Bill Plympton
Known for: Directing
Born: April 30, 1946
Place of birth: 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.
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Filmography
120 movies · 8 TV shows, newest first
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Slide
2025
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Whale 52
2025
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Duckville
2025
6.8
Downwind
2023
6.8
Claydream
2022
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Lipstick of the Brave
2022
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Demi’s Panic
2021
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The One-Minute Memoir
2020
6.3
Animation Outlaws
2019
6.0
Sex & Violence 3
2019
6.0
No Snow for Christmas
2018
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Trump Bites
2018
5.0
The Modern Lives
2018
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Good Advice
2017
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Cop Dog
2017
5.5
Revengeance
2016
4.2
Hitler's Folly
2016
6.6
The Loneliest Stoplight
2015
6.3
The Brainwashing of My Dad
2015NR
Bill Plympton's Revengeance Kickstarter Project
2015
5.5
The Gastronomic Shark
2015
5.4
ABCs of Death 2
2014
7.3
Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet
2014
6.6
Cheatin'
2014
5.5
Footprints
2014
3.0
The Ornaments
20136.0
Drunker Than a Skunk
20136.0
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
2012
5.5
Waiting for Her Sailor
2012NR
Bill Plympton's Cheatin' Kickstarter Project
2012
5.7
Summer Bummer
2012NR
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
2011NR
The Winsor McCay Resurrection Project
2011
2.0
Adventures in Plymptoons!
2011
6.0
Guard Dog Global Jam
2011
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The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
2011
5.4
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
2010
6.0
Mexican Standoff
2009
6.6
Horn Dog
2009
7.5
Random! Cartoons
2008
5.6
Santa: The Fascist Years
2008
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Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
2008
6.5
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
2008
6.7
Idiots and Angels
2008
6.5
Hot Dog
2008
5.0
The Luv Race
2008
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Gary Guitar
2007
6.2
Shuteye Hotel
2007
6.4
Fuck
2006NR
Don't Download This Song
2006
6.2
Guide Dog
2006NR
She She She She's a Bombshell
2005
6.4
The Fan and the Flower
2005
6.0
Spiral
2005
6.2
Guard Dog
2004
6.4
Hair High
2004
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Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
20039.0
For Reel?
2003
6.2
Mutant Aliens
2002
7.3
ChalkZone
2002
7.2
Parking
2002NR
An Early Movie
2002NR
House of Weirdness
2002
6.9
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
2001
5.4
Eat
2001
3.3
Godass
2000
8.0
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
2000
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How to Grab a Woman's Breast
2000NR
New Advances in Medicine
2000NR
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
2000NR
The Ultimate Blowjob
2000NR
The Death of Jackson Pollock
2000NR
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
2000NR
Pubic Hair Transplants
2000NR
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
2000
6.2
Surprise Cinema
19997.8
Life
1999
5.7
More Sex & Violence
1999
5.6
The Exciting Life of a Tree
1999
7.2
I Married a Strange Person!
1998
7.0
Cartoon Sushi
1998
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Helter Shelter
1998
6.2
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
1998
6.0
Boney D
19977.0
Spike and Mike's Festival of Animation Sick & Twisted Volume 4
1997NR
Twisted Toons
1997
6.7
Mondo Plympton
1997
5.9
Sex & Violence
1997
6.5
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
1997NR
The Animal Lover
1997
6.2
How to Make Love to a Woman
1996
5.7
Plympmania
1996
6.0
Smell the Flowers
1996
6.0
Guns on the Clackamas
1995
5.6
Nosehair
1994
5.8
Faded Roads
1994
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The World's Greatest Animation
1994
7.0
J. Lyle
1994
5.0
Draw
1993
5.0
Dancing All Day
1992
6.6
The Tune
1992
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Lovesick Hotel
1992
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Flooby Nooby
1992NR
Toon-O-Rama
1992NR
Animania
1991
5.9
Push Comes to Shove
1991
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No Nose Blues
1991
6.3
The Wiseman
1991
7.0
Isn't It Good Again
1991
6.4
Plymptoons
1990
8.0
Tango Schmango
1990
9.0
Dig My Do
1990
8.0
The Simpsons
1989
6.4
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
1989
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Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
1989
6.1
Animated Self-Portraits
1989NR
Self-Portrait
1989NR
Noodle Ear
1989
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Acid Rain
1989
6.3
How to Kiss
1988
6.8
One of Those Days
1988
6.7
Your Face
19876.7
Love in the Fast Lane
19875.9
Drawing Lesson #2
1985
6.7
Boomtown
1985
6.3
Al TV
1984
5.7
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
1977
4.0
The Great Turn On
1968