Directing · b. 1946 · Portland, Oregon, USA

Bill Plympton

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 a...

Directed
Slide 2025 Duckville 2025 Whale 52 2025 Lipstick of the Brave 2022 Demi’s Panic 2021 The One-Minute Memoir 2020 Sex & Violence 3 2019 The Modern Lives 2018 No Snow For Christmas 2018 Cop Dog 2017 Good Advice 2017 Hitler's Folly 2016 Revengeance 2016 The Loneliest Stoplight 2015 The Gastronomic Shark 2015 ABCs of Death 2 2014 Cheatin' 2014 Footprints 2014 Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet 2014 The Ornaments 2013 Drunker Than a Skunk 2013 Waiting for Her Sailor 2012 Summer Bummer 2012 Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway 2012 The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation 2011 Guard Dog Global Jam 2011 The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger 2010 Horn Dog 2009 Mexican Standoff 2009 Idiots and Angels 2008 Santa: The Fascist Years 2008 Hot Dog 2008 Tokyo OnlyPic 2008 2008 The Luv Race 2008 Shuteye Hotel 2007 Gary Guitar 2007 Guide Dog 2006 The Fan and the Flower 2005 Spiral 2005 Guard Dog 2004 Hair High 2004 Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal 2003 Mutant Aliens 2002 Parking 2002 An Early Movie 2002 House of Weirdness 2002 12 Tiny Christmas Tales 2001 Eat 2001 Can't Drag Race with Jesus 2000 New Advances in Medicine 2000 Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting 2000 The Ultimate Blowjob 2000 How to Grab a Woman's Breast 2000 The Death of Jackson Pollock 2000 How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference 2000 Pubic Hair Transplants 2000 Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer 2000 The Exciting Life of a Tree 1999 Surprise Cinema 1999 More Sex & Violence 1999 Life 1999 I Married a Strange Person! 1998 General Chaos: Uncensored Animation 1998 Helter Shelter 1998 Sex & Violence 1997 Twisted Toons 1997 Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet 1997 Mondo Plympton 1997 Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4 1997 Boney D 1997 The Animal Lover 1997 How to Make Love to a Woman 1996 Smell the Flowers 1996 Plympmania 1996 Guns on the Clackamas 1995 Nosehair 1994 J. Lyle 1994 Faded Roads 1994 The World's Greatest Animation 1994 Draw 1993 The Tune 1992 Flooby Nooby 1992 Lovesick Hotel 1992 Dancing All Day 1992 Toon-O-Rama 1992 Push Comes to Shove 1991 The Wiseman 1991 Isn't It Good Again 1991 No Nose Blues 1991 Plymptoons 1990 Tango Schmango 1990 Dig My Do 1990 25 Ways to Quit Smoking 1989 Animated Self-Portraits 1989 Self-Portrait 1989 Noodle Ear 1989 Acid Rain 1989 How to Kiss 1988 One of Those Days 1988 Your Face 1987 Love in the Fast Lane 1987 Drawing Lesson #2 1985 Boomtown 1985 Lucas, the Ear of Corn 1977 The Great Turn On 1968
Acting
Claydream Self 2022 Animation Outlaws Self 2019 Adventures in Plymptoons! Self 2011 Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930 Self 2008 Godass Self 2000
Other Credits
Downwind Title Illustration 2023 The Brainwashing of My Dad Animation Director 2015 Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project Writer 2015 Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project Writer 2012 Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest Character Designer 2011 The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project Writer 2011 Fuck Animation 2006 For Reel? Writer 2003
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