Birthday:
04-30-1946
(78 years)
Birthplace:
Portland, Oregon, USA
Biography
Bill Plympton (born April 30, 1946; Portland) 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.
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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The Ornaments
Act like Ornament #1
event2013 star_border 3
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Well, it's that wonderful time of the year again... Merry Christmas, everyone!
25 Ways to Quit Smoking
Act like Narrateur / Homme (voix) (Non crédité)
event1989 star_border 6.2
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The perilous road to kicking the habit is explored in twenty-six vignettes that include various professionals and contraptions.
Guns on the Clackamas
event1995 star_border 3
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Nigel Nado, the notable documentary filmmaker, is trying to make a movie about some people trying to make a movie. But everything is going wrong. The subject of his documentary, the western 'Guns on the Clackamas' is plagued with problems. The lead actress has a severe stutter. And since she also happens to be the Executive Producer's mistress, there's not much that can be done to remedy the situation. Unsuccessful in turning the movie into a yodeling extravaganza, they decide to fire the actress. This results in having her irate beau pull the plug on the film's financing. The beginning of the end is marked by cast members dropping like flies due to any number of reasons. Bad macaroni salad. Bad chili. Bad caterer. A camera dolly runs over a crew member, severing some key limb or another. Then since no cast member has survived, and the film's producers can't hire replacements, the 'Guns on Clackamas' makers must resort to solutions at once startling and hilarious.
Adventures in Plymptoons!
Act like Himself
event2011 star_border 2
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A documentary film about Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton. This is a portrait piece that includes interviews with family, friends, colleagues, critics, and fans.
Lucas, the Ear of Corn
Act like Lucas
event1977 star_border 5
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The story of Lucas, a young ear of corn, from his days in the cornfield with his mother to the moment he ultimately meets his fate as a meal for a young boy.
Forging the Frame: The Roots of Animation, 1921-1930
Act like Himself
event2008
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A documentary about the early days of animation.
Animation Outlaws
Act like Himself
event2019 star_border 6.3
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Walt Disney said “We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.” Outside of Walt himself there are few people who have brought together and united more animators in the history of the genre than Craig "Spike" Decker and Mike Gribble, known to all as Spike & Mike. They created an animation festival that helped launch the careers of John Lasseter, Peter Lord, Will Vinton, Bill Plympton and Mike Judge to name just a few. Their Spike & Mike festival had an enormous impact on animation that was felt the world over. The festival was known as much for the breakthrough animation it presented as the outrageous antics of the founders.
Twisted Toons
Act like Himself
event1997
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Interviews with Bill Plympton and others in the field of animation follow his development as an independent animator.
Mutant Aliens
Act like Guard (voice)
event2002 star_border 6.3
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An unlikely crew – an astronaut, his intrepid daughter, and a quintet of sympathetic, albeit violent, alien creatures – seek revenge against a space industry baron.
Hitler's Folly
Act like Nazi Soldier
event2016 star_border 4.2
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"Hitler's Folly" explores what might have happened if Adolf Hitler's art career had been more successful and instead of becoming an evil dictator, he was inspired to become an animator like Walt Disney.
King-Size Comedy: Tex Avery and the Looney Tunes Revolution
Act like Himself
event2012 star_border 8.5
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Focuses on how the legend of animation, Tex Avery, revolutionized cartoons.
Mondo Plympton
event1997 star_border 6.5
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A compilation of animator Bill Plympton's classic shorts, including "Your Face", "How to Kiss", "One of Those Days", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", "Plymptoons", "Nosehair" and "How to Make Love to a Woman". In between, an animated version of Bill answers questions about his life and career.
Claydream
Act like Self
event2022 star_border 6.2
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A modern day Walt Disney, Will Vinton picked up a ball of clay and saw a world of potential. Known as the “Father of Claymation,” Vinton revolutionized the animation business during the 80s and 90s. But after 30 years of being the unheralded king of clay, Will Vinton’s carefully sculpted American dream came crumbling down. Structured around interviews with this charismatic pioneer and his close collaborators, the film charts the rise and fall of the Academy Award and Emmy winning Will Vinton Studios.
