Bill Plympton
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.
The Ornaments
(Ornament #1)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
(Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité))
Guns on the Clackamas
Adventures in Plymptoons!
(Self)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
(Lucas)
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
(Self)
Animation Outlaws
(Self)
Twisted Toons
(Self)
Mutant Aliens
(Guard (voice))
Hitler's Folly
(Nazi Soldier)
Mondo Plympton
Claydream
(Self)
Godass
(Self)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Lucas (voice))
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
((voice))
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Narrator (voice))
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Young Man)
Fuck
(Animation)
Mutant Aliens
(Director)
The Tune
(Director)
The Tune
(Creator)
Idiots and Angels
(Director)
Idiots and Angels
(Writer)
J. Lyle
(Producer)
Push Comes to Shove
(Director)
Guard Dog
(Writer)
Guard Dog
(Director)
Guard Dog
(Producer)
The Fan and the Flower
(Director)
The Exciting Life of a Tree
(Director)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
(Director)
Idiots and Angels
(Producer)
Sex & Violence
(Producer)
Sex & Violence
(Writer)
Sex & Violence
(Director)
I Married a Strange Person!
(Director)
I Married a Strange Person!
(Creator)
How to Make Love to a Woman
(Director)
How to Make Love to a Woman
(Writer)
How to Make Love to a Woman
(Producer)
How to Make Love to a Woman
(Animation)
Lipstick of the Brave
(Director)
Nosehair
(Director)
How to Kiss
(Director)
Drawing Lesson #2
(Director)
One of Those Days
(Director)
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
(Director)
Your Face
(Writer)
Your Face
(Director)
ABCs of Death 2
(Director)
Boomtown
(Director)
Guide Dog
(Writer)
Guide Dog
(Director)
Love in the Fast Lane
(Writer)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
(Director)
Love in the Fast Lane
(Director)
Love in the Fast Lane
(Producer)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
(Writer)
Cheatin'
(Director)
J. Lyle
(Writer)
J. Lyle
(Director)
Hair High
(Director)
Faded Roads
(Producer)
Faded Roads
(Writer)
Faded Roads
(Director)
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
(Writer)
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
(Director)
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
(Character Designer)
Footprints
(Director)
Hair High
(Screenplay)
Parking
(Director)
Demi’s Panic
(Director)
Eat
(Director)
Eat
(Writer)
Waiting for Her Sailor
(Director)
Santa: The Fascist Years
(Director)
Horn Dog
(Director)
Summer Bummer
(Director)
Surprise Cinema
(Director)
Hot Dog
(Director)
Hot Dog
(Writer)
Plymptoons
(Director)
The Ornaments
(Director)
The Ornaments
(Writer)
The Ornaments
(Animation)
The Great Turn On
(Director)
The Loneliest Stoplight
(Writer)
The Loneliest Stoplight
(Director)
Guns on the Clackamas
(Director)
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
(Director)
Twisted Toons
(Director)
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
(Director)
Shuteye Hotel
(Director)
Shuteye Hotel
(Writer)
Hitler's Folly
(Director)
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
(Director)
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
(Director)
Hitler's Folly
(Writer)
Hitler's Folly
(Producer)
Revengeance
(Director)
Lovesick Hotel
(Director)
Flooby Nooby
(Director)
Drunker Than a Skunk
(Director)
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
(Director)
New Advances in Medicine
(Director)
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
(Director)
The Ultimate Blowjob
(Director)
The Death of Jackson Pollock
(Director)
Downwind
(Title Illustration)
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
(Director)
Pubic Hair Transplants
(Director)
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
(Director)
Guard Dog Global Jam
(Director)
Spiral
(Animation)
Spiral
(Director)
Spiral
(Writer)
Guard Dog Global Jam
(Writer)
Guard Dog Global Jam
(Producer)
Spiral
(Producer)
More Sex & Violence
(Animation)
More Sex & Violence
(Director)
More Sex & Violence
(Producer)
More Sex & Violence
(Writer)
Dancing All Day
(Director)
Dancing All Day
(Writer)
The World's Greatest Animation
(Director)
The Wiseman
(Director)
Slide
(Animation)
Slide
(Director)
Mondo Plympton
(Director)
Mutant Aliens
(Producer)
Animated Self-Portraits
(Writer)
Animated Self-Portraits
(Director)
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
(Director)
Cop Dog
(Director)
The Luv Race
(Screenstory)
The Luv Race
(Director)
The Luv Race
(Writer)
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
(Director)
Helter Shelter
(Writer)
Guns on the Clackamas
(Producer)
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
(Director)
Toon-O-Rama
(Director)
Guns on the Clackamas
(Writer)
Toon-O-Rama
(Writer)
The Prophet
(Co-Director)
Revengeance
(Writer)
Sex & Violence 3
(Writer)
Sex & Violence 3
(Director)
Life
(Director)
Helter Shelter
(Director)
The Gastronomic Shark
(Director)
The Gastronomic Shark
(Writer)
Gary Guitar
(Director)
Santa: The Fascist Years
(Writer)
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
(Writer)
Draw
(Writer)
For Reel?
