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Home/People/Thor Freudenthal
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Born
Oct 20, 1972
Age 53
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Known For
Directing
Gender
Male

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Thor Freudenthal

Directing

Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Thor Freudenthal (born c. 1972/1973) is a German director, screenwriter and generally works with films. Freudenthal was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. He attended the Berlin Academy of Arts, and later moved to Southern California as an exchange student at CalArts. He started out as an animation director on short films like Mind the Gap, Monkey Business and The Tenor. He also worked on conceptal/visual art work at Sony Pictures Imageworks on films like Stuart Little, The ChubbChubbs! and Stuart Little 2. He latter worked as Second Unit Director on Disney's The Haunted Mansion. In 2005, he directed the short film Motel which was his first live-action film. He then worked as director on Hotel for Dogs in 2009 for DreamWorks Pictures. He directed the live-action/animated feature film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the book by Jeff Kinney. Description above from the Wikipedia article Thor Freudenthal, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs' poster

A Home for Everyone: The Making of 'Hotel for Dogs'

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