Godass
Act like Self
event2000 star_border 1
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An off-beat comedy about how having a gay father can be the least of a punk girl's problems.
Plymptoons: The Complete Early Works of Bill Plympton
Act like Young Man (1 ep.)
event1989
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Animator Bill Plympton first received widespread public attention when his outré "Your Face" (1987) was nominated for an Academy Award for Animated Short. This collection of short films—some as brief as 15 seconds—made between 1985 and 1991, showcase his unique talent much more effectively than his ponderous feature films. But in off-the-wall shorts like "Your Face", "25 Ways to Quit Smoking", and the 15-second shorts made for MTV, he emerges as an entertaining and highly original filmmaker.
Fuck
Animation (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.4
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A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gained from its use.
The Tune
Creator (1 ep.)
event1992 star_border 6.2
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Del is a song writer for the obnoxious Mr. Mega, and in love with Didi, Mega's secretary. His quest to write a hit tune brings him to the wacky world of Flooby Nooby, where he just might learn to write songs from the heart. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Idiots and Angels
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.8
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Angel, a selfish rotter is hanging around in a local bar, groping the wife of the barman and dealing with weapons. One morning he wakes up finding a pair of wings growing at his back. These wings do good deeds against his nature. But suddenly he finds himself fighting those who want these wings for their own dark plans.
J. Lyle
Producer (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 6
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A sleazy lawyer, who owns an apartment building, torments the inhabitants so they'll move out allowing him to build a toxic waste dump in its place.
Push Comes to Shove
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 5.6
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It's the little things that really hurt.
Guard Dog
Writer (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.4
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Why do dogs bark at such innocent creatures as pigeons and squirrels... what are they afraid of? This film answers that eternal question. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
The Fan and the Flower
Director (1 ep.)
event2005 star_border 6.4
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A narrator tells us the story of a ceiling fan, ensconced in the spare room of a house occupied by an old woman. The fan is lonely, and its life takes a turn for the better when the old woman puts a flowering plant in the spare room. A romance develops between fan and flower, until the old woman's decrepitude puts one of the lovers' life at risk. The fan must act.
The Exciting Life of a Tree
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.1
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Clever and mildly entertaining short from Plympton shows us the point of view of a tree throughout its life. The film gives us various vignettes dealing mostly with sex and violence.
Sex & Violence
Director (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5.8
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In eight minutes, animator Bill Plympton gives us 24 vignettes: seven are clearly about sex, 10 about violence, and seven others deal with human frailties, particularly the body as it ages. There are three stories of persons with confused priorities (including a guy tying his shoe while parachuting); the world's first phone sex; and a clever, if dangerous, way to find a lost key. Except for the titles of each sketch and a couple of jokes that turn on noise, these are visual trips into the psyche of men, women, God, animals, and Time (the enemy of us all).
I Married a Strange Person!
Creator (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 7.2
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On their wedding night, Grant begins experiencing strange, supernatural powers and his bride Keri can't cope. Whenever Grant thinks of something, it becomes reality, yet he doesn't know where this magic came from. Things become more complicated when a megalomaniac CEO sends the military to capture Grant in order to weaponize his abilities.
How to Make Love to a Woman
Writer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 6.1
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An animated look at the 11 essential steps to make the pilgrim's progess from finding a woman to making love to her. Along the way, our prototypical man gets advice about her eyes, her hair, her neck, her nostrils (and how they will flare as she becomes excited), the kiss, disrobing her (be subtle yet have authority), the hug, her nipples, and kinky accessories. At every turn, even as the exultant strains of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus signal that success is upon him, there are dangers and pitfalls. The journey requires steely resolve.
Lipstick of the Brave
Director (1 ep.)
event2022
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The animated journey of Madstone Rowan, composer and performer, as they find inspiration in the rock and pop music which inspired them to move beyond the gender binary and embrace their non-binary self.
Nosehair
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.2
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A man plucks a hair from his nostril. The hair wants back in.
How to Kiss
Director (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6.1
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As a brave couple demonstrates, the narrator uses quotes, examples and advice to help us all reach the highest heights in the art of kissing.
