Bill Plympton
Directing
Born April 30, 1946 · Portland, Oregon, USA
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.
Directed (106)
Slide
2025
Whale 52
2025
Duckville
2025
Lipstick of the Brave
2022
Demi’s Panic
2021
The One-Minute Memoir
2020
Sex & Violence 3
2019
No Snow For Christmas
2018
The Modern Lives
2018
Good Advice
2017
Cop Dog
2017
Revengeance
2016
Hitler's Folly
2016
The Loneliest Stoplight
2015
The Gastronomic Shark
2015
ABCs of Death 2
2014
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
Cheatin'
2014
Footprints
2014
The Ornaments
2013
Drunker Than a Skunk
2013
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
2012
Waiting for Her Sailor
2012
Summer Bummer
2012
The Flying House
2011
Guard Dog Global Jam
2011
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
2011
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
2010
Mexican Standoff
2009
Horn Dog
2009
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
2008
Idiots and Angels
2008
Hot Dog
2008
The Luv Race
2008
Gary Guitar
2007
Shuteye Hotel
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
House of Weirdness
2002
An Early Movie
2002
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
2001
Eat
2001
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
2000
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
2000
New Advances in Medicine
2000
The Death of Jackson Pollock
2000
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
2000
The Ultimate Blowjob
2000
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
2000
Pubic Hair Transplants
2000
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
2000
Surprise Cinema
1999
Life
1999
More Sex & Violence
1999
The Exciting Life of a Tree
1999
I Married a Strange Person!
1998
Helter Shelter
1998
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
1998
Boney D
1997
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
1997
Twisted Toons
1997
Mondo Plympton
1997
Sex & Violence
1997
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
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
Faded Roads
1994
The World's Greatest Animation
1994
J. Lyle
1994
Draw
1993
Dancing All Day
1992
The Tune
1992
Flooby Nooby
1992
Lovesick Hotel
1992
Toon-O-Rama
1992
Push Comes to Shove
1991
No Nose Blues
1991
The Wiseman
1991
Isn't It Good Again
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 (14)
Claydream
2022
Animation Outlaws
2019
Hitler's Folly
2016
The Ornaments
2013
The Flying House
2011
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008
Mutant Aliens
2002
Godass
2000
Twisted Toons
1997
Mondo Plympton
1997
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
1977