Samuel Jason Fell (born 22 November 1965)[3] is a British animator, director, screenwriter and voice actor.
Sam started his career as director on the short film The Big Cheese for 3 Peach Animation.
He then joined Aardman Animations and worked on projects like Pop, Peter Lord's Oscar-nominated short film Wat's Pig, as well as Rex the Runt, before directing the 2002 project Chump.
From 2008, he went on to direct The Tale of Despereaux for Universal Studios, and also provided the voices of the characters Ned and Smudge.
Fell co-directed Laika's ParaNorman, with Chris Butler, which was released in the United States in August 2012.