Drawing Lesson #2
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5.3
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While giving an art lesson, the Magic Line is distracted by thoughts of his true love and former model, Vera, with whom he'd had a wild and passionate affair.
One Of Those Days
Director (1 ep.)
event1988 star_border 6.2
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A day in the life of the world's unluckiest guy. Starting the morning off with a shaving nick from hell, he endures fires, mad dogs, rampaging vacuum cleaners, horny neighbors, kids with ray guns and, of course, a steam-roller.
12 Tiny Christmas Tales
Director (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 6.9
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12 little Christmas tales from Bill Plympton.
Your Face
Writer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 6.6
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A tenor, in suit and tie, with a receding hairline, sings a ballad to his love, “Your Face Is Like a Song,” to simple piano accompaniment. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
ABCs of Death 2
Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.4
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Taking all that was great from the first instalment, the movie aims to be a wilder, leaner, faster-paced and even more entertaining anthology this time around, with a new crop of award-winning, visionary filmmakers from around the globe.
Boomtown
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 5
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The Android Sisters sing about the alarming increase in U.S. defense spending during the cold war and its effect on various aspects of the domestic economy.
Guide Dog
Director (1 ep.)
event2006 star_border 6.2
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This twisted sequel to the Oscar-nominated film "Guard Dog" details the continuing adventures of an eager canine. This time he takes a job helping the blind, but still leaves a path of destruction in his wake.
Love in the Fast Lane
Producer (1 ep.)
event1987 star_border 5
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A man preoccupied with reading his Wall Street Journal goes into an antique store looking for a one-year-anniversary present for his wife. The old lady behind the counter gives him a bottle of perfume and warns him that it is "powerful," but he doesn't listen...
Cheatin'
Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7
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In a fateful bumper car collision, Jake and Ella meet and become the most loving couple in the long history of romance. But when a scheming "other" woman drives a wedge of jealousy into their perfect courtship, insecurity and hatred spell out an untimely fate. With only the help of a disgraced magician and his forbidden "soul machine", Ella takes the form of Jake's numerous lovers, desperately fighting through the malfunction and deceit as they try to reclaim their destiny.
Hair High
Director (1 ep.)
event2004 star_border 6.6
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Bill Plympton's gothic '50s high-school comedy about a love-triangle that goes terribly wrong. Two murdered teens return from the grave, then go to their prom to get revenge.
Faded Roads
Director (1 ep.)
event1994 star_border 5.4
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A country song about life on the highway, searching for lost love.
The Cow Who Wanted To Be a Hamburger
Writer (1 ep.)
event2010 star_border 5.4
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A children's fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and ultimately the test of a mother's love. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
Ingrid Pitt: Beyond the Forest
Character Designer (1 ep.)
event2011
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This acclaimed animation short depicts the miraculous escape of Jewish girl Ingrid Pitt at age 8 from a concentration camp, in a cross-generational collaboration between Oscar-nominee Bill Plympton & 10-yr-old 1st-time animator Perry Chen.
Footprints
Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 5.3
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A surreal film by shorts legend, animator Bill Plympton, about a quest to find a mysterious monster.
Parking
Director (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7
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A parking lot attendant loses his temper when his working place is invaded by a blade of grass. A furious battle ensues.
Demi’s Panic
Director (1 ep.)
event2021
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"Demi's Panic" follows the story of Demi, a young Latina professional living in NYC, whose prophetic dreams become all too real when an invisible danger causes catastrophic loss. Inspired by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Eat
Writer (1 ep.)
event2001 star_border 5.5
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A restaurant opens for the night. The diners include: A man dining alone, who orders a plate of spaghetti that becomes his dining companion. A couple; the woman talks endlessly (and unintelligibly), as her head mutates into a variety of shapes. Her ravenous companion refuses to pay, and the restaurant reclaims its food. A family with two children; they play, rather elaborately, with their food.
Waiting for Her Sailor
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.5
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Waiting for her sailor to return home, a woman on a cliff watches closely as a ship approaches.
Santa: The Fascist Years
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 5.6
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We all think of Santa as "Jolly old St.Nick". But who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed.
