BILL PLYMPTON, Animator.

DIRECTOR BIO:
Academy Award Nominee Bill Plympton was born in Portland, Oregon on April 30, 1946 to Don (now a retired banker) and Wilda Plympton, he grew up in a large family of three girls and three boys. For the six children it was often far too wet to play outside. Plympton credits Oregon's rainy climate for nurturing his drawing skills and imagination. He also was a cub scout and played little league when the weather permitted. In 1964 he graduated from Oregon City High School where he participated in J.V. basketball, swimming and the art club. He went on to Portland State University, where he edited the yearbook and was a member of the film society. It was for this film society that he first attempted animation, making a yearbook promo that was accidentally shot upside-down, rendering it totally useless. To avoid the Vietnam War, Plympton served in the National Guard from 1967 to 1972. In 1968, he moved to New York City and began a year of study at the School of Visual Arts. Making the Big Apple his home, Plympton served a long tenure as an illustrator and cartoonist. Between toting his portfolio and catching cheap matinees, he designed the magazines: Cineaste, Filmmakers Newsletter, and Film Society Review. His illustrations have graced the pages of The New York Times, Vogue, House Beautiful, The Village Voice, Screw, and Vanity Fair. His cartoons appeared in such magazines as Viva, Penthouse, Rolling Stone, National Lampoon, and Glamour. In 1975, in The Soho Weekly News, he began "Plympton," a political cartoon strip. By 1981, it was syndicated in over twenty papers by Universal Press.


DIRECTOR FILMOGRAPHY:
LUCAS THE EAR OF CORN (1977) (4:00)
Boomtown (1985) (6:00)
Drawing Lesson #2 (1988) (6:00)
Your Face (1987) (3:10) *Academy Award Nominee
Love in the Fast Lane (1987) (3:00)
One of Those Days (1988) (7:50) *Included on "Avoid Eye Contact"
How To Kiss (1989) (6:35)
25 Ways To Quit Smoking (1989) (5:00)
Plymptoons (1990) (6:45)
Tango Schmango (1990)
Dig My Do (1990) (4:00)
The Wiseman (1990) (4:30)
Push Comes To Shove (1991) (6:30)
Draw (1993) (2:00)
Faded Roads (1994) (2:30)
Nose Hair (1994) (7:00)
How To Make Love To a Woman (1995) (5:00) *Included on "Avoid Eye Contact"
Smell The Flowers (1996) (2:00)
Boney D. (1996) (3:00)
Plympmania (1996) (8:00)
Sex and Violence (1997) (8:00)
The Exciting Life of a Tree (1998) (7:00)
More Sex and Violence (1998) (7:00)
Surprise Cinema (1999) (7:00)
Can't Drag Race With Jesus. (2000) (2:00)

Features:
Hair High (2003)
Mutant Aliens (2000)
I Married A Strange Person (1998)
Mondo Plympton
The Tune


To contact Bill Plympton, please write to plymptoons@aol.com
Or go to his personal website, located at www.plymptoons.com.