Directing
Bill Plympton
EN, PT, XX, JA cinema · 122 credits
Born
30 April 1946 (age 80)
Birthplace
Portland, Oregon, USA
Also known as Билл Плимптон
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.
Known for
Filmography
u know i luv u
2026
u know i luv u
Director, Producer
Slide
Director, Animation, Screenplay
Duckville
Director
Whale 52
Director, Cinematography
Downwind
Title Illustration
Claydream
as Self
Demi’s Panic
Director
The One-Minute Memoir
Writer, Director
Sex & Violence 3
Director, Writer
No Snow for Christmas
Writer, Director
The Modern Lives
Director
Cop Dog
Director
Good Advice
Director, Screenplay
Hitler's Folly
as Nazi Soldier, Director, Writer, Producer
Revengeance
Director, Writer, Producer
The Loneliest Stoplight
Director, Writer
The Gastronomic Shark
Director, Writer
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Animation Director
ABCs of Death 2
Director, Producer
Cheatin'
Director, Writer
Footprints
Director, Writer
The Ornaments
as Ornament #1, Director, Animation, Writer
Summer Bummer
Director, Writer
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
2012
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Director, Writer
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
2011
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Character Designer
Guard Dog Global Jam
Director, Writer, Producer
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
2011
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
Writer
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Director, Writer
Horn Dog
Director, Animation
Mexican Standoff
Director, Writer, Animation
Idiots and Angels
Director, Writer, Producer
Santa: The Fascist Years
Director, Writer
Hot Dog
Director, Writer
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Director
The Luv Race
Screenstory, Director, Writer
Shuteye Hotel
Director, Writer
Gary Guitar
Director, Writer
Fuck
Animation
Guide Dog
Director, Writer
Don't Download This Song
2006
Don't Download This Song
Director, Animation
Spiral
Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
Guard Dog
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
Hair High
Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation
The Plympton Diaries
as Himself, Producer, Director
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Director, Writer, Animation
Mutant Aliens
as Guard (voice), Director, Producer, Screenplay
Parking
Director, Writer
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
Actor, Director, Writer
Eat
Director, Writer
Godass
as Self
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
Director, Writer
Surprise Cinema
Director, Writer
More Sex & Violence
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
Life
1999
Life
Director
I Married a Strange Person!
Creator, Director, Writer, Animation
Helter Shelter
Director, Writer
Twisted Toons
1997
Twisted Toons
as Self, Director
Mondo Plympton
Actor, Director, Writer
Sex & Violence
Director, Writer, Producer
Boney D
Writer, Director
How to Make Love to a Woman
Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
Plympmania
Writer, Director, Producer, Animation
Smell the Flowers
Writer, Director
Guns on the Clackamas
Actor, Director, Writer, Producer
J. Lyle
Producer, Director, Writer
Nosehair
Director, Writer
Faded Roads
Director, Writer, Producer
Draw
Writer, Director
The Tune
Creator, Director, Story
Flooby Nooby
Director
Lovesick Hotel
Director
Dancing All Day
Director, Writer
Toon-O-Rama
1992
Toon-O-Rama
Director, Writer
Push Comes to Shove
Director, Writer, Animation
The Wiseman
Director, Writer
Isn't It Good Again
Director, Animation
No Nose Blues
Director, Animation
Plymptoons
Director, Writer, Animation
Tango Schmango
Writer, Director, Producer
Dig My Do
Director, Animation, Writer
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
as Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité), Director, Writer, Producer
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer, Director
Acid Rain
Director
How to Kiss
Director, Writer
One of Those Days
Director, Writer, Animation
Your Face
Director, Writer, Producer
Love in the Fast Lane
1987
Love in the Fast Lane
Director, Writer, Producer
Drawing Lesson #2
1985
Drawing Lesson #2
Director, Writer, Producer
Boomtown
Director
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
as Lucas, Director, Writer
The Great Turn On
Director