Tom McGrath

Thomas Tom McGrath born August 7 1965 is an American voice actor and animator who codirected 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 McGraths experience in both television and feature animation includes work as an animator on Ralph Bakshis film Cool World starring Brad Pitt storyboard artist and director for the popular series The Ren and Stimpy Show animator on the Joe Pytkadirected Space Jam starring Michael Jordan and storyboard artist on the liveaction film Cats Dogs and worked as storyboard artist and concept artistprop and set designer for How the Grinch Stole Christmas directed by Ron Howard McGrath made his film directing debut as the codirector and cowriter 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 codirected and cowrote the sequel Madagascar Escape 2 Africa He worked on The Penguins of Madagascar a Madagascar spinoff 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia