克里斯·巴克 （Chris Buck） 是一位以执导《人猿泰山》和《冲浪者》而闻名的电影导演。他还曾担任《牧场上的家》和《小鸡》的动画监督。

巴克在迪斯尼的其他作品包括 1995 年的动画长片《波卡洪塔斯》，在那里他监督了三个中心角色的动画：珀西、柳树祖母和威金斯。巴克还帮助设计了1989年动画大片《小美人鱼》的角色，为《地下救援队》和《谁陷害了兔子罗杰》制作了实验动画，并且是《狐狸与猎犬》的动画师。

巴克在Hyperion Pictures帮助开发了几部电影，并担任了电影《Bebe's Kids》的导演动画师。他为导演蒂姆·伯顿（Tim Burton）的真人电影《科学怪人》（Frankenweenie）制作了故事板，并再次与伯顿合作，担任布拉德·伯德（Brad Bird）执导的史蒂文·斯皮尔伯格（Steven Spielberg）的《神奇故事》（Amazing Stories）的“家庭狗”（Family Dog）一集的导演，并担任随后黄金时段动画系列的导演。

巴克的作品包括为洛杉矶的制作实体（如FilmFair，Kurtz & Friends和Duck Soup）制作了许多动画广告（包括一些与Keebler Elves合作的广告）。

巴克出生于堪萨斯州威奇托市，曾在加州艺术学院学习了两年的角色动画，并于 1988 年至 1993 年在那里任教。

Chris Buck is a film director known for directing Tarzan and Surf's Up. He also worked as supervising animator on Home on the Range and Chicken Little.

Buck's other credits at Disney include the 1995 animated feature Pocahontas, where he oversaw the animation of three central characters: Percy, Grandmother Willow and Wiggins. Buck also helped design characters for the 1989 animated blockbuster The Little Mermaid, performed experimental animation for The Rescuers Down Under and Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, and was an animator on The Fox and the Hound.

Buck helped develop several films at Hyperion Pictures and served as a directing animator on the feature Bebe's Kids. He storyboarded director Tim Burton's live-action featurette Frankenweenie and worked with Burton again as directing animator on the Brad Bird-directed "Family Dog" episode of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and as director of the subsequent primetime animated series.

Buck's credits include a number of animated commercials (including some with the Keebler Elves) for such Los Angeles-based production entities as FilmFair, Kurtz & Friends, and Duck Soup.

A native of Wichita, Kansas, Buck studied character animation for two years at CalArts, where he also taught from 1988–1993.