
Age: 61
male
Thomas "Tom" McGrath (born August 7, 1965) is an American voice actor and animator who co-directed (with Eric Darnell) the 2005 feature Madagascar and its sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa in 2008. He has also worked as a voice actor on other DreamWorks animated features like Flushed Away in 2006 and Shrek the Third in 2007. He also stepped in on Flushed Away to help make improvements prior to its release. McGrath's experience in both television and feature animation includes work as an animator on Ralph Bakshi's film Cool World (starring Brad Pitt), storyboard artist and director for the popular series The Ren and Stimpy Show, animator on the Joe Pytka-directed Space Jam (starring Michael Jordan), and storyboard artist on the live-action film Cats & Dogs and worked as storyboard artist and concept artist/prop and set designer for How the Grinch Stole Christmas (directed by Ron Howard). McGrath made his film directing debut as the co-director and co-writer of Madagascar where he also created the memorable squad of penguin characters and voiced their leader, Skipper. He also reprised his role as Skipper and co-directed and co-wrote the sequel, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. He worked on The Penguins of Madagascar, a Madagascar spin-off TV series, as the voice of Skipper, and directed the DreamWorks animated feature Megamind (starring Will Ferrell, Jonah Hill, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and David Cross), released in November 2010. McGrath was raised in Lynnwood, Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tom McGrath (animator), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Tom McGrath

Director
for Director in Beethoven (Animated Movie Reboot)
Suggested by ccarbe6062
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beethoven_(TV_series)

Idea: CG movie reboot based on the 1994 American Saturday morning cartoon television series. | PLOT: An ordinary young man (Dominic) was about to work in his lifelong dream of becoming a entertainer, until one fateful night, Dominic was transformed into a talking, furry, thick-coated Saint Bernard called Beethoven after accidentally drinking water from a cursed collar oak barrel. He is then adopted by the Newton family whose names are George, Alice, Ryce, Ted and Emily. They loved Beethoven (or Dominic), but he noticed that George gets in different mishaps time after time. Meanwhile, he spends time with three other dogs named Sparky, Ginger, and Caesar. Now Beethoven/Dominic must help the children of George and Alice and do whatever it takes to be human again, or he’ll remain a talking dog forever!