Bill Plympton
- Directing
- April 30, 1946 · Portland, Oregon, USA
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
- u know i luv u · Director, Producer
- Slide · Director, Animation
- Whale 52 · Director, Cinematography
- Duckville · Director
- Downwind · Title Illustration
- Claydream · Self
- Lipstick of the Brave · Director
- Demi’s Panic · Director
- The One-Minute Memoir · Writer, Director
- Animation Outlaws · Self
- Sex & Violence 3 · Director, Writer
- No Snow for Christmas · Writer, Director
- Trump Bites · Director
- The Modern Lives · Director
- Good Advice · Director, Screenplay
- Cop Dog · Director
- Revengeance · Director, Writer
- Hitler's Folly · Nazi Soldier, Director
- The Loneliest Stoplight · Writer, Director
- The Brainwashing of My Dad · Animation Director
- Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project · Writer
- The Gastronomic Shark · Director, Writer
- ABCs of Death 2 · Director, Producer
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet · Director
- Cheatin' · Director, Writer
- Footprints · Director, Writer
- The Ornaments · Ornament #1, Writer
- Drunker Than a Skunk · Director
- Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway · Director, Writer
- Waiting for Her Sailor · Director
- Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project · Writer
- Summer Bummer · Director, Writer
- Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest · Character Designer
- The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project · Writer
- Adventures in Plymptoons! · Self
- Guard Dog Global Jam · Producer, Writer
- The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation · Director
- The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger · Writer, Director
- Mexican Standoff · Director, Writer
- Horn Dog · Director, Animation
- Random! Cartoons · Director, Writer
- Santa: The Fascist Years · Director, Writer
- Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 · Self
- Tokyo OnlyPic 2008 · Director
- Idiots and Angels · Director, Writer
- Hot Dog · Director, Writer
- The Luv Race · Screenstory, Writer
- Gary Guitar · Director, Writer
- Shuteye Hotel · Writer, Director
- Fuck · Animation
- Don't Download This Song · Director, Animation
- Guide Dog · Director, Writer
- She She She She's a Bombshell · Thanks
- The Fan and the Flower · Director
- Spiral · Producer, Animation
- Guard Dog · Writer, Director
- Hair High · Director, Screenplay
- The Plympton Diaries · Self, Producer
- Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal · Director, Animation
- For Reel? · Writer
- Mutant Aliens · Guard (Voice), Director
- ChalkZone · Animation
- Parking · Director, Writer
- House of Weirdness · Director
- An Early Movie · Director
- 12 Tiny Christmas Tales · Director, Writer
- Eat · Writer, Director
- Godass · Self
- Can't Drag Race with Jesus · Director, Writer
- How to Grab a Woman's Breast · Director
- New Advances in Medicine · Director
- The Death of Jackson Pollock · Director
- Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting · Director
- The Ultimate Blowjob · Director
- How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference · Director
- Pubic Hair Transplants · Director
- Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer · Director
- Surprise Cinema · Director, Writer
- Life · Director
- More Sex & Violence · Writer, Director