Horn Dog
Director (1 ep.)
event2009 star_border 6.6
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A plucky canine fends off an obese dog, attacking oysters, and a wayward killer violin bow, while trying to win the love of his heart's desire.
Summer Bummer
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 5.7
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A man about to go swimming imagines what horrors could be lurking deep in in the waters of his backyard pool.
Surprise Cinema
Director (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 6
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A mischievous man plays an assortment of extreme practical jokes on unsuspecting victims - like replacing one man's razor with a chainsaw.
Hot Dog
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.5
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The plucky hero joins a fire company to save the world and gain the affection he so richly deserves. However, the results never turn out the way he plans.
Plymptoons
Director (1 ep.)
event1990 star_border 6
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Sketches. We see human crash tests: a human hits a wall at five miles per hour, 50 mph, and 3000. A woman kisses a man as he listens to his Walkman; through the kiss, she experiences the music. We see the trouble with face-lifts. We watch the early history of the mob: a cowboy mounts his horse, digs in his spurs, and ... kaboom! We watch a pursuer get his just desserts. Then, an ape evolves into a man who evolves into an American football player, hunkered down on all fours. Four pieces of furniture express their love when the humans are out of the room. Last, the ultimate car alarm humiliates a thief.
The Great Turn On
Director (1 ep.)
event1968 star_border 4
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An early short about particular transactions on a park bench.
The Loneliest Stoplight
Writer (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.5
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The life and times of a neglected stoplight.
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2011: Animation
Director (1 ep.)
event2011
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Collective screening of the Academy Award nominated short films from the Animation category for 2011. (1) Madagascar, Carnet de Voyage (Travel Journal), Sacrebleu Prod., France, 11 min. (2) Let's Pollute, no company listed, USA, 6 min. (3) The Gruffalo, Magic Light Pic., UK/Germany, 27 min. (4) The Lost Thing, Passion Pic., Australia/UK, 15 min. (5) Day & Night, Pixar, USA, 6 min. (6) Urs, Filmakademie Baden-Württemburg, Germany, 10 min. (7) The Cow That Wanted To Be a Hamburger, Bill Plympton Studios, USA, 6 min.
Can't Drag Race with Jesus
Director (1 ep.)
event2000 star_border 6
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A southern preacher sings an ode to Jesus and auto racing, with a religious choir backing him up.
Shuteye Hotel
Writer (1 ep.)
event2007 star_border 6.2
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A film-noir murder mystery that takes place in a sleazy hotel. As cops investigate the gruesome murders, they become victims of this evil force.
Tiffany the Whale: Death on the Runway
Director (1 ep.)
event2012 star_border 6
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A young and earnest Tiffany makes her fashion debut in an attempt to be the most unlikely of super models and rejoin her beloved male model Conrad.
Walt Curtis: The Peckerneck Poet
Director (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5
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Directed by animator and filmmaker Bill Plympton, this 1997 documentary provides a glimpse into the life of poet Walt Curtis, on whose memoir MALA NOCHE is based.
Revengeance
Director (1 ep.)
event2016 star_border 6
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A low-rent bounty hunter named Rod Rosse, The One Man Posse, gets entangled in a web of danger when he takes on a job from an ex-biker/ex-wrestler turned U.S. senator named "Deathface."
Flooby Nooby
Director (1 ep.)
event1992
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Come with Bill to Flooby Nooby land!!
Lovesick Hotel
Director (1 ep.)
event1992
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Funny gags on every floor of the hotel.
Drunker Than a Skunk
Director (1 ep.)
event2013 star_border 6
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An adaptation of Walt Curtis's poem, "The Time The Drunk Came To Town And Got Drunker Than A Skunk, or So He Thought.", about a Cowboy town that torments the local drunk.
How to Grab a Woman's Breast
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A how-to guide.
New Advances in Medicine
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A woman gives birth.
The Death of Jackson Pollock
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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Crude animation by Bill Plympton. How the expressionist painter met his demise.
Happiness Is... Licking the Frosting
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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Crude animation by Bill Plympton. A boy tries to lick the frosting.
The Ultimate Blowjob
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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Crude animation by Bill Plympton. The title is as the animation does.
