Bill Kopp

Bill Kopp
Born	(1962-04-17) April 17, 1962 Rockford, Illinois, United States
Occupation	Animator, film and voice director, voice actor, writer
Years active	1981-present

Bill Kopp (born in Rockford, Illinois on April 17, 1962) is an American actor director, animator, voice actor, and writer 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 Tales from the Crypt's series finale 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.

In 2013, Kopp announced on his Facebook page that he will be rebooting the Woody Woodpecker franchise for Universal Pictures.

Filmography

Film

Year	Film	Role	Notes
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		animator
1990	Roller Coaster Rabbit		animator
2005	Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars	Tom, Press Guy #1	writer director
	Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry	Tom, Frank	writer director voice director
TBA	Woody Woodpecker		director

Television

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1987	The Tracey Ullman Show		animator
1991-1994	Taz-Mania		writer
1992-1997	Eek! The Cat	Eek, Pierre	creator supervising producer
1995	The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show		creator voice director
1995-1997	The What-A-Cartoon! Show	Yuckie Duck	voice actor
1994	The Baby Huey Show		creative consultant
1996	Tales from the Crypt	animation director	writer director animation director character designer storyboard artist Episode 7.13: "The Third Pig"
1998	Toonsylvania		creator executive producer voice director
1998-1999	Mad Jack the Pirate	Mad Jack	creator casting director voice director
2002	House of Mouse		writer Episode 3.10: "Humphrey in the House"
2010	'Til Death	Dolphin, Whale	Episode 4.21: "The Wedding"
	The Twisted Whiskers Show	Mister Mewser, Jack	director
2011	Dan Vs.	Additional Voices	director
2015	Wabbit		writer

External links

• Bill Kopp at the Internet Movie Database