Years active 1981-present Name Bill Kopp | Role Director | |
Born April 17, 1962 (age 62) ( 1962-04-17 ) Rockford, Illinois, United States Occupation Animator, film and voice director, voice actor, writer Nominations Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in An Animated Program Movies and TV shows Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars, Tom and Jerry: The Fast and t, Eek! The Cat, Mad Jack the Pirate, The Shnookums and Meat Similar People Savage Steve Holland, Jess Harnell, Jeff Bennett, Charlie Adler, Kathryn Fiore | ||
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Bill Kopp (born April 17, 1962 in Rockford, Illinois) is an American actor, director, animator, voice actor, and writer.
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Career
He studied animation at the California Institute of the Arts. 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.
Kopp 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 Tracey Ullman Show "The Simpsons" shorts, but left after a season.
He 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 Tales from the Crypt's series finale "The Third Pig".
He is also the director of most of The Twisted Whiskers Show episodes.