Bill Kopp

Bill Kopp

Born: April 17, 1962
in Rockford, Illinois
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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.

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Movies for Bill Kopp...

Title: Amphibia
Character: Marnie (voice)
Released: June 17, 2019
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Lunar Jim
Released: January 1, 2016
Type: TV
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!"
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Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry
Title: Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry
Character: Tom / Frank (voice)
Released: October 11, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!
Title: Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!
Character: Tom / Press Guy #1 (voice)
Released: January 18, 2005
Type: Movie
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.
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Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!: Blasting Off
Title: Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!: Blasting Off
Character: Himself
Released: January 18, 2005
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Tom and Jerry Blast Off to Mars!
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Title: Incredible Crash Dummies
Released: February 7, 2004
Type: TV
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Title: Mad Jack the Pirate
Released: September 12, 1998
Type: TV
Mad Jack the Pirate is a short lived 1990s cartoon. The show was created by Bill Kopp and was directed by Jeff DeGrandis. On American television, the show was broadcast on Fox Kids. The concept is of 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. On July 23, 2001, Mad Jack and other properties of Saban Entertainment were sold to The Walt Disney Company.
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Title: Toonsylvania
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: TV
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.
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Yuckie Duck: I'm On My Way
Title: Yuckie Duck: I'm On My Way
Character: Yuckie Duck
Released: August 6, 1995
Type: Movie
Yuckie Duck works as a paramedic but does more harm than good to his patients.
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Yuckie Duck: Short Orders
Title: Yuckie Duck: Short Orders
Character: Yuckie Duck
Released: March 5, 1995
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: What a Cartoon
Character: Yuckie Duck (voice)
Released: February 20, 1995
Type: TV
Various original cartoons by some of today's top animators.
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Title: The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
Released: January 2, 1995
Type: TV
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.
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Title: Eek! The Cat
Character: Eek / Pierre / Day Z. Kutter (voice)
Released: September 11, 1992
Type: TV
Eek! The Cat is a Canadian-American animated series, created by Savage Steve Holland and Bill Kopp and produced by Fox Kids and Savage Studios with animation by Nelvana, that ran from 1992 to 1997.