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