Peter Docter
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Peter Docter is a film director, best known for Monsters, Inc., a Pixar film. He graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Bloomington, Minnesota. He is also a former member of the Mentor Connection.
Peter Docter has been an integral part of some of the most seminal works of Pixar Studios, notably Toy Story, Toy Story 2, A Bugs Life and Monsters, Inc.. He contributed to these animated films as a co-author to the scripts, and worked alongside CGI stalwarts like John Lasseter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft. All of these films received mass acclaim and top honours, which turned Docter into a popular cultural icon.
In 2004, he was asked to direct the English translation of Howl's Moving Castle by John Lasseter, who declined the project for he was busy making the movie, Cars.