LOS ANGELES, California — Roger Allers, the American animator, director and storyteller best known for co-directing Disney’s ...

Roger Allers, who co-directed Disney classics including 'The Lion King' (1994) and 'Open Season' (2006), has died. He was 76.

Allers, who received an Oscar nomination, worked on other Disney films, including 'Aladdin,' 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'The ...

“Roger Allers was a creative visionary whose many contributions to Disney will live on for generations to come,” said Disney ...

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Roger Allers, co-director of Disney's 'The Lion King' has died at 76. Allers, who also co-wrote the Broadway adaptation of ...

Allers was best known for co-directing Disney’s modern classic, The Lion King (1994), a film that became the highest-grossing ...

For a generation of viewers, The Lion King and other big studio cartoons are comfort watches, not political texts. A new ...

THE LION KING co-director and longtime Disney writer Roger Allers has died at age 76. “Roger Allers was a creative visionary ...

Oscar- and Tony-nominated director Roger Allers, best known for his work on The Lion King, has died. He was 76. Allers died ...

Roger Allers, a film-maker and animation wizard who co-directed "The Lion King" and other huge Disney hits, has died at the ...

Filmmaker Roger Allers passed away at 76 on January 17, 2026. Rob Minkoff, who co-directed The Lion King with Rogers, reacted ...