---
name: "Daniel St. Pierre"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/dan-st-pierre"
fi1m_id: "dan-st-pierre"
imdb_id: "nm0820800"
tmdb_id: 15780
wikidata_id: "Q5218823"
roles: ["Layout"]
born: "4 July 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 5
average_fi1m_score: 74
average_over: 5
updated: "2026-10-05T03:31:30.427523+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."
---

# Daniel St. Pierre

## Identity

Daniel St. Pierre

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/dan-st-pierre
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** dan-st-pierre
- **IMDb ID:** nm0820800
- **TMDB ID:** 15780
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5218823
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_St._Pierre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5218823, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820800/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15780

Layout. Born 4 July 1961 in Newark.

## Details

- **Work:** Layout
- **Born:** 4 July 1961, Newark
- **Active:** 1989–2004
- **Also known as:** Dan St. Pierre
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 80 (1), 1990s 83 (3), 2000s 40 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 74 to 70 across 5 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 5, Family 5, Fantasy 3, Adventure 2, Romance 2, Action 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,956m across 5 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_St._Pierre, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5218823, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0820800/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15780

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Shark Tale*](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md) (40)

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

## Biography

Daniel St. Pierre, also credited as Dan St. Pierre, is an American film director, art director, production designer, animator and musician. He studied at California State University, Northridge, and began working in animation in the early 1980s on television series including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. In 1989 he joined Walt Disney Feature Animation, contributing layout to The Little Mermaid (1989), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Aladdin (1992).

As art director on Tarzan (1999) he helped develop the Deep Canvas technique. He later worked at DreamWorks Animation and served as production designer on Shark Tale (2004). His directing credits include Everyone's Hero (2006), which he completed with Colin Brady, Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey (2010) and Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return (2014). He received a 1999 Annie Award nomination for production design on Tarzan.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, castfacts.com.*

## On Fi1m (5)

- *Shark Tale* (2004), Fi1m 40, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *Tarzan* (1999), Fi1m 77, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan.md)
- *Aladdin* (1992), Fi1m 82, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), Fi1m 91, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/beauty-and-the-beast.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), Fi1m 80, Layout — [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Underground Rock Experience* (2022), Storyboard Artist
- *Legends of Oz: Dorothy's Return* (2014), Director, Production Design, Additional Writing
- *Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey* (2010), as Core Deck Officer #1 (voice) · Director
- *Everyone's Hero* (2006), Director, Production Design
- *Shark Tale* (2004), Production Design — Fi1m 40, [page](https://film.one/film/shark-tale.md)
- *One by One* (2004), Layout Supervisor
- *Tarzan* (1999), as Art Direction — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/tarzan.md)
- *Elijah* (1993), Story Artist
- *Aladdin* (1992), as Layout — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)
- *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), as Layout — Fi1m 91, [page](https://film.one/film/beauty-and-the-beast.md)
- *The Little Mermaid* (1989), as Layout — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/film/the-little-mermaid-1989.md)
- *Propagandance* (1987), Original Music Composer
- *Beijing Safari*, Writer, Director

## Gallery

- ![Daniel St. Pierre](https://film.one/media/person/397621/gallery-e86e6c9e6a2d.png) Daniel St. Pierre — Thibaut Ponamalé, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9e/Daniel_St._Pierre.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Daniel St. Pierre](https://film.one/media/person/397621/gallery-1759a5daa5dd.jpg) Daniel St. Pierre — Image via TMDB

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