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James Ford Murphy

  • Animation Department
  • Additional Crew
  • Director
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James Ford Murphy is known for Lava (2014), The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005) and Brave (2012).
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

    Known for

    Kuana Torres Kahele in Lava (2014)
    Lava
    7.2
    Short
    • Director
    • 2014
    Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, and Martin Freeman in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    6.7
    • Animation Department
    • 2005
    Kelly Macdonald and Dina Gardner in Brave (2012)
    Brave
    7.1
    • Additional Crew
    • 2012
    Chris Evans in Lightyear (2022)
    Lightyear
    6.1
    • Additional Crew
    • 2022

    Credits

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    Animation Department

    • Billy & BamBam (2012)
      Billy & BamBam
      TV Series
      • animator
      • 2012
    • Tom Hanks, Joan Cusack, Tim Allen, John Ratzenberger, Wallace Shawn, Jodi Benson, Blake Clark, Estelle Harris, Jeff Pidgeon, Don Rickles, and Frank Welker in Toy Story 3 (2010)
      Toy Story 3
      8.3
      • fix and additional animator
      • 2010
    • Janeane Garofalo, Ian Holm, Brian Dennehy, John Ratzenberger, James Remar, Will Arnett, Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Brad Bird, Lindsey Collins, Walt Dohrn, Tony Fucile, Michael Giacchino, Bradford Lewis, Danny Mann, Teddy Newton, Patton Oswalt, Lou Romano, Peter Sohn, Jake Steinfeld, Stéphane Roux, Lori Richardson, Thomas Keller, Julius Callahan, Marco Boerries, Andrea Boerries, and Jack Bird in Ratatouille (2007)
      Ratatouille
      8.1
      • animator
      • 2007
    • Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)
      Mater and the Ghostlight
      6.5
      Video
      • supervising animator
      • 2006
    • Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Michael Keaton, Tim Allen, Katherine Helmond, Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Tony Shalhoub, Andrew Stanton, Mario Andretti, Dave Foley, John Lasseter, Jay Leno, Randy Newman, Jeremy Piven, Owen Wilson, Darla K. Anderson, Jack Angel, Michael Bell, Bob Bergen, Susan Blu, Torbin Xan Bullock, Rodger Bumpass, George Carlin, Scott Clark, Lindsey Collins, William Cone, Bob Costas, Edmund Cupcupin, John Cygan, Jennifer Darling, Paul Dooley, Paul Eiding, Bill Farmer, Brian Fee, Teresa Ganzel, Craig Good, Jan Rabson, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, Richard Kind, Jorgen Klubien, Jenifer Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Edie McClurg, Mickie McGowan, Laraine Newman, Teddy Newton, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Adrian Ochoa, Bob Pauley, Bob Peterson, Richard Petty, Steve Purcell, Guido Quaroni, Joe Ranft, Jonas Rivera, Lou Romano, Dan Scanlon, Stephen Schaffer, Ken Schretzmann, Bob Scott, Sonoko Konishi, Michael Wallis, Jim Ward, Humpy Wheeler, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Ray Magliozzi, Tom Magliozzi, Kiel Murray, Phil Lorin, Larry the Cable Guy, Darrell Waltrip, Dan Fogelman, E.J. Holowicki, Artie Kempner, Michael Schumacher, Colette Whitaker, Mike Nelson, A.J. Riebli III, Lynda Petty, Jay Ward, Elissa Knight, Larry Benton, Douglas Keever, Sarah Clark, Richard Cawood, Hooman Khalili, Kathy Coates, Erik Langley, Matty Staudt, Marco Boerries, and Andrea Boerries in Cars (2006)
      Cars
      7.3
      • animation character developer
      • directing animator
      • 2006
    • Alan Rickman, Warwick Davis, and Martin Freeman in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
      The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      6.7
      • animator
      • 2005
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Jason Lee, Craig T. Nelson, Brad Bird, Sarah Vowell, and Spencer Fox in The Incredibles (2004)
      The Incredibles
      8.0
      • animator
      • 2004
    • Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, and Barry Humphries in Finding Nemo (2003)
      Finding Nemo
      8.2
      • animator
      • 2003
    • Billy Crystal and John Goodman in Mike's New Car (2002)
      Mike's New Car
      7.0
      Video
      • animator
      • 2002
    • Billy Crystal and John Goodman in Monsters, Inc. (2001)
      Monsters, Inc.
      8.1
      • animator
      • 2001
    • For the Birds (2000)
      For the Birds
      7.9
      Short
      • supervising animator
      • 2000
    • Toy Story 2: Facing the Fear (1999)
      Toy Story 2: Facing the Fear
      Video
      • animator
      • 1999
    • Tom Hanks and Tim Allen in Toy Story 2 (1999)
      Toy Story 2
      7.9
      • animator
      • 1999
    • Denis Leary, Dave Foley, Hayden Panettiere, and Joe Ranft in A Bug's Life (1998)
      A Bug's Life
      7.2
      • additional character designer
      • animator
      • 1998
    • Heads Will Roll (1997)
      Heads Will Roll
      Short
      • animator (uncredited)
      • 1997

