Bill Plympton
Directing
Born: April 30, 1946 (age 80) · Portland, Oregon, USA
Highest Rated
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.
Photos (1)
Movies (8)
Mutant Aliens
Guard (voice)
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
2001
Hitler's Folly
Nazi Soldier
The Ornaments
Ornament #1
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
Lucas
Mondo Plympton
1997
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
TV Shows (4)
Self / Appearances (6)
Directing (98)
Random! Cartoons
Director
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
Director
ABCs of Death 2
Director
Trump Bites
Director
Hair High
Director
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Director
Al TV
Director
Cheatin'
Director
I Married a Strange Person!
Director
Mexican Standoff
Director
The Tune
Director
The Fan and the Flower
Director
Cartoon Sushi
Director
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
Director
Shuteye Hotel
Director
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
Director
Mutant Aliens
Director
Revengeance
Director
Idiots and Angels
Director
Boomtown
Director
Plymptoons
Director
Guard Dog
Director
Flooby Nooby
Director
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
Director
One of Those Days
Director
The One-Minute Memoir
Director
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Director
Santa: The Fascist Years
Director
Guns on the Clackamas
Director
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
Director
The Loneliest Stoplight
Director
The World's Greatest Animation
Director
Sex & Violence
Director
Slide
Director
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Director
Hot Dog
Director
No Snow for Christmas
Director
Hitler's Folly
Director
Your Face
Director
Isn't It Good Again
Director
Animated Self-Portraits
Director
The Modern Lives
Director
Tango Schmango
Director
Whale 52
Director
The Wiseman
Director
Faded Roads
Director
Dancing All Day
Director
How to Make Love to a Woman
Director
Horn Dog
Director
The Exciting Life of a Tree
Director
Surprise Cinema
Director
Plympmania
Director
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
Director
The Ornaments
Director
Spiral
Director
Footprints
Director
Push Comes to Shove
Director
Guide Dog
Director
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Director
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
Director
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
Director
The Great Turn On
Director
More Sex & Violence
Director
Nosehair
Director
Dig My Do
Director
Cop Dog
Director
Mondo Plympton
Director
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
Director
Sex & Violence 3
Director
Good Advice
Director
Gary Guitar
Director
Waiting for Her Sailor
Director
Smell the Flowers
Director
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
Director
Guard Dog Global Jam
Director
Lipstick of the Brave
Director
Eat
Director
Boney D
Director
J. Lyle
Director
Lovesick Hotel
Director
No Nose Blues
Director
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
Director
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Director
The Death of Jackson Pollock
Director
The Gastronomic Shark
Director
The Plympton Diaries
Director
Draw
Director
Duckville
Director
Helter Shelter
Director
Pubic Hair Transplants
Director
New Advances in Medicine
Director
Acid Rain
Director
Parking
Director
Demi’s Panic
Director
The Luv Race
Director
Summer Bummer
Director
How to Kiss
Director
The Ultimate Blowjob
Director
Writing (63)
Random! Cartoons
Writer
Hair High
Screenplay
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Writer
Cheatin'
Writer
I Married a Strange Person!
Writer
Mexican Standoff
Writer
The Tune
Story
Shuteye Hotel
Writer
Mutant Aliens
Screenplay
Revengeance
Writer
Idiots and Angels
Writer
Plymptoons
Writer
Guard Dog
Writer
The One-Minute Memoir
Writer
One of Those Days
Writer
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Writer
Santa: The Fascist Years
Writer
Guns on the Clackamas
Writer
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
Writer
The Loneliest Stoplight
Writer
Sex & Violence
Writer
Slide
Screenplay
Hot Dog
Writer
No Snow for Christmas
Writer
Hitler's Folly
Writer
Your Face
Writer
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer
Tango Schmango
Writer
The Wiseman
Writer
Faded Roads
Writer
Dancing All Day
Writer
How to Make Love to a Woman
Writer
Surprise Cinema
Writer
Plympmania
Writer
The Ornaments
Writer
Spiral
Writer
Footprints
Writer
Push Comes to Shove
Writer
Guide Dog
Writer
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Writer
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
Writer
More Sex & Violence
Writer
Nosehair
Writer
Dig My Do
Writer
Mondo Plympton
Writer
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
Writer
Sex & Violence 3
Writer
Good Advice
Screenplay
Gary Guitar
Writer
Smell the Flowers
Writer
Guard Dog Global Jam
Writer
Eat
Writer
Boney D
Writer
J. Lyle
Writer
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Writer
The Gastronomic Shark
Writer
Draw
Writer
Helter Shelter
Writer
Parking
Writer
The Luv Race
Screenstory
The Luv Race
Writer
Summer Bummer
Writer
How to Kiss
Writer
Producing (21)
ABCs of Death 2
Producer
Hair High
Producer
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Producer
Mutant Aliens
Producer
Revengeance
Producer
Idiots and Angels
Producer
Guard Dog
Producer
Guns on the Clackamas
Producer
Sex & Violence
Producer
Hitler's Folly
Producer
Your Face
Producer
Tango Schmango
Producer
Faded Roads
Producer
How to Make Love to a Woman
Producer
Plympmania
Producer
Spiral
Producer
More Sex & Violence
Producer
Guard Dog Global Jam
Producer
J. Lyle
Producer
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Producer
The Plympton Diaries
Producer
Other Crew (32)
The Simpsons
Animation
Random! Cartoons
Creator
ChalkZone
Animation
Hair High
Animation
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Art Direction
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Art Designer
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Animation
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Animation Director
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Creator
I Married a Strange Person!
Creator
I Married a Strange Person!
Animation
Mexican Standoff
Animation
The Tune
Creator
Fuck
Animation
Plymptoons
Animation
Guard Dog
Animation
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Animation Director
One of Those Days
Animation
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Animation
Downwind
Title Illustration
Slide
Animation
Isn't It Good Again
Animation
Whale 52
Cinematography
How to Make Love to a Woman
Animation
Horn Dog
Animation
Plympmania
Animation
The Ornaments
Animation
Spiral
Animation
Push Comes to Shove
Animation
More Sex & Violence
Animation
Dig My Do
Animation
No Nose Blues
Animation