bloody Bradley Bird)
Episode – "Lisa's Pony"
Episode – "Saturdays of Thunder"
Episode – "Flaming Moe's"
Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
Episode – "I Married Marge"
Episode – "Radio Bart"
Episode – "Lisa the Greek"
Episode – "Homer Alone"
Episode – "Bart the Lover"
Episode – "Homer at the Bat"
Episode – "Separate Vocations"
Episode – "Dog of Death"
Episode – "Colonel Homer"
Episode – "Black Widower"
Episode – "The Otto Show"
Episode – "Bart's Friend Falls in Love"
Episode – "Brother, Can You Spare Two Dimes?"
Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
Episode – "A Streetcar Named Marge"
Episode – "Homer the Heretic"
Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror III" (as Bloody Bradley Bird)
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie"
Episode – "Marge Gets a Job"
Episode – "New Kid on the Block"
Episode – "Mr. Plow"
Episode – "Lisa's First Word"
Episode – "Homer's Triple Bypass"
Episode – "Marge vs. the Monorail"
Episode – "Selma's Choice"
Episode – "Brother from the Same Planet"
Episode – "I Love Lisa"
Episode – "Duffless"
Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
Episode – "So It's Come to This: A Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode – "The Front"
Episode – "Whacking Day"
Episode – "Marge in Chains"
Episode – "Krusty Gets Kancelled"
Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
Episode – "Cape Feare"
Episode – "Homer Goes to College"
Episode – "Rosebud"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror IV" (as Bloody Bradley Bird)
Episode – "Marge on the Lam"
Episode – "Bart's Inner Child"
Episode – "Boy-Scoutz 'N the Hood"
Episode – "The Last Temptation of Homer"
Episode – "$pringfield (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Legalized Gambling)"
Episode – "Homer the Vigilante"
Episode – "Bart Gets Famous"
Episode – "Homer and Apu"
Episode – "Lisa vs. Malibu Stacy"
Episode – "Deep Space Homer"
Episode – "Homer Loves Flanders"
Episode – "Bart Gets an Elephant"
Episode – "Burns' Heir"
Episode – "Sweet Seymour Skinner's Baadasssss Song"
Episode – "The Boy Who Knew Too Much"
Episode – "Lady Bouvier's Lover"
Episode – "Secrets of a Successful Marriage"
Episode – "Bart of Darkness"
Episode – "Lisa's Rival"
Episode – "Another Simpsons Clip Show"
Episode – "Itchy & Scratchy Land"
Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror V" (as Baddaxe Bradley Bird)
Episode – "Bart's Girlfriend"
Episode – "Lisa on Ice"
Episode – "Homer Badman"
Episode – "Grampa vs. Sexual Inadequacy"
Episode – "Fear of Flying"
Episode – "Homer the Great"
Episode – "And Maggie Makes Three"
Episode – "Bart's Comet"
Episode – "Homie the Clown"
Episode – "Bart vs. Australia"
Episode – "Homer vs. Patty and Selma"
Episode – "A Star Is Burns"
Episode – "Lisa's Wedding"
Episode – "Two Dozen and One Greyhounds"
Episode – "The PTA Disbands"
Episode – "'Round Springfield"
Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
Episode – "Lemon of Troy"
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part One)"
Episode – "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)"
Episode – "Radioactive Man"
Episode – "Home Sweet Homediddly-Dum-Doodily"
Episode – "Bart Sells His Soul"
Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VI"
Episode – "King Size Homer"
Episode – "Mother Simpson"
Episode – "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming"
Episode – "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular"
Episode – "Marge Be Not Proud"
Episode – "Team Homer"
Episode – "Two Bad Neighbors"
Episode – "Scenes from the Class Struggle in Springfield"
Episode – "Bart the Fink"
Episode – "Lisa the Iconoclast"
Episode – "Homer the Smithers"
Episode – "The Day the Violence Died"
Episode – "A Fish Called Selma"
Episode – "Bart on the Road"
Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
Episode – "Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in 'The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'"
Episode – "Much Apu About Nothing"
Episode – "Homerpalooza"
Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII"
Episode – "You Only Move Twice"
Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
Episode – "Burns, Baby Burns"
Episode – "Bart After Dark"
Episode – "A Milhouse Divided"
Episode – "Lisa's Date with Density"
Episode – "Hurricane Neddy"
Episode – "El Viaje Misterioso de Nuestro Jomer"
Episode – "The Twisted World of Marge Simpson"
Episode – "Mountain of Madness"
Episode – "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show"
Episode – "Homer's Phobia"
Episode – "Brother from Another Series"
Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter"
Episode – "Homer vs. the 18th Amendment"
Episode – "Grade School Confidential"
Episode – "The Canine Mutiny"
Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"
Episode – "In Marge We Trust"
Episode – "Homer's Enemy"
Episode – "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase"
Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
Episode – "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson"
Episode – "The Principal and the Pauper"
Episode – "Lisa's Sax"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII"
Episode – "The Cartridge Family"
Episode – "Lisa the Simpson"

Director

External links

Brad Bird at the Internet Movie Database
Brad Bird at Wikipedia

Directors

view • talk • edit • past Current directors
Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino

view • talk • edit • past Former directors
Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa

view • talk • edit • past One time directors
Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Eric Koenig • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo

view • talk • edit • past Supervising directors
Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman

view • talk • edit • past Second unit directors
Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell

view • talk • edit • past Other directors
Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner

Interviewees in The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! On Ice!

view • talk • edit • past Host
Morgan Spurlock

view • talk • edit • past Cast and crew
Hank Azaria • Brad Bird • James L. Brooks • Nancy Cartwright • Dan Castellaneta • Dana Gould • Matt Groening • Al Jean • Julie Kavner • David Mirkin • Conan O'Brien • Mike Reiss • Mike Scully • Matt Selman • David Silverman • Sam Simon • Yeardley Smith • Matt Warburton

view • talk • edit • past Guest stars
Hugh Hefner • Mike Judge • Joe Mantegna • Dan Rather • Jerry Springer • Sting • Tracey Ullman • John Waters

view • talk • edit • past Opening music montage
Bellowhead • Chicha Libre • Jimmy Fallon • Flea • Eric Fraser • Sameer Gupta • Adam Lintz • Neel Murgai • The Bill Murray Experience • O.A.R. • People Under the Stairs (Double K • Thes One) • The Roots • Michael Sherman • Jonathan Stein • Andrew W.K. • ZZ Top (Billy Gibbons • Dusty Hill)

view • talk • edit • past Interviewees
Noel Bankhead* • Bruce Bryant • George H. W. Bush* • Liz Cameron • Scott Choate • David Cross • William Anthony Donohue* • Ariel Filosa • Bjarni Gautur* • Paula Gobbi • Paul Halpern • Marc Horne • Jensen • Jimmy Kimmel • Seth MacFarlane • Mark McGhee • Seth Meyers • Moby • Rusty Nails • Gavin Newsom • Trey Parker • J. Scott Peterson • Kenneth Pogson • Lucas Pouyau • Rashad Robinson • Chad Rowland • Matt Stone • Richard Sumrall • Ruth Westheimer* • Jeremy Wilcox* • Andrena Williams • Brian Williams • Glynne Williams

Difference between revisions of "Brad Bird"

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Contents

Credits

Executive consultant

Director

Storyboard

Character designer

Character layout artist

Sheet director

Interviewee

Commentary

External links