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name: "Mike Gabriel"
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roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "5 November 1954"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T06:46:13.917256+00:00"
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# Mike Gabriel

Production designer. Born 5 November 1954 in Long Beach, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 5 November 1954, Long Beach, California, USA
- **Also known as:** Michael Richard Gabriel
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14565302, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0300265/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/65530

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Wreck-It Ralph*](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md) (70)

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## Biography

Mike Gabriel is an American animator, director and visual development artist. He began his career at Walt Disney Animation Studios as an assistant animator on *The Fox and the Hound* (1981), having studied at Golden West College in California.

Gabriel co-directed the feature films *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990) and *Pocahontas* (1995). He directed the animated short *Lorenzo* (2004) and worked as production designer and art director on *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012). He also contributed visual development and other roles to later Disney features.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Wreck-It Ralph* (2012), Fi1m 70, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/wreck-it-ralph.md)

## Also known for

- *Pocahontas* (1995), Director, Idea
- *Oliver & Company* (1988), Story
- *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990), Director
- *Lorenzo* (2004), Director, Story

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