Will Vinton
Award-winning co-director of "Closed Mondays", the first Claymation (tm) film. Will Vinton was born on November 17, 1947 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA as William Gale Vinton. He was a producer and director, known for Claymation Easter (1992), Martin the Cobbler (1977) and Moonwalker (1988). He was married to Gillian Allred and Susan Shadburne. He was a Claymation artist who coined the term. His studio created numerous Claymation characters for ads, most notably the California Raisins, which gained fame in an ad set to the Motown hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". He died on October 4, 2018 in Portland, Oregon.
The Adventures of Mark Twain
as Dan'l Webster (voice)Based on elements from the stories of Mark Twain, this feature-length Claymation fantasy follows...
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Claydream
as Himself (archive footage)A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential....
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Animation Outlaws
as HimselfWalt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth,...
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Remembering Return to Oz
as SelfThe gathered memories and warm recollections of the cast and crew of the 1985 Walt Disney...
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Prisoners of Gravity
as SelfPrisoners of Gravity was a Canadian public broadcasting television news magazine program that...
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