Bill Plympton
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1946-04-30 (79 years old)
Place of Birth
Portland, Oregon, USA
Bill Plympton
Biography
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946; Portland) 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.
Acting
(2022)
Claydream
as Self
(2019)
Animation Outlaws
as Himself
(2016)
Hitler's Folly
as Nazi Soldier
(2013)
The Ornaments
as Ornament #1
(2011)
Adventures in Plymptoons!
as Himself
(2008)
(2002)
Mutant Aliens
as Guard (voice)
(2000)
Godass
as Self
(1997)
Twisted Toons
as Himself
(1997)
(1995)
(1989)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
as Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
(1977)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
as Lucas
Crew
(2025)
Duckville
Director
(2023)
Downwind
Title Illustration
(2023)
Slide
Director, Animation, Screenplay
(2022)
Lipstick of the Brave
Director
(2021)
Demi’s Panic
Director
(2020)
The One-Minute Memoir
Writer, Director
(2019)
Sex & Violence 3
Director, Writer
(2018)
No Snow For Christmas
Writer, Director
(2018)
The Modern Lives
Director
(2017)
Cop Dog
Director
(2016)
Hitler's Folly
Director, Writer, Producer
(2016)
Revengeance
Director, Writer, Producer
(2015)
The Loneliest Stoplight
Director, Writer
(2015)
The Gastronomic Shark
Director, Writer
(2015)
(2015)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Animation Director
(2014)
ABCs of Death 2
Director, Producer
(2014)
Cheatin'
Director, Writer
(2014)
Footprints
Director, Writer
(2014)
The Prophet
Co-Director
(2013)
The Ornaments
Director, Animation, Writer
(2013)
Drunker Than a Skunk
Director
(2012)
Waiting for Her Sailor
Director
(2012)
Summer Bummer
Director, Writer
(2012)
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Director, Writer
(2012)
(2011)
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Character Designer
(2011)
(2011)
Guard Dog Global Jam
Director, Writer, Producer
(2011)
(2010)
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Director, Writer
(2009)
Horn Dog
Director, Animation
(2008)
Idiots and Angels
Director, Writer, Producer
(2008)
Santa: The Fascist Years
Director, Writer
(2008)
Hot Dog
Director, Writer
(2008)
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Director
(2008)
The Luv Race
Screenstory, Director, Writer
(2007)
Shuteye Hotel
Director, Writer
(2007)
Gary Guitar
Director, Writer
(2006)
Fuck
Animation
(2006)
Guide Dog
Director, Writer
(2005)
The Fan and the Flower
Director
(2005)
Spiral
Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
(2004)
Guard Dog
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
(2004)
Hair High
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation
(2003)
For Reel?
Writer
(2003)
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Director, Writer, Animation
(2002)
Mutant Aliens
Director, Producer, Screenplay
(2002)
Parking
Director, Writer
(2002)
An Early Movie
Director
(2002)
House of Weirdness
Director
(2001)
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
Director
(2001)
Eat
Director, Writer
(2000)
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
Director, Writer
(2000)
New Advances in Medicine
Director
(2000)
(2000)
The Ultimate Blowjob
Director
(2000)
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
Director
(2000)
The Death of Jackson Pollock
Director
(2000)
(2000)
Pubic Hair Transplants
Director
(2000)
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
Director
(1999)
The Exciting Life of a Tree
Director
(1999)
Surprise Cinema
Director, Writer
(1999)
More Sex & Violence
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
(1999)
Life
Director
(1998)
I Married a Strange Person!
Creator, Director, Writer, Animation
(1998)
(1998)
Helter Shelter
Director, Writer
(1997)
Sex & Violence
Director, Writer, Producer
(1997)
Twisted Toons
Director
(1997)
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
Director
(1997)
Mondo Plympton
Director, Writer
(1997)
(1997)
Boney D
Writer, Director
(1997)
The Animal Lover
Director
(1996)
How to Make Love to a Woman
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
(1996)
Plympmania
Writer, Director, Producer, Animation
(1996)
Smell the Flowers
Writer, Director
(1995)
Guns on the Clackamas
Director, Writer, Producer
(1994)
J. Lyle
Producer, Director, Writer
(1994)
Nosehair
Director, Writer
(1994)
Faded Roads
Director, Writer, Producer
(1994)
The World's Greatest Animation
Director
(1993)
Draw
Writer, Director
(1992)
The Tune
Creator, Director, Story
(1992)
Flooby Nooby
Director
(1992)
Lovesick Hotel
Director
(1992)
Dancing All Day
Director, Writer
(1992)
Toon-O-Rama
Director, Writer
(1991)
Push Comes to Shove
Director, Writer, Animation
(1991)
The Wiseman
Director, Writer
(1991)
Isn't It Good Again
Director, Animation
(1991)
No Nose Blues
Director, Animation
(1990)
Plymptoons
Director, Writer, Animation
(1990)
Tango Schmango
Writer, Director, Producer
(1990)
Dig My Do
Director, Animation, Writer
(1989)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Director, Writer, Producer
(1989)
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer, Director
(1989)
Self-Portrait
Director
(1989)
Noodle Ear
Director
(1989)
Acid Rain
Director
(1988)
How to Kiss
Director, Writer
(1988)
One Of Those Days
Director, Writer, Animation
(1987)
Your Face
Director, Writer, Producer
(1987)
Love in the Fast Lane
Director, Writer, Producer
(1985)
Drawing Lesson #2
Director, Writer, Producer
(1985)
Boomtown
Director
(1977)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
Director, Writer
(1968)
The Great Turn On
Director