# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/chris-sanders
# Generated: 2026-09-06T20:05:35.080Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/chris-sanders"
name: "Chris Sanders"
slug: "chris-sanders"
description: "Christopher Michael Sanders 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."
tagline: "American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor (born 1962)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Chris_Sanders_2012.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1962-03-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             9.480949024555946
  historical:           22.26966666666667
  currentAttention:     42.81672910772995
  sourceConfidence:     95
  profileCompleteness:  90
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 59
totalFollowers: 7750
platforms:
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    handle:    "chrissandersart"
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    handle:    "chrissandersart"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
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    handle:    "@chrissandersart"
    followers: 7750
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    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "مايكل ساندرز"
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    title: "مايكل ساندرز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Քրիս Սանդերս"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Sanders (regista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "クリス・サンダース"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "크리스 샌더스"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Chris Sanders"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/66193"
    title: "Chris Sanders"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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