    Additional Crew

    • Catherine O'Hara, Thomas Newman, Jonathan Adams, Wilma Bonet, P.L. Brown, Ronnie Del Carmen, John Hoberg, Alex Kapp, Jean-Claude Kalache, Matthew Yang King, Ronobir Lahiri, Denise Ream, Stephen Schaffer, Don Shank, Peter Sohn, Kat Likkel, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Jeff LaPensee, Innocent Ekakitie, Mason Wertheimer, Clara Lin Ding, Brenda Hsueh, Shila Ommi, Leah Lewis, David Juan Bianchi, Ben Morris, Joe Pera, Mamoudou Athie, and Reagan To in Elemental (2023)
      Elemental
      7.0
      • parks and promo: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2023
    • Chris Evans in Lightyear (2022)
      Lightyear
      6.1
      • parks and promo: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2022
    • Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Tristan Allerick Chen, Ava Morse, Hyein Park, and Rosalie Chiang in Turning Red (2022)
      Turning Red
      6.9
      • parks and promo: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2022
    • Marco Barricelli, Jim Gaffigan, Maya Rudolph, Peter Sohn, Emma Berman, Jacob Tremblay, Jack Dylan Grazer, and Saverio Raimondo in Luca (2021)
      Luca
      7.4
      • custom animation production: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2021
    • Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey in Soul (2020)
      Soul
      8.0
      • custom animation production (uncredited)
      • 2020
    • Julia Louis-Dreyfus, John Ratzenberger, Tracey Ullman, Mychael Danna, Jeff Danna, Wilmer Valderrama, Catherine Apple, Sharon Calahan, Grey DeLisle, Chris Pratt, Kori Rae, Mel Rodriguez, Dan Scanlon, Octavia Spencer, Keith Bunin, Kyle Bornheimer, Noah Klocek, Lena Waithe, Adam Habib, Jason Headley, Tom Holland, Ali Wong, and George Psarras in Onward (2020)
      Onward
      7.3
      • custom animation production: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2020
    • Tom Hanks, Keanu Reeves, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale, Christina Hendricks, Keegan-Michael Key, Ally Maki, and Jordan Peele in Toy Story 4 (2019)
      Toy Story 4
      7.6
      • custom animation production: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2019
    • Samuel L. Jackson, Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Brad Bird, Michelle Rodriguez, Bill Wise, Sarah Vowell, Eli Fucile, Mina Sundwall, Clarke Wolfe, Gillian Flynn, and Huck Milner in Incredibles 2 (2018)
      Incredibles 2
      7.5
      • promotional animation (uncredited)
      • 2018
    • Alfonso Arau, Benjamin Bratt, Alanna Ubach, Gael García Bernal, Dyana Ortelli, Herbert Siguenza, and Anthony Gonzalez in Coco (2017)
      Coco
      8.4
      • promotional animation (uncredited)
      • 2017
    • Tony Shalhoub, Owen Wilson, Larry the Cable Guy, Cai Puri-Evans, Heledd Jarman, Cristela Alonzo, and Siân Eirian in Cars 3 (2017)
      Cars 3
      6.7
      • promotional animation: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2017
    • Steve Buscemi, Billy Crystal, John Goodman, Helen Mirren, Alfred Molina, Bonnie Hunt, John Ratzenberger, Dave Foley, Kathy Griffin, Sean Hayes, Jason Marsden, Randy Newman, Lori Alan, Carlos Alazraqui, Jack Angel, Robert L. Baird, Bob Bergen, Gregg Berger, Rodger Bumpass, Tara Strong, Dane Cook, John Cygan, Charlie Day, Walt Dohrn, Paul Eiding, Jessica Evans, Bill Farmer, Dannah Feinglass Phirman, Nathan Fillion, Donald Fullilove, Teresa Ganzel, Daniel Gerson, Jan Rabson, Bill Hader, Jess Harnell, Jean-Claude Kalache, John Kassir, Tyler Labine, Dawnn Lewis, Sherry Lynn, Danny Mann, Mona Marshall, Mickie McGowan, Alec Medlock, Joel Murray, Laraine Newman, Ricky