Downwind
Title Illustration (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 7
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A documentary about nuclear fallout in the United States, specifically members of the Shoshone Nation whose sacred land continues to be cordoned off as a nuclear test site.
How to Tell a Woman's Sexual Preference
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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A woman's shoes say a lot about her.
Pubic Hair Transplants
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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This guy gets a surprise out of his new hair transplant.
Rudolfo the Gay Lion Tamer
Director (1 ep.)
event2000
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This lion tamer has some tricks up his sleeve that are unlike any other tamer.
More Sex & Violence
Writer (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 5.8
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Twelve skits in six minutes: the first one and the final three are about sex, in between are sketches of blood, death, murder, truck crashes, a tough day on the toilet, a slip on a banana peel, and an omnivorous Elvis. In several vignettes, Plympton draws on the essentially comic image of men wearing jackets and ties in a world gone awry. Women, who don't appear all that often, cheerfully participate in the sex and don't hang around for the violence.
The Animation Show, Volume 4
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.2
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Mike Judge's fourth entry into The Animation Show series.
The World's Greatest Animation
Director (1 ep.)
event1994
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A whirlwind tour of first-class animated shorts, The World's Greatest Animation assembles, for the first time, an eye-popping assortment of Academy Award winners and nominees from the years 1978-90. From the Orwellian vision of zoo life Creature Comforts, to Crac!, a rocking chair's impressionistic view of the industrialization of Montréal, The World's Greatest Animation features some of the finest achievements in this unique art form.
The Wiseman
Director (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 6
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The pseudo-spiritual ramblings of a self-proclaimed ‘wiseman’ are interspersed by bizarre things happening to his head.
Slide
Director (1 ep.)
event2023 star_border 8
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The tale of a mythical cowboy who appears in a corrupt logging town (circa 1940s) and with the aid of his slide guitar and a giant Hellbug, he's able to battle the evil Mayor and his equally selfish twin brother to clean up the logging town of Sourdough Creek.
Animated Self-Portraits
Writer (1 ep.)
event1989 star_border 5.7
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An animated film compiled by David Ehrlich consisting of 27 animators from different countries all explaining themselves through their animation.
Tokyo OnlyPic 2008
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 6.5
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Virtuoso animated satire on the Olympic Games as a media spectacle. In the form of a news broadcast, the strangest sports, rituals and participants are included. The maker invited several animation artists to provide contributions to this truly colourful procession. Fun. Great fun.
Cop Dog
Director (1 ep.)
event2017
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The master of mayhem returns with a crazed tour de force involving plane wrecks, suspicious powders and one hell of a hound.
The Luv Race
Screenstory (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 5
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Three athletes race to win the heart of a woman.
Toon-O-Rama
Writer (1 ep.)
event1992
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An anthology of Bill Plympton animated shorts.
Helter Shelter
Director (1 ep.)
event1998
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This parody of Friends is a untypical sitcom that features three totally different people living together
General Chaos: Uncensored Animation
Director (1 ep.)
event1998 star_border 5.5
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A compilation of 20 outrageous and hilarious short animated films aimed at the adult audience.
The Prophet
Co-Director (1 ep.)
event2014 star_border 7.4
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Exiled artist and poet Mustafa embarks on a journey home with his housekeeper and her daughter; together the trio must evade the authorities who fear that the truth in Mustafa's words will incite rebellion.
Sex & Violence 3
Director (1 ep.)
event2019 star_border 6
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A new compendium of totally twisted gags from the mind of Bill Plympton.
Gary Guitar
Director (1 ep.)
event2007
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Gary Guitar and Miss Vera Violin are planning a picnic! Will the rain, snow, crows, ants, mosquitoes, giant robots, an ocean liner or Danny Drum ruin their beautiful day?
Tango Schmango
Writer (1 ep.)
event1990
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A haunting tango song inspires a dancing couple to try steps and moves that Fred and Ginger never imagined.
Smell the Flowers
Writer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5
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A busy executive gets a visit from a nature loving bird and introduces the harried office worker to the joys of flora and fauna, with a surprise ending.
