Kelly Asbury

Kelly Adam Asbury (born January 15, 1960 in Beaumont, Texas) is an American film director, screenwriter, voice actor, published children's book author/illustrator, and non-fiction author/historian.

He attended Lamar University for two years before, in 1980, transferring to the renowned California Institute of the Arts, where he studied animation and filmmaking. He is known for being an artist in a variety of capacities on many animated movies and directed the two Academy Award nominated feature films Shrek 2 (2004) and Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002).

In addition to directing, Asbury provided some of the extra voices in Shrek 2 and Shrek the Third. He has written a non-fiction book entitled Dummy Days, which is a biography of five 20th century ventriloquists.

He recently co-wrote and directed the popular animated movie entitled Gnomeo and Juliet (2011), for which he also provided the voices of the tiny Red Goon Gnomes. He was recently nominated for two Annie Awards for directing and co-writing that film.

Filmography

• Gnomeo and Juliet (2011 - director, story and screenplay, voice of Red Goon Gnomes)
• Shrek the Third (2007 - voice of Master of Ceremonies and Fiddlesworth)
• Shrek 2 (2004 - director, additional voices, ADR group)
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (2002 - director)
• Shrek (2001 - story artist)
• Chicken Run (2000 - additional story)
• The Prince of Egypt (1998 - artistic supervisor: story)
• "James and the Giant Peach" - (1995 - artistic supervisor: story)
• Toy Story (1995 - story artist)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993 - assistant art director)
• Beauty and the Beast (1992 - story, visual development artist)
• Roller Coaster Rabbit (1990 - art director)
• The Rescuers Down Under (1990 - character designer, storyboard artist, visual development)
• The Little Mermaid (1989 - visual development artist)
• The Black Cauldron (1985 - inbetween artist)

External links

• Kelly Asbury at Internet Movie Database