Nierva, Colleen O'Shaughnessey, Bret 'Brook' Parker, Donovan Patton, Bob Peterson, Jeff Pidgeon, Kori Rae, Dan Scanlon, Greg Snyder, Peter Sohn, Mindy Sterling, Julia Sweeney, Marcia Wallace, Jim Ward, April Winchell, John Krasinski, Sean Conroy, Bobby Moynihan, Joel Spence, Patrick Seitz, Makenna Cowgill, Greg Dykstra, Keith Ferguson, Colette Whitaker, Cristina Pucelli, Brandon Johnson, Allan McLeod, Neil Campbell, Aubrey Plaza, Matthew Mercer, Andy Fischer-Price, Elissa Knight, Raymond Ochoa, Tyler Ganus, David Neher, Samantha Sadoff, Gage Davenport, Isabella Acres, Joseph John Schirle, Noah Johnston, Patrick Carlyle, Montse Hernandez, Mason Cook, Lindsay Lefler, Beth Behrs, Davin Ransom, Dave Theune, Tyree Brown, Jack Bright, Ava Acres, Madison Rothschild, Erica Teeple, Tricia McAlpin, Nikolas Michailidis, Betsy Sodaro, Aramé Scott, Gia Michailidis, Mike Hanford, Kristen Li, Pam Murphy, Casey Barden, Natalie Jane Dang, Ethan Louis Samuels DiSalvio, Brooke Klinger, Alexis Poindexter, Ileanna Bravos, Clayton Drier, Faith Goblirsch, Calum John, Marley Pearson, Khiara Symone Threets, and Kristen Phaneuf in Monsters University (2013)
      Monsters University
      7.2
      • film production resources (uncredited)
      • 2013
    • Kelly Macdonald and Dina Gardner in Brave (2012)
      Brave
      7.1
      • film production resources: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2012
    • Michael Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Katherine Helmond, Bonnie Hunt, Joe Mantegna, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Tony Shalhoub, John Turturro, Kathy Griffin, Jason Isaacs, John Lasseter, Owen Wilson, Livio Badurina, Senka Bulic, Bruce Campbell, Paul Dooley, Teresa Gallagher, Jeff Garlin, Michael Giacchino, Jeff Gordon, Zijad Gračić, David Hobbs, Eddie Izzard, Peter Jacobson, Harley Jessup, Pero Juricic, Richard Kind, Thomas Kretschmann, Bradford Lewis, Jenifer Lewis, Leon Lučev, Lela Margitic, Edie McClurg, Emily Mortimer, Brent Musburger, Franco Nero, Dora Polic, Zarko Potocnjak, Alma Prica, Guido Quaroni, Ben Queen, Joe Ranft, Denise Ream, Zarko Savic, Stephen Schaffer, Sonoko Konishi, Velibor Topic, Zvonimir Torjanac, Stanley Townsend, Michael Wallis, Ljubo Zecevic, Ronald Zlabur, Tarik Filipovic, Daisuke 'Dice' Tsutsumi, Lloyd Sherr, Larry the Cable Guy, Darrell Waltrip, Dan Fogelman, Patrick Walker, Jess Fulton, Lewis Hamilton, Sig Hansen, John Mainieri, Claudia Leitte, Michel Michelis, Gillian Bolt, Ivan Saric, Stéphan Macchi, Kristen Phaneuf, and Catie Bolt in Cars 2 (2011)
      Cars 2
      6.2
      • film production resources: Pixar Studio Team
      • 2011

    Director

    • Justin Cabanting in McDonald's 'Lightyear: It's Lunch' Lightyear Commercial (2022)
      McDonald's 'Lightyear: It's Lunch' Lightyear Commercial
      TV Special
      • Director
      • 2022
    • Pixar Popcorn (2021)
      Pixar Popcorn
      6.5
      TV Mini Series
      • directed by
      • 2021
    • Cars 3: Cars D'oeuvres (2017)
      Cars 3: Cars D'oeuvres
      7.5
      Video
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool (2017)
      Miss Fritter's Racing Skoool
      5.0
      Video
      • Director
      • 2017
    • Kuana Torres Kahele in Lava (2014)
      Lava
      7.2
      Short
      • Director
      • 2014
    • Greg Ellis in Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future (2002)
      Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future
      6.8
      TV Series
      • Director (as James Ford)
      • 2002

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      • James Ford

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