Boney D
Writer (1 ep.)
event1997 star_border 5
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An amusing chase short starring a hipster dog named Boney D.
Draw
Writer (1 ep.)
event1993 star_border 4
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Western shootout
No Snow For Christmas
Writer (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 6
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'No Snow for Christmas' is an animated Christmas carol about the effects of climate change.
Plympmania
Writer (1 ep.)
event1996 star_border 5.7
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The best wacky, surreal pieces made for the Fox TV show "The Edge."
The One-Minute Memoir
Writer (1 ep.)
event2020
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When Academy Award®–winning animator and painter Joan Gratz asked eleven filmmakers if they would contribute to an omnibus film, she wasn’t sure what to expect—after prompting them to make a “one-minute memoir,” she let them figure out the rest. The One-Minute Memoir is the exuberant result: eleven stories ranging from the heartfelt to the absurd, all reflective of each director’s personal style.
The Modern Lives
Director (1 ep.)
event2018 star_border 5
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An epic music film comprised of 6 songs by blues rock musician Jackie Greene, animated by Bill Plympton. The music film follows Mr. Greene on tour in America and journeys through fantastic planets, the American South, the landscapes of his mind, and more.
The Brainwashing of My Dad
Animation Director (1 ep.)
event2015 star_border 6.1
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A filmmaker examines the rise of right-wing media through the lens of her father, whose immersion in it radicalized him and rocked the foundation of their family. She discovers this political phenomenon recurring in living rooms everywhere, and reveals the consequences conservative media has had on families and a nation.
Self-Portrait
Director (1 ep.)
event1989
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Plympton's animated self-portrait.
Noodle Ear
Director (1 ep.)
event1989
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House of Weirdness
Director (1 ep.)
event2002
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Early raunchy live action short by Bill Plympton, advertising a strange BDSM machine.
Acid Rain
Director (1 ep.)
event1989
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Environmental PSA by Bill Plympton.
An Early Movie
Director (1 ep.)
event2002
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Early live action horror short from Bill Plympton.
Dig My Do
Animation (1 ep.)
event1990
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An Elvis-like dog sings an ode to his hairstyle.
No Nose Blues
Director (1 ep.)
event1991
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A man sings an ode to a lost love, his nose.
Isn't It Good Again
Animation (1 ep.)
event1991 star_border 7
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A short musical about love.
Spike & Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation: Full Frontal
Director (1 ep.)
event2003
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Prepare for a heavy dose of animated mayhem as Spike and Mike's Sick and Twisted Festival of Animation brings home 30 of the most twisted cartoons imaginable. From the classic deer-squashing hilarity of Bambi Meets Godzilla to the outrageously violent antics of the ever adorable Happy Tree Friends, this collection offers some of the most gleefully offensive cartoons ever committed to celluloid.
Random! Cartoons
Director (1 ep.)
event2008 star_border 7.3
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Random! Cartoons is a spin-off of the Nickelodeon animation showcase Oh Yeah! Cartoons. Produced by Frederator Studios and Nickelodeon Animation Studios for the Nicktoons Network, it premiered on December 6, 2008.
Cartoon Sushi
Director (3 ep.)
event1998
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Cartoon Sushi is an animation showcase program that aired on MTV from 1997 to 1998. It was produced by Nick Litwinko. As a collection of animation shorts, Cartoon Sushi is a spiritual successor to MTV's Liquid Television. The title screen opening was illustrated by Danny Antonucci.
Al TV
Director (1 ep.)
event1984 star_border 6.3
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Al TV is a series of comedy/music video specials created by and starring singer-songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic.
Animania
Director (1 ep.)
event1991
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ChalkZone
Animation (1 ep.)
event2002 star_border 7.1
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When anything is erased from a chalkboard, it’s not really gone – it just enters a realm called the Chalkzone. And fifth grader Rudy Tabootie found a way to go there! With a piece of “White Lightning” chalk, he can enter the Chalkzone any time he likes. In the Chalkzone, Rudy befriends Snap, a bold superhero Rudy drew years ago. But Rudy soon discovers not every doodle is friendly.
The Simpsons
Animation (6 ep.)
event1989 star_border 8
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Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
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