# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/barry-cook
# Generated: 2026-08-13T00:45:28.498Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/barry-cook"
name: "Barry Cook"
slug: "barry-cook"
description: "Barry Cook is an American film director who has worked in the animated film industry since the late 1970s. Cook and Tony Bancroft directed Mulan (1998), for which they won the 1998 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. Cook was also the co-director for Arthur Christmas (2011), directed by Sarah Smith. Cook also directed Walking with Dinosaurs (2013) with Neil Nightingale."
tagline: "American film director and effects animator"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/y0lmcTr8fkC0jsfIJxNrUSSUzPn.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1958-08-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.63
  momentum:             0.1004566210045662
  historical:           6.839816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0176905/"
    handle:    "nm0176905"
sources:
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    title: "بیری کک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "باري كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بارى كوك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cook"
    title: "Barry Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cook"
    title: "Barry Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Cook"
    title: "Barry Cook"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%90%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%83%E3%82%AF"
    title: "バリー・クック"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11853913"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66191"
    title: "Barry Cook"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump