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Bill Kopp
American animator, writer and voice actor
William Kopp is an American animator, writer and voice actor.
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Bill Kopp | |
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| Born | William Kopp Rockford, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
Kopp studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. In 1984, he won a Merit Award from the Student Academy Awards for Mr. Gloom. In 1985, he won a Student Academy Award for Observational Hazard.
Kopp animated the Whammy on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck and voiced the title character on Fox's Eek! The Cat and Kutter in The Terrible Thunderlizards, which he created with Savage Steve Holland. He also voiced Tom in the Tom and Jerry films Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars and Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry.[1]
He was an animator for The Tracey Ullman Show "The Simpsons" shorts, but left after one season.
Kopp created The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show and Mad Jack the Pirate, worked as an executive producer and writer for Toonsylvania, produced and directed Tom and Jerry cartoons, wrote Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Incredible Crash Dummies. Kopp worked on the story of the three Roger Rabbit Shorts, Tummy Trouble, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Up. He was also the writer/director/co-producer on Tales from the Crypt's series finale "The Third Pig".
He was the director of most episodes of The Twisted Whiskers Show.
Kopp is a regular on Cartoon Network's Mighty Magiswords providing the voice of Man Fish the Fish Man.
He currently resides in California.
Film
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1985 | Jac Mac and Rad Boy Go! | Rad Boy | |
| Better Off Dead | animator | ||
| 1986 | One Crazy Summer | character designer animation supervisor chief animator | |
| 1989 | Tummy Trouble | story animator | |
| 1990 | Roller Coaster Rabbit | story animator | |
| 1993 | Trail Mix-Up | story (uncredited)[2] | |
| 2005 | Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars | Tom, Press Guy #1 | writer director voice director voice actor |
| Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry | Tom, Frank | writer director voice director voice actor |
Television
| Year | Film | Role | Notes |
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| 1987 | The Tracey Ullman Show | animator | |
| 1988–1991 | A Pup Named Scooby-Doo | Storyboard Artist and Layout Artist (uncredited) | |
| 1991–1994 | Taz-Mania | writer | |
| 1992–1997 | Eek! The Cat | Eek, Pierre | creator writer narrator supervising producer voice actor |
| 1994 | The Baby Huey Show | creative director | |
| 1995 | The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show | Polite Coyote[3] | creator writer producer voice director voice actor |
| 1995–1997 | The What-A-Cartoon! Show | Yuckie Duck | voice actor |
| 1996 | Tales from the Crypt | writer director animation director character designer storyboard artist Episode 7.13: "The Third Pig" | |
| 1998–1999 | Toonsylvania | creator writer executive producer voice director | |
| 1998–1999 | Mad Jack the Pirate | Mad Jack | creator writer executive producer casting director voice director voice actor |
| 2001 | Capertown Cops | writer | |
| 2002 | House of Mouse | writer Episode 3.10: "Humphrey in the House" | |
| 2004–2007 | Danny Phantom | storyboard artist | |
| 2010 | 'Til Death | Dolphin, Whale | Episode 4.21: "The Wedding" |
| The Twisted Whiskers Show | Mister Mewser, Jack | writer director voice actor | |
| 2011 | Dan Vs. | Additional Voices | director |
| 2015 | Wabbit | writer only Episode 1.7a: "White House Rabbit" | |
| 2016–2019 | Mighty Magiswords | Man Fish the Fish Man, Eel, Boot, Monster Toupee, Centipede 1 & 2, Seaslug-Chan, Justin Bottlenose Posse Person 1, Vendor, Sea Sponge, Vortex Donut, Bear Claw, King Chilidonut, Jeff, Dino | voice actor |
| 2019 | Amphibia | Marine | Episode 1.16: "Bizarre Bazaar" |
- Reboy, Judith (1995). "Bill Kopp on The Record". Animato! #33. p. 60. Archived from the original on June 29, 2006. Retrieved 1 May 2011.
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