---
name: "Chris Garbutt"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/chris-garbutt"
fi1m_id: "chris-garbutt"
imdb_id: "nm2407934"
tmdb_id: 2206032
wikidata_id: "Q136031452"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "2 July 1981"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-24T02:23:51.736509+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."
---

# Chris Garbutt

## Identity

Chris Garbutt

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/chris-garbutt
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** chris-garbutt
- **IMDb ID:** nm2407934
- **TMDB ID:** 2206032
- **Wikidata ID:** Q136031452
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136031452, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2407934/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2206032

Writer. Born 2 July 1981 in Bristol.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 2 July 1981, Bristol
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q136031452, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2407934/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2206032

## Coming up

- *Bad Fairies* (2027-05-20), Head of Story

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Amazing World of Gumball*](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md) (82)

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

## Biography

Chris Garbutt is an English animator, writer, director, art director and producer. He wrote episodes of the animated series *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011) and worked as a storyboard artist on its first season.

He graduated with a first-class degree in Graphic Arts and Illustration from Leeds Metropolitan University. Garbutt has worked in animation for over twenty years on projects including *Robotboy*, *Stressed Eric* and *Mr. Bean: The Animated Series*, holding roles from storyboarding and character design to writing and directing.

With collaborator Rikke Asbjoern he co-created the Netflix/Nickelodeon series *Pinky Malinky* (2018–2019), serving as co-executive producer, showrunner and art director, and the Netflix interactive special *We Lost Our Human* (2023), on which he was co-writer, co-director and co-executive producer. He is head of story on the forthcoming *Bad Fairies*.

*Sources: imdb.com, theamazingworldofgumball.fandom.com, commons.wikimedia.org, manchesteranimationfestival.co.uk, shoutoutla.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), Fi1m 82, Writer, Storyboard — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Bad Fairies* (2027), Head of Story
- *Smurfs* (2025), Story Artist
- *We Lost Our Human* (2023), Writer, Executive Producer, Director, Art Direction, Storyboard Artist, Creator
- *Pinky Malinky* (2019), series, Co-Executive Producer, Art Direction, Creator
- *The Amazing World of Gumball* (2011), series, Storyboard, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-amazing-world-of-gumball.md)
- *Verne on Vacation* (2011), Background Designer
- *The Fairly OddParents* (2001), series, Storyboard Artist

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