Bill Kopp

{{Short description|American animator, writer and voice actor}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=June 2021}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2021}} }} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox person | name = Bill Kopp | birth_name = William Kopp | birth_date =  | birth_place = Rockford, Illinois, U.S. | occupation = {{hlist|Animator|writer|voice actor}} | years_active = 1981–present }} '''William Kopp''' is an American animator, writer and voice actor.

==Career== 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''.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130921063007/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/97880/Bill-Kopp The New York Times]</ref>

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.

==Filmography==

===Film=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes |- |rowspan="2"| 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)<ref>{{cite web | url=http://toontownantics.blogspot.com/2014/01/alexs-interview-with-bill-kopp.html | title=Toontown Antics – Roger Rabbit's adventures in real and animated life: Alex's interview with Bill Kopp! | date=January 25, 2014 }}</ref> |- |rowspan="2"| 2005 | ''Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars'' | Tom, Jerry, 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=== {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Film ! Role ! Notes |- | 1987 | ''The Tracey Ullman Show'' | | 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 & Meat Funny Cartoon Show'' |Polite Coyote<ref name="kopp">{{cite web|last=Reboy|first=Judith|year=1995|title=Bill Kopp on The Record|url=http://eek-the-cat.com/interviews/billkopp.htm|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060629054803/http://eek-the-cat.com/interviews/billkopp.htm|archive-date=June 29, 2006|access-date=May 1, 2011|work=Animato! #33|page=60}}</ref> | 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" |- | rowspan="2" | 1998–1999 | ''Toonsylvania'' | | creator writer executive producer voice director |- | ''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" |- |- |rowspan="2"| 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 |- | 2012 | ''1001 Nights'' | | writer Episode 2.2a: "Bandits of Basra" |- | 2015 | ''Wabbit'' | | writer 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'' | Marnie | Episode 1.16: "Bizarre Bazaar" |}

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * {{IMDb name|0465827}}

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