(Writer)
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
(Writer)
Plympmania
(Writer)
Surprise Cinema
(Writer)
Smell the Flowers
(Writer)
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
(Writer)
Parking
(Writer)
Boney D
(Writer)
Footprints
(Writer)
Gary Guitar
(Writer)
Mutant Aliens
(Screenplay)
The Wiseman
(Writer)
Summer Bummer
(Writer)
The One-Minute Memoir
(Writer)
Slide
(Screenplay)
Tango Schmango
(Writer)
Nosehair
(Writer)
Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project
(Writer)
Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project
(Writer)
No Snow For Christmas
(Writer)
Mondo Plympton
(Writer)
The Modern Lives
(Director)
Boney D
(Director)
Draw
(Director)
Smell the Flowers
(Director)
No Snow For Christmas
(Director)
The Brainwashing of My Dad
(Animation Director)
Self-Portrait
(Director)
Noodle Ear
(Director)
Acid Rain
(Director)
An Early Movie
(Director)
House of Weirdness
(Director)
I Married a Strange Person!
(Writer)
I Married a Strange Person!
(Animation)
Cheatin'
(Writer)
ABCs of Death 2
(Producer)
Hair High
(Producer)
Hair High
(Animation)
The One-Minute Memoir
(Director)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
(Producer)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
(Writer)
Your Face
(Producer)
Revengeance
(Producer)
Tango Schmango
(Director)
Plympmania
(Animation)
Tango Schmango
(Producer)
Plympmania
(Director)
Plympmania
(Producer)
Dig My Do
(Writer)
Dig My Do
(Animation)
Dig My Do
(Director)
Drawing Lesson #2
(Producer)
Drawing Lesson #2
(Writer)
How to Kiss
(Writer)
One of Those Days
(Animation)
One of Those Days
(Writer)
Isn't It Good Again
(Director)
No Nose Blues
(Director)
No Nose Blues
(Animation)
Isn't It Good Again
(Animation)
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
(Animation)
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
(Director)
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
(Writer)
Plymptoons
(Animation)
Plymptoons
(Writer)
Push Comes to Shove
(Animation)
Push Comes to Shove
(Writer)
Horn Dog
(Animation)
The Tune
(Story)
Guard Dog
(Animation)
The Animal Lover
(Director)
Duckville
(Director)
Mexican Standoff
(Director)
Mexican Standoff
(Writer)
Whale 52
(Director)
Mexican Standoff
(Animation)
Whale 52
(Cinematography)
Good Advice
(Director)
Good Advice
(Screenplay)
Trump Bites
(Director)
Random! Cartoons
(Writer)
Random! Cartoons
(Director)
Random! Cartoons
(Creator)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Director)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Writer)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(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
(Producer)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Animation Director)
Al TV
(Director)
Animania
(Director)
Cartoon Sushi
(Director)
ChalkZone
(Animation)
The Simpsons
(Animation)
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
(Creator)