Bill Plympton

Born: 1946-04-30

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 Himself
Released: 2019-09-27

Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth,...

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Claydream

as Self
Released: 2022-08-05

A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential....

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Godass

as Self
Released: 2000-03-12

An off-beat comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a punk girl's problems.

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Mutant Aliens

as Guard (voice)
Released: 2002-06-14

An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit...

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25 Ways to Quit Smoking

as Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
Released: 1989-06-01

The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various...

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Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930

as uncredited
Released: 2008-11-03

A documentary about the early days of animation.

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Twisted Toons

as Himself
Released: 1997-03-28

Interviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an...

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Mondo Plympton

as uncredited
Released: 1997-03-28

A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss",...

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Guns on the Clackamas

as uncredited
Released: 1995-01-01

Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people...

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Hitler's Folly

as Nazi Soldier
Released: 2016-06-03

"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more...

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Lucas, the Ear of Corn

as Lucas
Released: 1977-01-01

The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the...

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The Ornaments

as Ornament #1
Released: 2013-12-17

Well, it's that wonderful time of the year again... Merry Christmas, everyone!

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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

as Lucas (voice)
First aired: 1989-06-01

Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...

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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

as (voice)
First aired: 1989-06-01

Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...

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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

as Narrator (voice)
First aired: 1989-06-01

Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...

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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton

as Young Man
First aired: 1989-06-01

Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face"...

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