Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946; Portland) 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.
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Animation Outlaws
as HimselfWalt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth,...
Movie pageMutant Aliens
as Guard (voice)An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit...
Movie page25 Ways to Quit Smoking
as Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various...
Movie pageKing-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
as HimselfFocuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
Movie pageHitler's Folly
as Nazi Soldier"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more...
Movie pageGuns on the Clackamas
as uncreditedNigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people...
Movie pageClaydream
as HimselfA modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential....
Movie pageGodass
as SelfAn off-beat comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a punk girl's problems.
Movie pageLucas, the Ear of Corn
as LucasThe story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the...
Movie pageThe Ornaments
as Ornament #1Well, it's that wonderful time of the year again... Merry Christmas, everyone!
Movie pageForging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
as HimselfA documentary about the early days of animation.
Movie pageMondo Plympton
as uncreditedA compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss",...
Movie pageTwisted Toons
as HimselfInterviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an...
Movie pagePlymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
as Young ManAnimator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...
TV Show pagePlymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
as (voice)Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...
TV Show pagePlymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
as Narrator (voice)Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...
TV Show pagePlymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
as Lucas (voice)Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...
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