John LasseterFilmography

Born:: January 1, 1957
Occupation:: Director, Executive Producer, Screen Story, Screenwriter
Biography:: A pioneer of modern animation, notably the computer-generated animation that dominated the mid- to late '90s, John Lasseter started out doing traditional hand-drawn work. His passion for animation began in high school and, after writing an exuberant letter to Disney Studios, he started studying...Read More

Current News:: Review: `Princess and the Frog' is a hearty hop
Nov. 24, 2009 8:51 AM ET (AP)

Sort By:
Title
Release Date

The Princess and the Frog

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Anika Noni Rose, Bruno Campos, David Keith, Michael-Leon Wooley, Jim Cummings

Synopsis: After being summoned back to the Mouse House by Pixar founder John Lasseter in 2006, Alladin and Treasure Planet directors Ron Clements and John Musker join forces once again for this traditionally animated 2-D fantasy for the entire family, set in New Orleans. Former Dreamgirl Anika Noni Rose Read More

11/25/09
Up

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ed Asner, Christopher Plummer, John Ratzenberger, Bob Peterson, Jordan Nagai, Delroy Lindo

Synopsis: A feisty septuagenarian teams with a fearless wilderness ranger to do battle with a vicious band of beasts and villains in this computer-animated adventure scripted by Pixar veteran Bob Peterson and co-directed by Peterson and Monsters, Inc. director Peter Docter. Carl Fredricksen is a 78-year-old Read More

5/29/09
Waking Sleeping Beauty

Synopsis: Walt Disney Pictures has been the leading name in animated filmmaking since the 1930s, but the studio's crown was looking more than a little tarnished in the 1980s after a series of expensive commercial and critical disappointments such as The Fox and the Hound, The Black Cauldron and The Great Read More

2009
Prep & Landing

Crew: Executive Producer

2009
Tokyo Mater

Crew: Director

Actors: Larry the Cable Guy

Synopsis: Inspired by the hit 2006 film Cars, the Disney Digital 3-D short film Tokyo Mater follows Lightning McQueen's rusted yet trusted pal Mater the tow truck (voice of Larry the Cable Guy) as he enters the high-stakes world of Japanese drift racing. A routine tow job has landed Mater in Tokyo, and now Read More

12/12/08
Bolt

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Travolta, Miley Cyrus, Susie Essman, Mark Walton, Malcolm McDowell

Synopsis: From Walt Disney Animation Studios comes Bolt, the tale of a superstar TV pup (voiced by John Travolta) who gets plopped in the middle of America with seemingly no way back to the glam and glitz of Hollywood. Thanks to his starring role on a hit television show, Bolt the pooch has become a Read More

11/21/08
Ponyo

Crew: Executive Producer, Voice Director

Actors: Noah Cyrus, Yuria Nara, Frankie Jonas, Hiroki Doi, Tina Fey, Tomoko Yamaguchi, Matt Damon, Kazushige Nagashima, Cate Blanchett, Yuki Amami, Liam Neeson, George Tokoro

Synopsis: Acclaimed anime master Hayao Miyazaki returns for his ninth animated feature with Ponyo, which deals with a friendship between a five-year-old boy and a goldfish princess who yearns to be human. The daughter of the king of the ocean, Ponyo is no ordinary goldfish -- she has all the magic of the Read More

7/19/08
WALL-E

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Ben Burtt, Elissa Knight, Jeff Garlin, Fred Willard, Macintalk

Synopsis: Disney and Pixar join forces for this computer-animated tale about a wide-eyed robot who travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend. The year is 2700, and planet Earth has long been uninhabitable. For hundreds of years, WALL-E (Waste Allocation Load Lifter Read More

6/27/08
Tinker Bell

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Mae Whitman, Kristin Chenoweth, Raven Symone, America Ferrera, Lucy Liu

Synopsis: Before joining Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, Tinker Bell and her fairy brethren were busy creating their own special magic in Pixie Hollow, where they go about the business of bringing rainbows to the sky, color to the flowers, and adding their fairy signature to other miracles of nature. Each Read More

2008
Ratatouille

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Patton Oswalt, Ian Holm, Lou Romano, Brian Dennehy, Peter Sohn

Synopsis: A scrawny rat named Remy (voice of Patton Oswalt) finds his dreams of culinary superstardom stirring up sizable controversy in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant in director Brad Bird's madcap computer-animated comedy. It's hard being a rat with culinary aspirations, but Remy is convinced he Read More

6/29/07
Meet the Robinsons

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck

Synopsis: An orphan who dreams of someday finding a family to call his own finds his fate taking an unexpected turn when a mysterious stranger named Wilbur Robinson transports him into the future. Based on the book A Day With Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce, Meet the Robinsons tells the story of a boy with Read More

3/30/07
The Pixar Story

Actors: Brad Bird, Loren Carpenter, Ed Catmull, Diane Disney Miller, Roy Edward Disney

Synopsis: Famed cartoonist Ub Iwerks's granddaughter Leslie turns the camera lens on the artists and storytellers behind some of the most widely hailed animated films of the modern era in the in-depth documentary The Pixar Story. Featuring such key members as John Lasseter, Steve Jobs, and George Lucas, the Read More

