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Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton

Born: 1946-04-30 • Portland, Oregon, USA

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
Claydream poster
Claydream
2022 • Self
Animation Outlaws poster
Animation Outlaws
2019 • Self
Hitler's Folly poster
Hitler's Folly
2016 • Nazi Soldier
The Ornaments poster
The Ornaments
2013 • Ornament #1
The Flying House poster
The Flying House
2011 • (voice)
No Image
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011 • Self
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 poster
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008 • Self
Mutant Aliens poster
Mutant Aliens
2002 • Guard (voice)
Godass poster
Godass
2000 • Self
No Image
Twisted Toons
1997 • Self
Mondo Plympton poster
Mondo Plympton
1997
Guns on the Clackamas poster
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
25 Ways to Quit Smoking poster
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989 • Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn poster
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
1977 • Lucas