- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 30, 1946
- Place of Birth
- Portland, Oregon, USA
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 se…
Filmography
movieSlide
2025 · Director, Animation, Screenplay
movieWhale 52
2025 · Director, Cinematography
movieDuckville
2025 · Director
movieDownwind
2023 · Title Illustration
movieClaydream
2022 · Self
movieLipstick of the Brave
2022 · Director
movieDemi’s Panic
2021 · Director
movieThe One-Minute Memoir
2020 · Writer, Director
movieAnimation Outlaws
2019 · Self
movieSex & Violence 3
2019 · Director, Writer
movieNo Snow for Christmas
2018 · Writer, Director
tvTrump Bites
2018 · Director
movieThe Modern Lives
2018 · Director
movieGood Advice
2017 · Director, Screenplay
movieCop Dog
2017 · Director
movieRevengeance
2016 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieHitler's Folly
2016 · Nazi Soldier, Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Loneliest Stoplight
2015 · Director, Writer
movieThe Brainwashing of My Dad
2015 · Animation Director
Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project
movieBill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project
2015 · Writer
movieThe Gastronomic Shark
2015 · Director, Writer
movieABCs of Death 2
2014 · Director, Producer
movieKahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014 · Director
movieCheatin'
2014 · Director, Writer
movieFootprints
2014 · Director, Writer
movieThe Ornaments
2013 · Ornament #1, Director, Animation, Writer
Drunker Than a Skunk
movieDrunker Than a Skunk
2013 · Director
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
movieTiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
2012 · Director, Writer
movieWaiting for Her Sailor
2012 · Director
Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project
movieBill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project
2012 · Writer
movieSummer Bummer
2012 · Director, Writer
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
movieIngrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
2011 · Character Designer
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
movieThe Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
2011 · Writer
movieAdventures in Plymptoons!
2011 · Self
movieGuard Dog Global Jam
2011 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
2011 · Director
movieThe Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
2010 · Director, Writer
movieMexican Standoff
2009 · Director, Writer, Animation
movieHorn Dog
2009 · Director, Animation
tvRandom! Cartoons
2008 · Director, Writer, Creator
movieSanta: The Fascist Years
2008 · Director, Writer
movieForging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008 · Self
movieTokyo OnlyPic 2008
2008 · Director
movieIdiots and Angels
2008 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieHot Dog
2008 · Director, Writer
movieThe Luv Race
2008 · Screenstory, Director, Writer
movieGary Guitar
2007 · Director, Writer
movieShuteye Hotel
2007 · Director, Writer
movieFuck
2006 · Animation
Don't Download This Song
movieDon't Download This Song
2006 · Director, Animation
movieGuide Dog
2006 · Director, Writer
She She She She's a Bombshell
movieShe She She She's a Bombshell
2005 · Thanks
movieThe Fan and the Flower
2005 · Director
movieSpiral
2005 · Director, Writer, Animation, Producer
movieGuard Dog
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
movieHair High
2004 · Director, Screenplay, Producer, Animation
movieSpike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
2003 · Director, Writer, Animation
For Reel?
movieFor Reel?
2003 · Writer
movieMutant Aliens
2002 · Guard (voice), Director, Producer, Screenplay
tvChalkZone
2002 · Animation
movieParking
2002 · Director, Writer
An Early Movie
movieAn Early Movie
2002 · Director
House of Weirdness
movieHouse of Weirdness
2002 · Director
movie12 Tiny Christmas Tales
2001 · Director
movieEat
2001 · Director, Writer
movieGodass
2000 · Self
movieCan't Drag Race with Jesus
2000 · Director, Writer
movieNew Advances in Medicine
2000 · Director
movieHappiness Is... Licking the Frosting
2000 · Director
movieThe Ultimate Blowjob
2000 · Director
movieHow to Grab a Woman's Breast
2000 · Director
movieThe Death of Jackson Pollock
2000 · Director
movieHow to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
2000 · Director
moviePubic Hair Transplants
2000 · Director
movieRudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
2000 · Director
movieSurprise Cinema
1999 · Director, Writer
Life
movieLife
1999 · Director
movieMore Sex & Violence
1999 · Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
movieThe Exciting Life of a Tree
1999 · Director
movieI Married a Strange Person!
1998 · Creator, Director, Writer, Animation
tvCartoon Sushi
1998 · Director
movieHelter Shelter
1998 · Director, Writer
movieGeneral Chaos: Uncensored Animation
1998 · Director
movieBoney D
1997 · Writer, Director
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
movieSpike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
1997 · Director
Twisted Toons
movieTwisted Toons
1997 · Self, Director
movieMondo Plympton
1997 · , Director, Writer
movieSex & Violence
1997 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieWalt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
1997 · Director
The Animal Lover
movieThe Animal Lover
1997 · Director
movieHow to Make Love to a Woman
1996 · Director, Writer, Producer, Animation
moviePlympmania
1996 · Writer, Director, Producer, Animation
movieSmell the Flowers
1996 · Writer, Director
movieGuns on the Clackamas
1995 · , Director, Writer, Producer
movieNosehair
1994 · Director, Writer
movieFaded Roads
1994 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieThe World's Greatest Animation
1994 · Director
movieJ. Lyle
1994 · Producer, Director, Writer
movieDraw
1993 · Writer, Director
movieDancing All Day
1992 · Director, Writer
movieThe Tune
1992 · Creator, Director, Story
movieFlooby Nooby
1992 · Director
movieLovesick Hotel
1992 · Director
Toon-O-Rama
movieToon-O-Rama
1992 · Director, Writer
Animania
tvAnimania
1991 · Director
moviePush Comes to Shove
1991 · Director, Writer, Animation
movieNo Nose Blues
1991 · Director, Animation
movieThe Wiseman
1991 · Director, Writer
movieIsn't It Good Again
1991 · Director, Animation
moviePlymptoons
1990 · Director, Writer, Animation
movieTango Schmango
1990 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieDig My Do
1990 · Director, Animation, Writer
tvThe Simpsons
1989 · Animation
movie25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989 · Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité), Director, Writer, Producer
tvPlymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
1989 · Young Man, (voice), Narrator (voice), Lucas (voice), Art Direction, Producer, Writer, Animation Director, Art Designer, Creator
movieAnimated Self-Portraits
1989 · Writer, Director
Self-Portrait
movieSelf-Portrait
1989 · Director
Noodle Ear
movieNoodle Ear
1989 · Director
movieAcid Rain
1989 · Director
movieHow to Kiss
1988 · Director, Writer
movieOne of Those Days
1988 · Director, Writer, Animation
movieYour Face
1987 · Director, Writer, Producer
Love in the Fast Lane
movieLove in the Fast Lane
1987 · Director, Writer, Producer
Drawing Lesson #2
movieDrawing Lesson #2
1985 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieBoomtown
1985 · Director
tvAl TV
1984 · Director
movieLucas, the Ear of Corn
1977 · Lucas, Director, Writer
movieThe Great Turn On
1968 · Director