Bill Plympton
Born: 1946-04-30 in Portland, Oregon, USA
Known For: Directing
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.
Filmography
2026
- u know i luv u ... (Director)
2023
- Downwind ... (Title Illustration)
2022
- Claydream as Self
- Lipstick of the Brave ... (Director)
2021
- Demi’s Panic ... (Director)
2020
- The One-Minute Memoir ... (Writer)
2019
- Animation Outlaws as Self
- Sex & Violence 3 ... (Director)
2018
- Trump Bites ... (Director)
- No Snow for Christmas ... (Writer)
- The Modern Lives ... (Director)
2017
- Cop Dog ... (Director)
- Good Advice ... (Director)
2016
- Revengeance ... (Director)
- Hitler's Folly as Nazi Soldier
2015
- The Loneliest Stoplight ... (Writer)
- The Brainwashing of My Dad ... (Animation Director)
- Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project ... (Writer)
- The Gastronomic Shark ... (Director)
2014
- ABCs of Death 2 ... (Director)
- Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet ... (Director)
- Cheatin' ... (Director)
- Footprints ... (Director)
2013
- The Ornaments as Ornament #1
- Drunker Than a Skunk ... (Director)
2012
- Summer Bummer ... (Director)
- Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project ... (Writer)
- Waiting for Her Sailor ... (Director)
- Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway ... (Director)
2011
- Adventures in Plymptoons! as Self
- The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project ... (Writer)
- The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation ... (Director)
- Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest ... (Character Designer)
- Guard Dog Global Jam ... (Producer)
2010
- The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger ... (Writer)
2009
- Mexican Standoff ... (Director)
- Horn Dog ... (Director)
2008
- Random! Cartoons ... (Director)
- Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 as Self
- Idiots and Angels ... (Director)
- Hot Dog ... (Director)
- Santa: The Fascist Years ... (Director)
- Tokyo OnlyPic 2008 ... (Director)
- The Luv Race ... (Screenstory)
2007
- Shuteye Hotel ... (Writer)
- Gary Guitar ... (Director)
2006
- Fuck ... (Animation)
- Don't Download This Song ... (Director)
- Guide Dog ... (Director)
2005
- She She She She's a Bombshell ... (Thanks)
- The Fan and the Flower ... (Director)
- Spiral ... (Producer)
2003
- Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal ... (Director)
- For Reel? ... (Writer)
- The Plympton Diaries as Himself
2002
- ChalkZone ... (Animation)
- Mutant Aliens as Guard (voice)
- Parking ... (Director)
- An Early Movie ... (Director)
- House of Weirdness ... (Director)
2001
- 12 Tiny Christmas Tales
- Eat ... (Writer)
2000
- Godass as Self
- How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference ... (Director)
- Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer ... (Director)
- Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting ... (Director)
- Pubic Hair Transplants ... (Director)
- Can't Drag Race with Jesus ... (Director)
- The Death of Jackson Pollock ... (Director)
- How to Grab a Woman's Breast ... (Director)
- New Advances in Medicine ... (Director)
- The Ultimate Blowjob ... (Director)
1999
- Surprise Cinema ... (Director)
- More Sex & Violence ... (Writer)
- Life ... (Director)
- The Exciting Life of a Tree ... (Director)
1998
- I Married a Strange Person! ... (Creator)
- Cartoon Sushi ... (Director)
- General Chaos: Uncensored Animation ... (Director)
- Helter Shelter ... (Director)
1997
- Sex & Violence ... (Director)
- Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet ... (Director)
- Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4 ... (Director)
- Twisted Toons as Self
- Boney D ... (Writer)
- Mondo Plympton
- The Animal Lover ... (Director)
1996
- Plympmania ... (Writer)
- How to Make Love to a Woman ... (Writer)
- Smell the Flowers ... (Writer)
1994
- The World's Greatest Animation ... (Director)
- Faded Roads ... (Director)
- J. Lyle ... (Producer)
- Nosehair ... (Director)
1993
- Draw ... (Writer)
1992
- The Tune ... (Creator)
- Dancing All Day ... (Director)
- Lovesick Hotel ... (Director)
- Flooby Nooby ... (Director)
- Toon-O-Rama ... (Writer)
1991
- Isn't It Good Again ... (Animation)
- The Wiseman ... (Director)
- Push Comes to Shove ... (Director)
- Animania ... (Director)
- No Nose Blues ... (Director)
1990
- Plymptoons ... (Director)
- Tango Schmango ... (Writer)
- Dig My Do ... (Animation)
1989
- The Simpsons ... (Animation)
- Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton as Lucas (voice)
- Animated Self-Portraits ... (Writer)
- Noodle Ear ... (Director)
- 25 Ways to Quit Smoking as Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
- Acid Rain ... (Director)
- Self-Portrait ... (Director)
1988
- One of Those Days ... (Director)
- How to Kiss ... (Director)
1987
- Your Face ... (Writer)
- Love in the Fast Lane ... (Producer)
1985
- Boomtown ... (Director)
- Drawing Lesson #2 ... (Director)
1984
- Al TV ... (Director)
1977
- Lucas, the Ear of Corn as Lucas
1968
- The Great Turn On ... (Director)