Christopher Michael Sanders (born March 12, 1962) is an American filmmaker, animator, and voice actor. His credits include Lilo & Stitch (2002) and its live-action adaptation 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 character Stitch in 1985, wrote the film's story, and voiced Stitch in almost all his media appearances. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chris Sanders, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2028Lilo & Stitch 2 — Stitch (voice), Writer, Director
• 2027How to Train Your Dragon 2 — Executive Producer
• 2026Lilo & Scratch — Stitch (voice)
• 2025How to Train Your Dragon — Executive Producer
• 2025Lilo & Stitch — Stitch (voice), Original Film Writer
• 2025The Bad Guys 2 — Thanks
• 2024The Wild Robot — Screenplay, Director
• 2023Once Upon a Studio — Stitch (voice) (archive sound)
• How Not to Draw — Stitch (voice)
• 2022Puss in Boots: The Last Wish — Thanks
• The Croods: Family Tree — Creator
• 2020The Call of the Wild — Director
• 2020The Croods: A New Age — Belt (voice), Characters, Story
• 2019How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World — Executive Producer
• 2017The Boss Baby — Thanks
• Dawn of the Croods — Belt (voice), Additional Voices (voice)
• 2014How to Train Your Dragon 2 — Executive Producer
• 2014Penguins of Madagascar — Antarctic Penguin (voice)
• 2013The Croods — Belt (voice), Screenplay, Director, Story
• DreamWorks Dragons — Creator
• 2010How to Train Your Dragon — Director, Screenplay
• Stitch! — Creator
• 2006Leroy & Stitch — Stitch / Leroy (voice), Characters
• 2005Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has a Glitch — Stitch (voice), Characters
• 2005The Origin of Stitch — Stitch (voice), Characters
• 2004The Lion King 1½ — Additional Voices (voice)
• 2004The Story Room: The Making of 'Lilo & Stitch' — Self, Director
• 2004Timon & Pumbaa Virtual Safari 2.0 — Experiment 626 / Stitch (voice) (archive footage)
• Lilo & Stitch: The Series — Stitch (voice), Characters, Creator
• 2003Stitch! The Movie — Stitch (voice), Characters
• 2002Lilo & Stitch — Stitch (voice), Director, Character Designer, Idea, Writer
• 2002Lilo & Stitch Read-Along — Stitch (voice)
• 1999Tarzan — Additional Voices (voice)
• 1998Mulan — Screenplay, Story Supervisor
• Agent Z and the Penguin from Mars — Park Keeper
• 1995Toy Story — Character Designer
• 1994The Lion King — Production Design, Story
• 1992Aladdin — Story
• 1991Beauty and the Beast — Story, Visual Development
• 1990The Rescuers Down Under — Storyboard, Visual Development
• 1988Garfield: His 9 Lives — Other
• 1984Toby the Badly Animated Boy — Director
• 1983Fun with Father — Animation, Writer, Director
• The Wild Robot Escapes — Screenplay, Executive Producer

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2009Waking Sleeping Beauty — Self (archive footage)