---
name: "Michael Humphries"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/michael-humphries"
fi1m_id: "michael-humphries"
tmdb_id: 1459630
roles: ["Background designer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 68
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-05T04:54:08.452456+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."
---

# Michael Humphries

## Identity

Michael Humphries

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/michael-humphries
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** michael-humphries
- **TMDB ID:** 1459630
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1459630

Background designer.

## Details

- **Work:** Background designer
- **Active:** 1994–2009
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 84 (1), 2000s 60 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 68 to 64 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 1 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Genres:** Animation 3, Family 3, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Drama 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 5 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $1,235m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1459630

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Open Season*](https://film.one/film/open-season.md) (49)

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

## Biography

Michael Humphries is an animation production designer, art director and background artist. He served as production designer on the Sony Pictures Animation feature *Open Season* (2006).

His earlier credits include background design on *The Lion King* (1994) and *The Princess and the Frog* (2009), and art direction on the short film *The Little Matchgirl* (2006). He also worked as production designer on the short *Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run* (2006).

Humphries received an Annie Award nomination for production design on *Open Season*.

*Sources: michaelhumphries.net, imdb.com, awn.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Princess and the Frog* (2009), Fi1m 72, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-princess-and-the-frog.md)
- *Open Season* (2006), Fi1m 49, Production design, Production Design — [page](https://film.one/film/open-season.md)
- *The Lion King* (1994), Fi1m 84, Background Designer — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Queen Pin II: The Restoration* (2016), as Detective Byrd
- *The Princess and the Frog* (2009), Background Designer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/film/the-princess-and-the-frog.md)
- *Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run* (2006), Production Design
- *Open Season* (2006), Production Design — Fi1m 49, [page](https://film.one/film/open-season.md)
- *The Little Matchgirl* (2006), as Art Direction
- *The Lion King* (1994), Background Designer — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lion-king.md)
- *The Pillow People Save Christmas* (1988), Graphic Designer

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