---
name: "Stephan Franck"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/stephan-franck"
fi1m_id: "stephan-franck"
imdb_id: "nm0290454"
tmdb_id: 1205985
wikidata_id: "Q61467339"
roles: ["Writer","Director"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-27T09:13:48.889146+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."
---

# Stephan Franck

## Identity

Stephan Franck

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/stephan-franck
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** stephan-franck
- **IMDb ID:** nm0290454
- **TMDB ID:** 1205985
- **Wikidata ID:** Q61467339
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Franck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61467339, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290454/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1205985

Writer and director.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Director
- **Active:** 2010–present
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 3: 1 directing, 2 writing
- **Average Fi1m score:** 84, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2010s 84 (2), 2020s 63 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan_Franck, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q61467339, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0290454/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1205985

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*What If...?*](https://film.one/tv/what-if.md) (63)

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

## Biography

Stephan Franck is a Franco-American animator, writer, director and comics creator. He supervised the animation of the first season of the Disney+ series *What If...?* (2021) and directed several episodes across its second and third seasons, including "What If... Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?" and "What If... the Watcher Disappeared?".

He directed the television film *The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow* (2013), for which he received an Annie Award nomination. Franck is co-creator of the animated series *Corneil & Bernie* (2003–2006) and has worked as a story artist on films including *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010) and *Despicable Me* (2010).

In comics, he writes and illustrates the graphic novel series *Silver*, which earned a Russ Manning Award nomination in 2014, and the neo-noir series *Palomino*, nominated for a Ringo Award in 2024.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

### Directed (1)

- *What If...?* (2021), Fi1m 63, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/what-if.md)

### Wrote (2) — the average rests on these

- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Fi1m 87, Story Artist — [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), Fi1m 82, Storyboard — [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2010.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *What If...?* (2021), series, Director, Animation Supervisor — Fi1m 63, [page](https://film.one/tv/what-if.md)
- *Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse* (2018), Story Artist — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse.md)
- *The Star* (2017), Story Artist
- *Open Season: Scared Silly* (2015), Story
- *The Smurfs: The Legend of Smurfy Hollow* (2013), Director
- *Despicable Me* (2010), Story Artist
- *How to Train Your Dragon* (2010), Storyboard — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/how-to-train-your-dragon-2010.md)
- *9* (2009), Storyboard
- *Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space* (2009), Storyboard
- *Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Furious Five* (2008), Storyboard
- *Watch My Chops* (2003), series, Creator
- *Eight Crazy Nights* (2002), Animation Supervisor
- *Barbie as Rapunzel* (2002), Storyboard
- *Osmosis Jones* (2001), Lead Animator, Storyboard
- *The Iron Giant* (1999), Supervising Animator — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/film/the-iron-giant.md)
- *Quest for Camelot* (1998), Lead Animator, Storyboard Artist
- *Space Jam* (1996), Animation
- *Balto* (1995), Animation
- *We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story* (1993), Animation
- *An American Tail: Fievel Goes West* (1991), Animation

## Gallery

- ![Stephan Franck](https://film.one/media/person/293028/gallery-9ba6ec3e1a5a.jpg) Stephan Franck — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/Stephan_Franck_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Stephan_Franck_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stephan Franck speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Iron Giant", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore ](https://film.one/media/person/293028/gallery-10dc6ab83359.jpg) Stephan Franck speaking at the 2018 WonderCon, for "The Iron Giant", at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore  — Gage Skidmore from Peoria, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Stephan_Franck_%2827209968418%29.jpg/1280px-Stephan_Franck_%2827209968418%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Stephan Franck during the ComiXology panel at San Diego Comic Con 2015](https://film.one/media/person/293028/gallery-a59fe3f6913f.jpg) Stephan Franck during the ComiXology panel at San Diego Comic Con 2015 — Melvin Hogan, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/be/Stephan_Franck_SDCC15.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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