Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 30, 1946
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Credits
130 titles
Bill Plympton
Biography
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946) is an American animator, director, graphic designer, cartoonist, screenwriter and producer best known for his 1987 Academy Award-nominated animated short Your Face and his series of shorts Guard Dog, Guide Dog, Hot Dog and Horn Dog. Plympton's illustrations and cartoons have been published in The New York Times and the weekly newspaper The Village Voice, as well as in the magazines Vogue, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Penthouse, and National Lampoon. His political cartoon strip Plympton, which began in 1975 in the SoHo Weekly News, eventually was syndicated and appeared in over 20 newspapers. In 1988, his animated short Your Face was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. He also became known for other animated short films, including 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) and Enemies (1991), the latter of which was part of the Animania series on MTV, where many of his other shorts were shown. In 1992, his self-financed, first feature-length animated film, The Tune debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. His work also appeared on the 1992–1993 Fox comedy series The Edge. In 1993, he made his first live action film, J. Lyle. In 1995, he contributed animation and graphics to a computer game collection, Take Your Best Shot. He also published a comic book in 2003, The Sleazy Cartoons of Bill Plympton. Plympton's 2008 80-minute feature, Idiots and Angels presented by Terry Gilliam, had no dialogue. Plympton directed the segment "On Eating and Drinking" in the 2014 animated film The Prophet, adapted from Kahlil Gibran's book The Prophet. In 2020, Plympton released a Kickstarter for his new animated comedy western, Slide. The funding was successful and Plympton had planned on finishing the film by 2022.
Known For
Filmography
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Director
Slide
Director
Whale 52
Director
Duckville
Director
Downwind
Title Illustration
Claydream
Self
Lipstick of the Brave
Director
Demi’s Panic
Director
The One-Minute Memoir
Writer
Animation Outlaws
Self
Sex & Violence 3
Director
No Snow for Christmas
Writer
Trump Bites
Director
The Modern Lives
Director
Good Advice
Director
Cop Dog
Director
Revengeance
Director
Hitler's Folly
Nazi Soldier
The Loneliest Stoplight
Director
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Animation Director
Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project
Writer
The Gastronomic Shark
Director
ABCs of Death 2
Director
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Director
Cheatin'
Director
Footprints
Director
The Ornaments
Ornament #1
Drunker Than a Skunk
Director
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Director
Waiting for Her Sailor
Director
Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project
Writer
Summer Bummer
Director
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Character Designer
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
Writer
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Self
Guard Dog Global Jam
Director
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
Director
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Director
Mexican Standoff
Director
Horn Dog
Director
Random! Cartoons
Writer
Santa: The Fascist Years
Director
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
Self
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Director
Idiots and Angels
Director
Hot Dog
Director
The Luv Race
Screenstory
Gary Guitar
Director
Shuteye Hotel
Director
Fuck
Animation