---
name: "Eric Darnell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/eric-darnell"
fi1m_id: "eric-darnell"
imdb_id: "nm0201509"
tmdb_id: 18863
wikidata_id: "Q2630467"
roles: ["Director","Writer"]
born: "21 August 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 61
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T06:31:36.755053+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."
---

# Eric Darnell

## Identity

Eric Darnell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/eric-darnell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** eric-darnell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0201509
- **TMDB ID:** 18863
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2630467
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Darnell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2630467, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18863

Director and writer. Born 21 August 1961 in Prairie Village, Kansas, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Director, Writer
- **Born:** 21 August 1961, Prairie Village, Kansas, USA
- **Active:** 2005–2014
- **Also known as:** 에릭 다넬
- **Frequently works with:** [Tom McGrath](https://film.one/person/tom-mcgrath.md), [Ben Stiller](https://film.one/person/ben-stiller.md), [Chris Rock](https://film.one/person/chris-rock.md), [David Schwimmer](https://film.one/person/david-schwimmer.md), [Jada Pinkett Smith](https://film.one/person/jada-pinkett-smith.md), [Mark Swift](https://film.one/person/mark-swift-2008016.md), [Mireille Soria](https://film.one/person/mireille-soria.md), [Sacha Baron Cohen](https://film.one/person/sacha-baron-cohen.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 61, as director, over 2 titles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Darnell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2630467, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0201509/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/18863

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa*](https://film.one/film/madagascar-escape-2-africa.md) (62), [*Madagascar*](https://film.one/film/madagascar.md) (60)

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

## Biography

Eric Darnell is an American animator, director, writer and occasional voice actor. Born in Prairie Village, Kansas, he studied broadcast journalism at the University of Colorado and experimental animation at the California Institute of the Arts.

He began his career at Pacific Data Images before co-directing *Antz* (1998) with Tim Johnson. Darnell co-directed and co-wrote the *Madagascar* films (2005, 2008, 2012) with Tom McGrath and co-directed the spin-off *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014) with Simon J. Smith. He provided voices including Zoo Announcer, Lemur #1, Fossa and Subway Car Announcer on the first *Madagascar* film. He later co-founded Baobab Studios.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa* (2008), Fi1m 62, as Joe the Witch Doctor / Poacher #2 (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/madagascar-escape-2-africa.md)
- *Madagascar* (2005), Fi1m 60, as Zoo Announcer / Lemur #1 / Fossa / Subway Car Announcer (voice) — [page](https://film.one/film/madagascar.md)

## Complete filmography (21)

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

- *Namoo* (2021), Producer
- *Baba Yaga* (2021), Director, Screenplay, Cinematography
- *Bonfire* (2019), Director, Writer
- *Crow: The Legend* (2018), Director, Writer
- *Jack (Part 1)* (2018), Producer
- *All Hail King Julien: Exiled* (2017), series, Characters
- *Asteroids!* (2017), Director
- *Invasion!* (2016), Director
- *All Hail King Julien* (2014), series, Characters, Creator
- *Penguins of Madagascar* (2014), Director, Executive Producer
- *The Penguins of Madagascar: Operation Special Delivery* (2014), Writer
- *Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted* (2012), as Comandante / Zoo Official / Zoo Announcer (voice) · Director, Screenplay
- *The Penguins of Madagascar: Happy King Julien Day* (2010), Director, Scenario Writer
- *Merry Madagascar* (2009), Writer
- *The Penguins of Madagascar* (2009), Creator
- *The Penguins of Madagascar* (2008), series, Creator
- *Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa* (2008), as Joe the Witch Doctor / Poacher #2 (voice) · Director, Writer — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/madagascar-escape-2-africa.md)
- *Madagascar* (2005), as Zoo Announcer / Lemur #1 / Fossa / Subway Car Announcer (voice) · Director, Writer — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/madagascar.md)
- *Antz* (1998), Director
- *Big Smoke* (1993), Director, Writer
- *Gas Planet* (1992), Director, Animation

## Gallery

- ![Eric Darnell](https://film.one/media/person/5683650/gallery-1faf6cc79675.png) Eric Darnell — Jim Marissen, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Eric_Darnell.png?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Eric Darnell](https://film.one/media/person/5683650/gallery-d68e32693964.jpg) Eric Darnell — Image via TMDB
- ![Eric Darnell](https://film.one/media/person/5683650/gallery-dcc47119ecbe.jpg) Eric Darnell — Image via TMDB

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