---
name: "Francis Glebas"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francis-glebas"
fi1m_id: "francis-glebas"
imdb_id: "nm0322368"
tmdb_id: 74298
wikidata_id: "Q5481077"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
born: "12 April 1952"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 6
average_fi1m_score: 72
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T04:32:41.888432+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."
---

# Francis Glebas

## Identity

Francis Glebas

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francis-glebas
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francis-glebas
- **IMDb ID:** nm0322368
- **TMDB ID:** 74298
- **Wikidata ID:** Q5481077
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Glebas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481077, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322368/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74298

Writer and director. Born 12 April 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Born:** 12 April 1952, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- **Active:** 1992–2014
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 6: 1 directing, 4 writing, 1 crew
- **Average Fi1m score:** 72, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 72 (4), 2000s 65 (1), 2010s 50 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 72 to 65 across 4 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 4, Family 4, Adventure 2, Drama 2, Romance 2, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,939m across 4 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Glebas, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5481077, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0322368/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74298

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Fantasia 2000*](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md) (65)

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

## Biography

Francis Glebas is an American storyboard artist, film director, writer and teacher. He was born on 12 April 1952 in St. Louis, Missouri, and studied at the Pratt Institute in New York and the New York Institute of Technology.

He joined Walt Disney Feature Animation in 1990 and contributed story and visual development work to *Aladdin* (1992), *The Lion King* (1994), *Pocahontas* (1995), *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996) and other features. Glebas directed the Donald Duck segment of *Fantasia 2000* (2000) and the feature *Piglet's Big Movie* (2003). He has taught storyboarding at the University of California, Los Angeles, and other institutions.

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

## On Fi1m (6)

### Directed (1)

- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Fi1m 65, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md)

### Wrote (4) — the average rests on these

- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), Fi1m 70, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md)
- *Pocahontas* (1995), Fi1m 54, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/pocahontas.md)
- *The Lion King* (1994), Fi1m 84, Story — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)
- *Aladdin* (1992), Fi1m 82, Story, Visual Development — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)

### Crew (1)

- *Rio 2* (2014), Fi1m 50, Additional Storyboarding — [page](https://film.one/film/rio-2.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

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

- *Cinderella and the Secret Prince* (2018), Writer
- *Rio 2* (2014), Additional Storyboarding — Fi1m 50, [page](https://film.one/film/rio-2.md)
- *My Little Pony: Greetings from Unicornia* (2006), Storyboard Artist
- *Piglet's Big Movie* (2003), Director
- *Quantum Project* (2000), Writer
- *Fantasia 2000* (2000), Director — Fi1m 65, [page](https://film.one/film/fantasia-2000.md)
- *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), Story Artist — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-hunchback-of-notre-dame.md)
- *Pocahontas* (1995), Story — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/pocahontas.md)
- *The Lion King* (1994), Story — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)
- *Aladdin* (1992), Story, Visual Development — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)
- *Living Above the Mouse's Ear* (1985), Animation

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