Profile of Bill Plympton
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Bill Plympton

Born
1946-04-30
Birthplace
Portland,
Oregon
USA
Born
1946-04-30
Birthplace
Portland, Oregon
USA
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 ......

Profile of Bill Plympton

Bill Plympton

Born
1946-04-30
Birthplace
Portland, Oregon
USA
Born
1946-04-30
Birthplace
Portland, Oregon
USA
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.

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The Simpsons poster

1989

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Random! Cartoons poster

2008

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ChalkZone poster

2002

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Hair High poster

2004

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Al TV poster

1984

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ABCs of Death 2 poster

2014

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Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet poster

2014

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Fuck poster

2006

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Idiots and Angels poster

2008

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I Married a Strange Person! poster

1998

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Your Face poster

1987

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Cheatin' poster

2014

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The Tune poster

1992

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25 Ways to Quit Smoking poster

1989

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Mutant Aliens poster

2002

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Guard Dog poster

2004

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The Brainwashing of My Dad poster

2015

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Sex & Violence poster

1997

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How to Kiss poster

1988

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How to Make Love to a Woman poster

1996

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Animated Self-Portraits poster

1989

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The Fan and the Flower poster

2005

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Revengeance poster

2016

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Push Comes to Shove poster

1991

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Guide Dog poster

2006

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Nosehair poster

1994

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Surprise Cinema poster

1999

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Eat poster

2001

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Footprints poster

2014

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Plymptoons poster

1990

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The Loneliest Stoplight poster

2015

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12 Tiny Christmas Tales poster

2001

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More Sex & Violence poster

1999

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Faded Roads poster

1994

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Horn Dog poster

2009

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Hitler's Folly poster

2016

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The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger poster

2010

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Hot Dog poster

2008

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The Exciting Life of a Tree poster

1999

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Drawing Lesson #2 poster

1985

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Santa: The Fascist Years poster

2008

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Claydream poster

2022

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Downwind poster

2023

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General Chaos: Uncensored Animation poster

1998

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One of Those Days poster

1988

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Parking poster

2002

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Shuteye Hotel poster

2007

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J. Lyle poster

1994

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Drunker Than a Skunk poster

2013

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Animation Outlaws poster

2019

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Mondo Plympton poster

1997

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Love in the Fast Lane poster

1987

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No Snow for Christmas poster

2018

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Boomtown poster

1985

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Lucas, the Ear of Corn poster

1977

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The Wiseman poster

1991

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Plympmania poster

1996

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Draw poster

1993

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Summer Bummer poster

2012

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Tokyo OnlyPic 2008 poster

2008

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Godass poster

2000

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Guns on the Clackamas poster

1995

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Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet poster

1997

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Waiting for Her Sailor poster

2012

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Cartoon Sushi poster

1998

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Mexican Standoff poster

2009

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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton poster

1989

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Spiral poster

2005

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Guard Dog Global Jam poster

2011

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The Gastronomic Shark poster

2015

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Smell the Flowers poster

1996

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Can't Drag Race with Jesus poster

2000

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Life poster

1999

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Boney D poster

1997

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Adventures in Plymptoons! poster

2011

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Dancing All Day poster

1992

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Dig My Do poster

1990

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Isn't It Good Again poster

1991

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The Modern Lives poster

2018

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The Ornaments poster

2013

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Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4 poster

1997

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Tango Schmango poster

1990

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The Luv Race poster

2008

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The Great Turn On poster

1968

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Sex & Violence 3 poster

2019

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Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway poster

2012

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For Reel? poster

2003

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Trump Bites poster

2018

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The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation poster

2011

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Animania poster

1991

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The World's Greatest Animation poster

1994

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Slide poster

2025

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Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 poster

2008

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Gary Guitar poster

2007

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The One-Minute Memoir poster

2020

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Whale 52 poster

2025

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The Ultimate Blowjob poster

2000

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How to Grab a Woman's Breast poster

2000

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The Death of Jackson Pollock poster

2000

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Toon-O-Rama poster

1992

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Acid Rain poster

1989

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Lipstick of the Brave poster

2022

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Twisted Toons poster

1997

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Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal poster

2003

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Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting poster

2000

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No Nose Blues poster

1991

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The Animal Lover poster

1997

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Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest poster

2011

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Flooby Nooby poster

1992

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Duckville poster

2025

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New Advances in Medicine poster

2000

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Cop Dog poster

2017

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Self-Portrait poster

1989

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Helter Shelter poster

1998

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An Early Movie poster

2002

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Pubic Hair Transplants poster

2000

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How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference poster

2000

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Lovesick Hotel poster

1992

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House of Weirdness poster

2002

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Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project poster

2012

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The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project poster

2011

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Demi’s Panic poster

2021

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Good Advice poster

2017

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Noodle Ear poster

1989

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Don't Download This Song poster

2006

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Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project poster

2015

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Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer poster

2000

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