Bill Plympton

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, …

Directed

1. ABCs of Death 2 (2014) — Director
2. Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (2014) — Director
3. Idiots and Angels (2008) — Director
4. I Married a Strange Person! (1998) — Director
5. Your Face (1987) — Director
6. Hair High (2004) — Director
7. Cheatin' (2014) — Director
8. The Tune (1992) — Director
9. 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) — Director
10. Mutant Aliens (2002) — Director
11. Guard Dog (2004) — Director
12. Sex & Violence (1997) — Director
13. How to Kiss (1988) — Director
14. How to Make Love to a Woman (1996) — Director
15. The Fan and the Flower (2005) — Director
16. Animated Self-Portraits (1989) — Director
17. Push Comes to Shove (1991) — Director
18. Guide Dog (2006) — Director
19. Revengeance (2016) — Director
20. Nosehair (1994) — Director
21. Eat (2001) — Director
22. Surprise Cinema (1999) — Director
23. Footprints (2014) — Director
24. Plymptoons (1990) — Director
25. Random! Cartoons (2008) — Director
26. 12 Tiny Christmas Tales (2001) — Director
27. Faded Roads (1994) — Director
28. The Loneliest Stoplight (2015) — Director
29. More Sex & Violence (1999) — Director
30. The Exciting Life of a Tree (1999) — Director
31. Drawing Lesson #2 (1985) — Director
32. The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger (2010) — Director
33. Horn Dog (2009) — Director
34. Hot Dog (2008) — Director
35. Hitler's Folly (2016) — Director
36. Santa: The Fascist Years (2008) — Director
37. One of Those Days (1988) — Director
38. Parking (2002) — Director
39. General Chaos: Uncensored Animation (1998) — Director
40. Shuteye Hotel (2007) — Director

Also appeared in

1. 25 Ways to Quit Smoking (1989) — Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
2. Mutant Aliens (2002) — Guard (voice)
3. Hitler's Folly (2016) — Nazi Soldier
4. Claydream (2022) — Self
5. Lucas, the Ear of Corn (1977) — Lucas
6. Animation Outlaws (2019) — Self
7. Mondo Plympton (1997)
8. Godass (2000) — Self
9. Guns on the Clackamas (1995)
10. The Ornaments (2013) — Ornament #1
11. Adventures in Plymptoons! (2011) — Self
12. Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 (2008) — Self
13. Twisted Toons (1997) — Self
14. Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton (1989) — Lucas (voice)