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name: "Will Finn"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/will-finn"
roles: ["Screenwriter"]
born: "1 November 1958"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 78
updated: "2026-09-17T06:18:28.171518+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."
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# Will Finn

Screenwriter. Born 1 November 1958 in New York, New York, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Screenwriter
- **Born:** 1 November 1958, New York, New York, USA
- **Active:** 1982–2016
- **Also known as:** William Finn, Bill Snelgrove
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 74 (1), 1990s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16207957, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0278181/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/70287

## Streaming the US now

- **Tubi:** [*The Secret of NIMH*](https://film.one/film/the-secret-of-nimh.md) (74)

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## Biography

Will Finn is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist and director. Born in New York City in 1958, he trained at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh and began working in animation in the 1970s.

He contributed to Don Bluth’s *The Secret of NIMH* (1982) as a writer on the story adaptation and as an animator. At Disney he supervised animation for characters including Cogsworth in *Beauty and the Beast* (1991), Iago in *Aladdin* (1992) and Laverne in *The Hunchback of Notre Dame* (1996), and worked on films such as *Pocahontas* (1995) and *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990). Finn co-wrote and directed the feature *Home on the Range* (2004) and has contributed story work to later projects including *Over the Hedge* (2006) and *Free Birds* (2013). He is a cousin of voice actor Bob Bergen.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Aladdin* (1992), Fi1m 82, Supervising Animator — [page](https://film.one/film/aladdin.md)
- *The Secret of NIMH* (1982), Fi1m 74, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-secret-of-nimh.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016), Additional Storyboarding

## Also known for

- *Over the Hedge* (2006), Story Artist
- *Home on the Range* (2004), Director, Writer, Story
- *A Goofy Movie* (1995), Character Designer
- *Astro Boy* (2009), Story Artist
- *The Rescuers Down Under* (1990), Storyboard, Animation
- *Free Birds* (2013), Story Artist
- *Tom and Jerry Cowboy Up!* (2022), Story
- *Once Upon a Studio* (2023), Animation

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