2007
Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco

Actors: Chris Columbus, Francis Ford Coppola, Clint Eastwood, George Lucas, Saul Zaentz

Synopsis: While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their independence and carefully guard their creative Read More

2007
Cars

Crew: Director, Screen Story, Screenwriter

Actors: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Cheech Marin

Synopsis: A pedal-to-the-metal race car determined to prove his worth on the tracks discovers that life isn't always about crossing the finish line first in Toy Story director John Lasseter's mechanically minded tale of friendship and loyalty. Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson) may be just a rookie Read More

6/9/06
The Incredibles

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Directed by Brad Bird, The Incredibles revolves around former high-profile superhero Bob Parr (aka Mr. Incredible), who has not-so-successfully settled into suburban life along with his wife and kids under the watchful eye of the Superhero Protection Program. A far cry from the "glory days" Read More

11/5/04
Finding Nemo

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Willem Dafoe, Brad Garrett

Synopsis: Andrew Stanton, who helped write Toy Story and Monsters, Inc., co-wrote and directed this computer-animated comedy-adventure about finding a very small fish in a very large ocean. Marlin (voice of Albert Brooks) is a more-than-slightly paranoid Clown Fish who is extremely devoted to his young son Read More

5/30/03
Monsters, Inc.

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: John Goodman, Billy Crystal, Mary Gibbs, Steve Buscemi, James Coburn

Synopsis: After exploring the worlds of toys and bugs in the two Toy Story films and A Bug's Life, the award-winning computer animation company Pixar delves into the realm of monsters with its fourth feature. Hulking, blue-furred behemoth James P. "Sully" Sullivan (John Goodman) and his one-eyed assistant Read More

11/2/01
Spirited Away

Crew: Executive Producer

Actors: Rumi Hiiragi, Daveigh Chase, Miyu Irino, Jason Marsden, Suzanne Pleshette, Mari Natsuki, Susan Egan, Yumi Tamai, Yasuka Sawaguchi, David Ogden Stiers

Synopsis: Master animation director Hayao Miyazaki follows up on his record-breaking 1997 opus Princess Mononoke with this surreal Alice in Wonderland-like tale about a lost little girl. The film opens with ten-year-old Chihiro riding along during a family outing as her father races through remote country Read More

7/20/01
Toy Story 2

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles

Synopsis: Woody the Cowboy, Buzz Lightyear, and the rest of their friends from the toy box return in this computer-animated sequel to the 1995 hit Toy Story. This time around, Andy, the young boy who is the proud owner of most of our cast of characters, is off at summer camp, giving the toys a few weeks off Read More

11/19/99
The Hand Behind the Mouse: The Ub Iwerks Story

Actors: Kelsey Grammer

Synopsis: Directed by Iwerks' granddaughter, this documentary seeks to highlight the cinematic accomplishments of Ub Iwerks, a forgotten genius overshadowed by the towering presence of Walt Disney. The details include his early life in Missouri, his teaming up with Disney, and the creation of his most Read More

1999
A Bug's Life

Crew: Director, Screen Story

Actors: Dave Foley, Kevin Spacey, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hayden Panettiere, Phyllis Diller

Synopsis: John Lasseter, director of Pixar's movie phenomenon Toy Story, has set new standards in computer animation with this effort, another Disney-released children's epic entitled A Bug's Life. Blending classic Disney storytelling characters and the mysterious underground world of bugs, Lasseter has Read More

11/20/98
Toy Story

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn

Synopsis: Toy Story was the first feature-length film animated entirely by computer. If this seems to be a sterile, mechanical means of moviemaking, be assured that the film is as chock-full of heart and warmth as any Disney cartoon feature. The star of the proceedings is Woody, a pull-string cowboy toy Read More

11/22/95
Knick Knack

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Pixar animator John Lasseter pays special tribute to the genius of Chuck Jones with this computer animated short about a snow-globe snowman that discovers life on the outside isn't all that it's cracked up to be. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

1989
Tin Toy

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Synopsis: The credits list at the end of Tin Toy is almost as long as the film itself. This 5-minute exercise in stop-motion photography "stars" a drum-major toy by the name of Tinny. Bedevilled by a destructive baby, Tinny does his best to avoid his toddling tormentor. But when baby falls down and hurts Read More

1988
Red's Dream

Crew: Director

Synopsis: A lonely unicycle sits in the back corner of Eban's Bikes dreaming of the one day that a talented clown might walk into the shop and recognize its potential in this Pixar short that found animators dealing with such challenging issues as rendering nighttime scenes and creating realistic rain. When Read More

1987
Luxo Jr.

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: Inspired by the architect's lamp that adorned his desk at the time he was learning to make models, animator John Lasseter crafted this Academy Award-nominated short film concerning a diminutive lamp that discovers a fun new toy, and the elder illuminator that watches amused from its desktop perch. Read More

1986
The Adventures of André and Wally B.

Crew: Animator

Synopsis: A Lucasfilm production that holds the unique distinction of being the first 3-D animated film that key Pixar player John Lasseter ever worked on, André and Wally B uses geometric shapes to tell the story of a clever forest dweller who unwisely draws the ire of a fast-flying bee. ~ Jason Buchanan Read More

1984