Thor Freudenthal

Thor Freudenthal
Thor Freudenthal
	Freudenthal in 2013
Born	20 October 1972; Germany
Occupation	Film director, screenwriter, animator, special effect artist
Years active	1994–present
Notable work	Hotel for Dogs; Diary of a Wimpy Kid; Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Thor Freudenthal (born 20 October 1972) is a German film director, screenwriter, animator and special effects artist.

Life and career

Freudenthal was raised in Berlin, Germany.[1][2] He attended the Hochschule der Künste Berlin, and later moved to Southern California as an exchange student at CalArts.[1] He started out as an animation director on short films like Mind the Gap, Monkey Business and The Tenor. He also worked on conceptal/visual art work at Sony Pictures Imageworks on films like Stuart Little, The ChubbChubbs! and Stuart Little 2. He later worked as second unit director on Disney's The Haunted Mansion. In 2005, he directed the short film Motel which was his first live-action film. He then worked as director on Hotel for Dogs in 2009 for DreamWorks Pictures. He directed the live-action/animated feature film, Diary of a Wimpy Kid, based on the book by Jeff Kinney. He has also been featured in Diary of a Wimpy Kid Movie Diary.

Thor has also directed multiple episodes of Arrow and one episode of The Flash.

Year	Film	Notes
2009	Hotel for Dogs
2010	Diary of a Wimpy Kid	Also storyboard artist[3]
2014	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2020	Words on Bathroom Walls

Year	Title	Episode(s)
2014	Arrow	"The Climb" "Al Sah-Him" "Green Arrow" "Legends of Yesterday"
2015	The Flash	"Out of Time"
2015	Supergirl	"How Does She Do It?"
2016	Legends of Tomorrow	"The Magnificent Eight"
2017	The Expanse	"Caliban's War" "Assured Destruction" "Reload"
2018	The Tick	"Tale From the Crypt" "The End of the Beginning (Or the Start of the Dawn of the Age of Superhero)"
2019	Carnival Row	"Some Dark God Wakes" "Aisling" "The Joining of Unlike Things"

Year	Film	Director	Writer
1996	Monkey Business	Yes	Yes
1997	Tattoos	Yes	Yes
1998	The Tenor	Yes	Yes
1998	Mind the Gap	Yes	Yes
2005	Motel	Yes	Yes
2016	Starman	Yes	No

Year	Film	Notes
1999	Stuart Little	Creative and visual effects development
2002	The ChubbChubbs!	Character designer, storyboard artist
2002	Stuart Little 2	Conceptual artist
2003	The Haunted Mansion	Second unit director

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