---
name: "Gregg Vanzo"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/gregg-vanzo"
fi1m_id: "gregg-vanzo"
imdb_id: "nm0889405"
tmdb_id: 1219038
wikidata_id: "Q3067900"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "8 April 1961"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "director"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:29:22.951126+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."
---

# Gregg Vanzo

## Identity

Gregg Vanzo

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gregg-vanzo
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** gregg-vanzo
- **IMDb ID:** nm0889405
- **TMDB ID:** 1219038
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3067900
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Vanzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3067900, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219038

Director. Born 8 April 1961 in Webster.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 8 April 1961, Webster
- **Active:** 1989–1999
- **Frequently works with:** [Bill Odenkirk](https://film.one/person/bill-odenkirk.md), [Brian Kelley](https://film.one/person/brian-kelley.md), [Carlos Baeza](https://film.one/person/carlos-baeza.md), [Dan Vebber](https://film.one/person/dan-vebber.md), [David X. Cohen](https://film.one/person/david-x-cohen.md), [Eric Horsted](https://film.one/person/eric-horsted.md), [Eric Kaplan](https://film.one/person/eric-kaplan.md), [Jeffrey Lynch](https://film.one/person/jeffrey-lynch.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as director, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 1990s 81 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Vanzo, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3067900, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0889405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219038

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88), [*Futurama*](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md) (81)

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

## Biography

Gregg Vanzo is an American animator, director and producer. Born on 8 April 1961 in Webster, New York, he began his career as an animator on projects including Steven Spielberg's *Amazing Stories* and the short *Box Office Bunny* before joining *The Simpsons* in 1989, where he worked as a character layout artist, overseas animation director and main title animator across 80 episodes.

He co-directed the season one episode "There's No Disgrace Like Home" with Kent Butterworth. In 1991, with his wife Nikki, Vanzo founded Rough Draft Studios, which has produced animation for *The Simpsons*, *Futurama*, *Beavis and Butt-Head*, *The Maxx*, *The Critic* and other series. He served as supervising director on *Futurama* (also co-directing several episodes and acting as animation executive producer), *The Maxx* and *Beavis and Butt-Head*, and as sequence director on *The Simpsons Movie* (2007).

Vanzo received an Annecy Award for his work on *The Maxx* and two Primetime Emmy Awards for *Futurama*.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Futurama* (1999), Fi1m 81, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (12)

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

- *How Murray Saved Christmas* (2014), Executive Producer
- *The Simpsons Movie* (2007), Sequence Supervisor — Fi1m 70, [page](https://film.one/film/the-simpsons-movie.md)
- *Stitch! The Movie* (2003), Animation Supervisor
- *Futurama* (1999), series, Director, Other — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *Hate* (1995), Producer
- *The Maxx* (1995), series, Director
- *Beavis and Butt-Head* (1993), series, Director
- *Box-Office Bunny* (1991), Animation
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Garfield: His 9 Lives* (1988), Animation
- *Technological Threat* (1988), Character Designer
- *Amazing Stories* (1985), series, Animation

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