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Bill Plympton
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946; Portland) 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 | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.88 |
Birthday | 1946-04-30 |
Place of Birth | Portland, Oregon, USA |
Also Known As | Билл Плимптон, |
![25 Ways to Quit Smoking](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wDAVQWUpscgevckpge5gnlDnkcN.jpg)
1989
![25 Ways to Quit Smoking](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/wDAVQWUpscgevckpge5gnlDnkcN.jpg)
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
6.2/27
The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
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25 Ways to Quit Smoking
![Adventures in Plymptoons!](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
2011
![Adventures in Plymptoons!](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2/1
A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, c...
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Adventures in Plymptoons!
![Lucas, the Ear of Corn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kDrVB3j90qzgcDB211XeDBGUobL.jpg)
1977
![Lucas, the Ear of Corn](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kDrVB3j90qzgcDB211XeDBGUobL.jpg)
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
5/2
The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a you...
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Lucas, the Ear of Corn
![Hitler's Folly](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yAyXpwxLGE4OF9yJ6Mb7D0qIuYt.jpg)
2016
![Hitler's Folly](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/yAyXpwxLGE4OF9yJ6Mb7D0qIuYt.jpg)
Hitler's Folly
4.2/8
"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he...
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Hitler's Folly
![King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
2012
![King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution](https://nicosiaefe.gov.cy/video/assets/no-poster.png)
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
8.5/2
Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
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![Mondo Plympton](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tZQBhj9AFZpSOyXkPIqoGz2ZiYU.jpg)
1997
![Mondo Plympton](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/tZQBhj9AFZpSOyXkPIqoGz2ZiYU.jpg)
Mondo Plympton
6.5/2
A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymp...
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Mondo Plympton
![Claydream](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7LCEigCWhGnsCMLL5P2Omnby5kU.jpg)
2022
![Claydream](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7LCEigCWhGnsCMLL5P2Omnby5kU.jpg)
Claydream
5.7/3
A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential. Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Vinton revolutionize...
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Claydream
![Godass](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kqEr1N7EOkr6sMA3CBJQe16VxNj.jpg)
2000
![Godass](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kqEr1N7EOkr6sMA3CBJQe16VxNj.jpg)
Godass
1/1
An off-beat comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a punk girl's problems.
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Godass
![The Ornaments](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7gEKODNRL1LpsTUixtH0WCYXKWW.jpg)
2013
![The Ornaments](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/7gEKODNRL1LpsTUixtH0WCYXKWW.jpg)
The Ornaments
3/1
Well, it's that wonderful time of the year again... Merry Christmas, everyone!
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The Ornaments
![Twisted Toons](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iHfbvVBQ9ljVPOYGF2uaUA6NwF9.jpg)
1997
![Twisted Toons](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/iHfbvVBQ9ljVPOYGF2uaUA6NwF9.jpg)
Twisted Toons
0/0
Interviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an independent animator.
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Twisted Toons
![Guns on the Clackamas](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mICfEpqtOSat43C2tL5bhO5CUs3.jpg)
1995
![Guns on the Clackamas](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/mICfEpqtOSat43C2tL5bhO5CUs3.jpg)
Guns on the Clackamas
3/1
Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a movie. But everything is going wrong. The...
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![Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kAcv5CKaVf3Dhsxct8kaUAHeHXS.jpg)
2008
![Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/kAcv5CKaVf3Dhsxct8kaUAHeHXS.jpg)
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
0/0
A documentary about the early days of animation.
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![Animation Outlaws](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bK1HZfueyD0F5EKi25o5S2i3y0f.jpg)
2019
![Animation Outlaws](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/bK1HZfueyD0F5EKi25o5S2i3y0f.jpg)
Animation Outlaws
6.3/3
Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the thing...
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![Mutant Aliens](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/f6doYuJsaciPllLKy2VGWGLWXaV.jpg)
2002
![Mutant Aliens](http://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w154/f6doYuJsaciPllLKy2VGWGLWXaV.jpg)
Mutant Aliens
6.3/22
An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit violent, alien creatures – seek revenge against a space i...
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