Benjamin Gluck

Benjamin Gluck (also known as Ben Gluck) is an American animation director, screenwriter, and storyboard artist. He was a director at Disney Animation.

Gluck was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Film and Animation from California Institute of the Arts. In 1996, his student short film Man's Best Friend, was awarded the esteemed Walter Lantz Award. That film premiered worldwide in heavy rotation on MTV's network, and received many top awards in the US and International film circuits and toured worldwide in Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Animation Festival.

Gluck started his career as the very first story trainee at DreamWorks Feature Animation where he worked on the film, The Prince of Egypt. Shortly after, he was recruited by Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he worked for over a decade as a storyboard artist. Gluck was the first Head of Story for Disney-Toon Studios and director of Brother Bear 2 - this film is Disney's second direct-to-video sequel to have a higher rating on Rotten Tomatoes than its predecessor. Gluck directed the CGI animated theatrical feature film Alpha and Omega for Lionsgate Family Entertainment – launching nine film sequels and a global franchise. Gluck was Head of Story on the science fiction animated feature film 9 executive produced by Tim Burton.

1995:

• Won for short "Man's Best Friend" in Walter Lantz Award

• Man's Best Friend (TV) (1996)
• Rugrats (TV) (2000)
• Clerks (TV) (2000)
• Skunk Fu (TV) (2007-2008)