Bill Kopp

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Bill Kopp (born in Rockford, Illinois on April 17, 1962) is an American animator and voice actor who animated the Whammy on the 1980s game show Press Your Luck, and voiced the title character on Nelvana's Eek! The Cat and Kutter in The Terrible Thunderlizards, which he created with Savage Steve Holland. He also voices Tom in the Tom and Jerry movies Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars and Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry. He was also an animator for The Simpsons Tracey Ullman Shorts, but left after the first season. He also 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 the current Tom and Jerry cartoons, wrote Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Incredible Crash Dummies and did the story on two Roger Rabbit Shorts; Tummy Trouble and Roller Coaster Rabbit. Was the writer/director/co-producer on HBO's Tales from the Crypt: The Third Pig. In 1984, he won an Academy Award-Student Film/Animation for Mr. Gloom and in 1985, he won his second Academy Award for Observational Hazard. He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. He is also the director of most of The Twisted Whiskers Show episodes. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bill Kopp, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Eek! The Cat

Koombaya, it's Eek the cat and all his friends. Annabelle, Eek's 800-pound girlfriend, Sharky the vicious but lovable sharkdog, and Elmo the elk. Plus you can watch the Terrible Thunderlizards try to make Bill and Scooter, the cavemen, extinct. Plus there's Klutter who's, well, we're not exactly sure what Klutter is, but watch and find out for yourself.

Release Date1992-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Eek (voice)

Episode Count37

Vote Count112

Amphibia

The adventures of 13-year-old, self-centered Anne Boonchuy who is magically transported to the fictitious world of Amphibia, a rural marshland full of frog-people. With the help of an excitable young frog named Sprig, Anne will become a hero and discover the first true friendship of her life.

Release Date2019-06-17

Charactersd Marnie (voice)

Episode Count1

Vote Count304

Mad Jack the Pirate

The adventures of the rather unsuccessful and cowardly Pirate Jack who despite his failures never doubts his own excellence and his dim-witted anthropomorphic rat sidekick Snuk as they sail the seas on their ship the Sea Chicken.

Release Date1998-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count23

Vote Count22

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show

The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show is an Animated Comedy television series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation and aired in 1995 as a spin-off of the show Marsupilami. The show was Disney's attempt to create a more "Edgy" cartoon in the vein of The Ren & Stimpy Show, and Rocko's Modern Life.

Release Date1995-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd

Episode Count65

Vote Count3

What a Cartoon!

Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.

Release Date1995-02-20

Charactersd Yuckie Duck (voice)

Episode Count2

Vote Count23

Toonsylvania

Toonsylvania is an animated television series, which ran for 2 seasons in 1998 on FOX's Saturday morning cartoon block in its first season, then was moved to Tuesday afternoons from September 14, 1998 until December 21, 1998, when it was cancelled. Reruns aired until 2000. It was produced in part by Steven Spielberg, following in the footsteps of his previous animated series, Tiny Toon Adventures and Animaniacs. Much like Animaniacs, the show had recurring cartoon series that appeared in each episode. Unlike Animaniacs, Toonsylvania didn't have a wide range of characters and almost every episode had the same cartoon segments.

Release Date1998-02-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Charactersd

Episode Count[ 13 ]

Vote Count2

Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry

After being evicted from their old house by Tom's owner for causing major damage, cat and mouse Tom and Jerry enter a race entitled the "Fabulous Super Race" to win a mansion.

Release Date2005-09-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tom / Frank (voice)

Vote Count294

Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!

While carrying on their usual hi-jinks, they inadvertantly stow-away on a spaceship bound for Mars. They meet up with the local Martian residents and cause them to invade the Earth, aided by the "Invincitron", a vacuum-wielding giant robot. Tom, Jerry and their Martian ally, Peep, save the day.

Release Date2005-01-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Tom / Press Guy #1 (voice)

Vote Count134

Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!: Blasting Off

Behind the scenes of Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!

Release Date2005-01-18

Charactersd Himself

Yuckie Duck: Short Orders

Yuckie Duck is a waiter in a restaurant. He keeps having problems, because the Limburger sandwich he gave to a man smelled bad and a steak he gave to a lady was too hard to cut.

Release Date1995-03-05

Charactersd Yuckie Duck

Yuckie Duck: I'm On My Way

Yuckie Duck works as a paramedic but does more harm than good to his patients.

Release Date1995-08-06

Charactersd Yuckie Duck

Wabbit: A Looney Tunes Production

Wabbit is an animated series starring Bugs Bunny. The series features many other Looney Tunes characters including Wile E. Coyote, Yosemite Sam, and the Tasmanian Devil.

Release Date2015-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count145

Tasty Tales of the Food Truckers

Three friends travel in their souped-up food truck to find the world's most unique ingredients and make amazing dishes that they can share online.

Release Date2019-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Tales from the Crypt

Cadaverous scream legend the Crypt Keeper is your macabre host for these forays of fright and fun based on the classic E.C. Comics tales from back in the day. So shamble up to the bar and pick your poison. Will it be an insane Santa on a personal slay ride? Honeymooners out to fulfill the "til death do we part" vow ASAP?

Release Date1989-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count917

Taz-Mania

The wildest teenager south of the Equator, Taz lives to party. With his insatiable appetite, he tends to eat everything in sight. The oldest child in a family of five, Taz works at a rather bizarre coastal resort, the Hotel Tasmania, as a bellhop, busboy to earn party money.

