---
name: "David Bowers"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/david-bowers"
fi1m_id: "david-bowers"
imdb_id: "nm0101047"
tmdb_id: 33183
wikidata_id: "Q18558"
roles: ["Story consultant","Director"]
born: "28 June 1970"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-01T19:07:18.570892+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."
---

# David Bowers

## Identity

David Bowers

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/david-bowers
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** david-bowers
- **IMDb ID:** nm0101047
- **TMDB ID:** 33183
- **Wikidata ID:** Q18558
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowers_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101047/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33183

Story consultant and director. Born 28 June 1970 in Cheshire, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Story consultant, Director
- **Born:** 28 June 1970, Cheshire, England, UK
- **Active:** 1992–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 1 writing, 1 crew
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 64 (1), 2000s 64 (1), 2020s 64 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowers_(director), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18558, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0101047/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/33183

## Streaming the US now

- **Netflix:** [*Flushed Away*](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md) (64)

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

## Biography

David Bowers is a British animator, film director and screenwriter. Born in Cheshire, England, he studied fine art at Chester School of Art and animation at West Surrey College of Art and Design. His first credited work was as an inbetweener on *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1988). He subsequently worked at Cosgrove Hall on television series including *Danger Mouse* and *Duckula*, and at Amblimation on features such as *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* (1991) and *Balto* (1995).

Bowers moved to DreamWorks Animation and later collaborated with Aardman Animations, contributing storyboards to *Chicken Run* (2000) and *Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit* (2005). He co-directed his first feature, *Flushed Away* (2006), with Sam Fell. Subsequent directing credits include *Astro Boy* (2009), *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules* (2011), *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days* (2012) and *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul* (2017). He has received BAFTA nominations for his work.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *Flushed Away* (2006), Fi1m 64, as Goldfish / Fly / Shocky / Henchfrog #1 / Tadpole (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)

### Wrote (1)

- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Fi1m 64, Story Consultant — [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)

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

- *FernGully: The Last Rainforest* (1992), Fi1m 64, Animation — [page](https://film.one/film/ferngully-the-last-rainforest.md)

## Complete filmography (13)

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

- *Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget* (2023), Story Consultant — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/chicken-run-dawn-of-the-nugget.md)
- *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul* (2017), Director, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Class Clown* (2012), Director
- *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days* (2012), Director
- *Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules* (2011), Director
- *Astro Boy vs The Junkyard Pirates* (2010), Director
- *Astro Boy* (2009), as Mike the Fridge (voice) · Director, Story, Screenplay
- *Flushed Away* (2006), as Goldfish / Fly / Shocky / Henchfrog #1 / Tadpole (voice) · Director, Additional Writing — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/flushed-away.md)
- *Grass Roots* (2000), series, as Motor Bike Club
- *Balto* (1995), Storyboard Artist, Supervising Animator
- *We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story* (1993), Animation
- *FernGully: The Last Rainforest* (1992), Animation — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/ferngully-the-last-rainforest.md)
- *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* (1991), Animation

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