Max Howard

{{Short description|Film producer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2014}}

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| name = Max Howard

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| caption = Howard in 2010

| birth_place = United Kingdom

| occupation = Film producer

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Max Howard is a film producer and studio executive, based in Los Angeles. He has run studios for Walt Disney Feature Animation in London, Paris, Orlando and Los Angeles, and was president of Warner Bros. Feature Animation.{{cite news|last1=Kenyon|first1=Heather|title=An Afternoon with Max Howard, President, Warner Bros. Feature Animation|url=http://www.awn.com/mag/issue3.1/3.1pages/3.1kenyonhoward.html|accessdate=March 28, 2017|work=Animation World Magazine|issue=1|date=April 1998|volume=3}}{{cite news|last1=Karon|first1=Paul|title=WB's Howard to join DreamWorks|url=https://variety.com/1998/film/news/wb-s-howard-to-join-dreamworks-1117471671/|accessdate=March 28, 2017|work=Variety|date=June 9, 1998}} His credits include Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, and Igor.{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}

Howard lives in Los Angeles, and runs two independent film companies, Melwood Pictures, and the Max Howard Consulting Group.[http://www.maxhoward.net/ Max Howard Consulting Group official website] Retrieved October 2011{{Primary source inline|date=January 2025}} Howard has been honoured with a Doctorate of Arts degree from Teesside University in the United Kingdom in recognition for his services to the animation industry. He is also the Chancellor of Middlesbrough Children's University.{{Cite web |date=2012-09-28 |title=Children's University inspires a new generation |url=http://middlesbrough.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4938 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121224004050/http://middlesbrough.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=4938 |archive-date=2012-12-24 |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Middlesbrough Council}}

In 2015 Howard started working In China on a regular basis for the DeTao Group, where he runs Melwood Pictures at DeTao, and is developing features based on Chinese content.{{Cite web |title="Max Howard Shares the "Art of Storytelling" with PKU Students" |url=https://english.pku.edu.cn/news_events/news/campus/6936.html |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=english.pku.edu.cn}}{{Cite web |date=2019-09-18 |title=Max Howard • Producer |url=https://cineuropa.org/en/interview/378456/ |access-date=2025-01-24 |website=Cineuropa - the best of european cinema |language=en}}{{citation needed|date=January 2025}}