Release Date1991-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count19

Vote Count237

The Twisted Whiskers Show

The Twisted Whiskers Show is an American computer-animated comedy series based on the Twisted Whiskers greeting cards created by Terrill Bohlar. It began airing as the first program of the Hasbro/Discovery TV network, Hub Network on October 10, 2010. 26 half hour episodes of the CG series were produced by DQ Entertainment, MoonScoop Group and Mike Young Productions and distributed by Taffy Entertainment. The series is rated TV-G.

Release Date2010-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count1

Dan Vs.

Dan, a short (and short-tempered) man, has nothing better to do with his time than rail against what he perceives to be life's injustices – even if he's completely in the wrong. Whether it's a beef against a fast-food chain, an untalented barber, the entirety of Canada, the game of baseball or lemonade-selling children, petulant Dan is always spurred into action, usually dragging his best friend Chris and Chris' undercover operative wife, Elise, along on the revenge-filled ride.

Release Date2011-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count11

Vote Count16

1001 Nights

1001 Nights features Shahrzad, a storyteller, in a Persian court with her sister Donyazad, King Shahryar, Prince Shahzaman and a playful monkey named Maymoon.

Release Date2011-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

The Incredible Crash Dummies

Dummyland is a fictional world inhabited only by living crash dummies. Many make a living testing cars, just like the real ones. The story begins with crash dummy professor Dr. Zub has creating a new "uncrashable" prototype armor called the Torso 9000 and is testing it with the help of crash dummy Ted. Unfortunately the initial trial run goes awry and Ted's head is severed from his body. The following night however, Ted is accidentally replaced with the head of the evil Junkman, who can now harness the power of the Torso 9000 and manages to break free from the Crash Test facility.[3] Plotting to destroy the crash dummies, the Junkman sets up his base near an abandoned scrap heap and creates an army of killing machines out of spare car parts. When a valuable disc of information on the Torso 9000 is stolen, and finally Dr. Zub himself is kidnapped, heroes Slick & Spin step in to save the day.

Release Date1993-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

The Terrible Thunderlizards

The Terrible Thunderlizards is a segment that aired in Canada on YTV and in the United States as part of Eek! Stravaganza on the Fox Kids programming block.

Release Date1993-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

One Crazy Summer

An aspiring teenage cartoonist and his friends come to the aid of a singer trying to save her family property from developers.

Release Date1986-08-08

DepartmentVisual Effects

JobAnimation Supervisor

Vote Count202

Roger Rabbit: Tummy Trouble

Roger Rabbit once again is chosen for the dangerous task of babysitting Baby Herman and everything is going to be just fine.

Release Date1989-06-23

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count72

Roller Coaster Rabbit

Roger Rabbit struggles to keep wandering Baby Herman safe in an amusement park where the usual havoc ensues.

Release Date1990-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count75

Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas

Bugs can't seem to lose at Sam's casino. Then Sam realizes that Bugs has been cheating -- he has rabbit's feet.

Release Date2004-03-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

How to Haunt a House

In order to demonstrate how to haunt a house, the narrator arranges for Goofy to temporarily be "not living" and selects Donald Duck to be the one whom Goofy's ghost will haunt.

Release Date1999-10-30

DepartmentArt

JobStoryboard Artist

Vote Count14

The Incredible Crash Dummies

The animated short was entirely composed of computer generated imagery and centered on the adventures of Slick and Spin. A fellow Dummy named Ted has been chosen to use a new, indestructible torso module (Torso-9000), but his head is mixed up with an evil dummy's head, leading to the birth of Junkman. Slick and Spin try to free the kidnapped Dr. Zub from Junkman before the villain can extract the knowledge of how to mass-produce the torso.

Release Date1993-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Shnookums and Meat!

This show involves a cat named Shnookums and a dog named Meat who do not get along very well.

Release Date1993-10-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Mr. Gloom

Think your life is terrible? Wait until it ends. God has a sense of humor after all--but you won't like it, when He finally gets tired of putting up with your nonsense. Bill Kopp's award winning short animation from Calarts, 1983

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Tex Tinstar: The Best in the West

The cowboy Tex Tinstar, his horse Here Boy, and Tex's friends Smelly Deputy Chafe, Percy Lacedaisy, and Floyd the Insane Rattlesnake who always get into trouble when pursuing a group of outlaws called the Wrong Riders.

Release Date1995-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Pith Possum: Super Dynamic Possum of Tomorrow

The superhero Pith Possum and his sidekick Obediah the Wonder Raccoon fighting crime in Possum City when called by the gorilla Commissioner Stress and the monkey Lieutenant Tension

Release Date1995-01-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Dumb Bunny & Jackass: Ghost A-Go-Go!

Release Date2023-10-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Observational Hazard

Bill Kopp's Student Academy Award-winning animated short film from Calarts, 1984

Release Date1984-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Lunar Jim

Lunar Jim is an animated preschool-oriented stop-motion television show produced in Canada by Halifax Film and Alliance Atlantis, and aired in the USA as well on Discovery Channel and V-Me from 2005-2012. The show is based on an original concept created by Alexander Bar. Season 1 was Executive Produced by Jeff Rosen. It was script-edited in Season one by Peter Sauder. Season two was helmed by award-winning veteran producer/writer Jed MacKay. Ben Zelkowizc provided the voice of Jim. Jim and his team; Rover the Robot Dog, Ripple the Super Space Mechanic, Eco the Farmer, and TED, the Technical Equipment Device, live on Blue Moon L22, the second-to-last moon on the edge of the Milky Way. Focusing on exploration and inquiry, Lunar Jim intends to promote such life skills as problem-solving, persistence, creativity, and cooperation, with an emphasis on "pre-science skills". His rallying cry is "Let's get lunar!"

Release Date2016-01-01

Episode Count92

Vote Count9

Incredible Crash Dummies

Release Date2004-02-07

Episode Count30