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.
112 directing credits · 14 acting credits
Directing · 112
Random! Cartoons
2008
Al TV
1984
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
1989
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
Hair High
2004
ABCs of Death 2
2014
I Married a Strange Person!
1998
Trump Bites
2018
Animated Self-Portraits
1989
Idiots and Angels
2008
Guard Dog
2004
Mutant Aliens
2002
The Tune
1992
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
2008
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
1998
Animania
1991
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
2011
Cheatin'
2014
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
2003
Cartoon Sushi
1998
Revengeance
2016
The Loneliest Stoplight
2015
Your Face
1987
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
The Fan and the Flower
2005
The World's Greatest Animation
1994
Push Comes to Shove
1991
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
2010
Slide
2025
J. Lyle
1994
How to Kiss
1988
Tango Schmango
1990
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
1977
The One-Minute Memoir
2020
Horn Dog
2009
Drawing Lesson #2
1985
Hot Dog
2008
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
1997
Mexican Standoff
2009
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
2001
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989
Hitler's Folly
2016
More Sex & Violence
1999
Duckville
2025
Noodle Ear
1989
The Ornaments
2013
Plympmania
1996
Sex & Violence
1997
The Luv Race
2008
Waiting for Her Sailor
2012
Spiral
2005
Don't Download This Song
2006
No Snow For Christmas
2018
Guide Dog
2006
Guard Dog Global Jam
2011
Nosehair
1994
Summer Bummer
2012
New Advances in Medicine
2000
Acid Rain
1989
Shuteye Hotel
2007
Eat
2001
Footprints
2014
Dancing All Day
1992
The Ultimate Blowjob
2000
No Nose Blues
1991
House of Weirdness
2002
Isn't It Good Again
1991
Whale 52
2025
The Animal Lover
1997
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
2000
Flooby Nooby
1992
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
1997
One of Those Days
1988
How to Make Love to a Woman
1996
Boomtown
1985
Life
1999
Parking
2002
Lipstick of the Brave
2022
Boney D
1997
Plymptoons
1990
The Wiseman
1991
Mondo Plympton
1997
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
2012
Cop Dog
2017
Twisted Toons
1997
The Great Turn On
1968
Drunker Than a Skunk
2013
Surprise Cinema
1999
The Death of Jackson Pollock
2000
Toon-O-Rama
1992
Love in the Fast Lane
1987
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
2000
The Gastronomic Shark
2015
Self-Portrait
1989
Draw
1993
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
2000
Sex & Violence 3
2019
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
2000
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
2000
The Modern Lives
2018
Dig My Do
1990
The Exciting Life of a Tree
1999
Faded Roads
1994
Lovesick Hotel
1992
Pubic Hair Transplants
2000
Smell the Flowers
1996
An Early Movie
2002
Good Advice
2017
Helter Shelter
1998
Gary Guitar
2007
Demi’s Panic
2021
Acting · 14
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
1989
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
Animation Outlaws
2019
Claydream
2022
Mutant Aliens
2002
Godass
2000
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
1977
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989
Hitler's Folly
2016
The Ornaments
2013
Mondo Plympton
1997
Twisted Toons
1997