---
name: "Alan Smart"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alan-smart"
fi1m_id: "alan-smart"
imdb_id: "nm0806640"
tmdb_id: 1217856
wikidata_id: "Q2830590"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "10 October 1963"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T20:27:18.429638+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Alan Smart

## Identity

Alan Smart

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/alan-smart
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** alan-smart
- **IMDb ID:** nm0806640
- **TMDB ID:** 1217856
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2830590
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217856

Director. Born 10 October 1963 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 10 October 1963, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 1988–1999
- **Also known as:** Alan E. Smart, Allan Smart
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 directing, 1 crew
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Smart, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2830590, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0806640/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1217856

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Alan Smart (born 10 October 1963) is a retired American animator and animation director. He is known for his work as supervising director on the animated series *SpongeBob SquarePants* (1999–2021), having contributed from the pilot episode, and for his roles as assistant director, layout artist and director on *The Simpsons* (1989), including the episode 'Flaming Moe's' (1991).

Smart has worked as an animation director or in other animation roles on series including *Rugrats* (1991–1998), *Rocko's Modern Life* (1993–1996), *Hey Arnold!* (1996), *CatDog* (1998), *The Critic* (1994) and *Clone High* (2002–2003). He contributed to animated films such as *The Little Mermaid* (1989), *Oliver & Company* (1988) and *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* (2004). He received multiple Emmy Award nominations for his work on *SpongeBob SquarePants*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, televisionacademy.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Directed (1) — the average rests on these

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Oliver & Company* (1988), Fi1m 61, Other — [page](https://film.one/film/oliver-and-company.md)

## Complete filmography (36)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Order Up* (2025), Animation Director, Supervising Art Director
- *The Patrick Star Show* (2021), series, Animation Director
- *SpongeBob’s Big Birthday Blowout* (2019), Animation Director
- *SpongeBob LongPants* (2016), Animation
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: SpongeBob, You're Fired!* (2014), Director
- *SpongeBob’s Runaway Roadtrip* (2011), Animation Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Legends of Bikini Bottom* (2010), Animation Director
- *The Great Patty Caper* (2010), Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Triton's Revenge* (2010), Director
- *SpongeBob's Truth or Square* (2009), Animation Director
- *Ed, Edd n Eddy's Big Picture Show* (2009), Animation Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Spongicus* (2009), Animation Director
- *SpongeBob's WhoBob WhatPants* (2008), Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Pest of the West* (2008), Director
- *SpongeBob's Atlantis SquarePantis* (2007), Director
- *Spongebob Squarepants: Friend or Foe?* (2007), Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants: Where's Gary?* (2005), Director
- *Spongebob Squarepants: Fear of a Krabby Patty* (2005), Animation Director
- *The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie* (2004), Animation Director
- *My Life with Morrissey* (2003), as Stan
- *Clone High* (2002), series, Animation Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants - Nautical Nonsense and Sponge Buddies* (2002), Animation Director
- *SpongeBob SquarePants* (1999), series, Animation Director, Director
- *CatDog* (1998), series, Director
- *Nightmare Ned* (1997), series, Director
- *Hey Arnold!* (1996), series, Director
- *The Critic* (1994), series, Director
- *Recycle Rex* (1993), as Other
- *Box-Office Bunny* (1991), Animation
- *Bobby's World* (1990), series, as Other
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), Animation — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)
- *Oliver & Company* (1988), as Other — Fi1m 61, [page](https://film.one/film/oliver-and-company.md)
- *Technological Threat* (1988), Character Designer
- *The Chipmunk Adventure* (1987), Animation
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, Animation

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