Chris Sanders

Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and How to Train Your Dragon (2010), both of which he co-wrote and directed with Dean DeBlois; The Croods (2013) with Kirk DeMicco; and The Wild Robot (2024), receiving nominations for the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature for all of them. In 2020, he made his live-action directorial debut with the adventure-drama The Call of the Wild. He created the popular Disney character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in most of his media appearances. As of 2025, he is working on sequels to The Wild Robot for DreamWorks and the live-action Lilo & Stitch for Walt Disney Studios.

Christopher Michael Sanders was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on March 12, 1962. He had been intensely interested in comic strips and filmmaking, especially animation, from an early age. He was the only one of three siblings in his family to borrow his father's Super 8 film camera and, with encouragement from his father towards his drawing interests, make his own comics. He later got interested in animation upon learning about the camera's single-frame feature. He went to Arvada High School in Arvada, Colorado. He initially wanted to take art classes at the school but was dissuaded when he asked the art teacher to teach him cartooning, only for the teacher to reply, "Comics aren't art." Sanders later attended the California Institute of the Arts, graduating in 1984.

Animation department Executive producer How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019) How to Train Your Dragon (2025) Voice-acting credits Voice actor === Video games ===

Born 1962-03-12 in Colorado Springs, Colorado, USA.

On ThumbScore, Chris Sanders appears in 8 films with an average audience score of 77.6%, most frequently in the Family genre.

Sources: Wikipedia, TMDB