Bruce Morris
Feature film writer, director and story designer

Bruce Morris started telling stories to his parents when he was a child. Occasionally, some of them were even true.

Afraid of anything that smacked of real work, Mr. Morris learned to draw and how to tell stories visually. This launched his career at the Walt Disney Studios as an animator, and he subsequently used his unique visuals and storytelling ability to get into the Disney Animation Story Department.
Believing firmly in the “Poetry of visuals” and the “Character of dialogue,” to date he has been a key writer and visual storyteller on over fourteen animated features including “The Great Mouse Detective”, “The Little Mermaid”, “Pocahontas”, "Hercules”, “Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron”, “Finding Nemo”, “Curious George”, “Planet 51”, and “The Princess and the Frog”.

In addition to his animation feature work, Bruce has written, produced and directed for animated television series, designed and storyboarded for such live action tentpoles as “X-Men Days of Future Past”, “Hercules”, “Finding Christopher Robin and Clifford the Big Red Dog” and has embraced the world of Virtual Reality conceiving and designing the VR short “Raising a Ruckus” for Steven Speilberg.

He is currently writing on the young adult fantasy book cycle “Dimitri’s Garden” and writing a feature, “Betty 99”.

He is an alumni and past professor of Story Development for California Institute of the Arts and a member of the Animation Writers of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.