Barry Kooser

Barry R. Kooser is an American artist, painter, and educator who worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation Studios between 1992 and 2003 as a background artist on films such as The Lion King, Pocahontas, Mulan, Lilo & Stitch, and as background supervisor on Brother Bear. After leaving Disney, he worked independently as a painter exhibiting and selling fine art in galleries around the US. While teaching animation and story-boarding at Rocky Mountain College of Art + Design, he met Worker Studio founder Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot, and became a partner at the Colorado animation studio. Barry has since left Worker Studio. He is the Founder, Executive Producer and Director at Many Hoops Productions.

23 December 1968

Born on the same birth date (23 December 1968): Karyn Bryant • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz • René Tretschok

Born on the same birth day (23 December): Anna Maria Perez de Tagle • Bobby Ross • Carol Ann Duffy • Carol Smillie • Christian Potenza • Dudu Aharon • Gharib Niwaz (Manipur) • Jess Harnell • Mario Santana • Pierre Brissaud • Quentin Bryce • Reinhold Weege • Robert Labine • Ronnie Schell

Born in the same month (December 1968): Akihiko Hoshide • Claudio Suárez • Doriano Romboni • Doyle Bramhall II • Emmanuelle Charpentier • Fabrizio Ravanelli • Falilat Ogunkoya • Jiří Dopita • Justin Chadwick • Karl Ove Knausgård • Karl Wendlinger • Kelley Armstrong • Lori McKenna • Lucy Liu • Luis Hernández (footballer, born 1968) • Manuel Rivera-Ortiz • Margaret Cho • Mario Basler • Michael Cole (wrestling) • Rachel Griffiths • Sarah Fitz-Gerald