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Born | Timothy Joseph Hill May 21, 1958 Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
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Years active | 1991–present |
Spouse | Veronica Alicino (m. 1997) |
Relatives | George Roy Hill (uncle) |
Timothy Joseph Hill (born May 21, 1958) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor.
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Hill began his career in the 1990s as a writer and producer for television series such as Rocko's Modern Life (with Stephen Hillenburg and Derek Drymon), Exit 57 , KaBlam! , SpongeBob SquarePants and Kenny the Shark . He also created the KaBlam! skit Action League Now!!
Hill directed the films Muppets from Space (1999), Max Keeble's Big Move (2001), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006), Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007), Hop (2011) And The Real Mr Krabs (2012). Hill was a screenwriter for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He later directed another SpongeBob film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020).
Hill has been married to actress Veronica Alicino, whom he frequently casts in minor roles in his films, since June 24, 1997. He is the nephew of director George Roy Hill. [1]
Film
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Notes |
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1997 | Action League Now!!: Rock-A-Big-Baby | Yes | Yes | Short |
1999 | Muppets from Space | Yes | No | |
2001 | Max Keeble's Big Move | Yes | No | Also songwriter: "MacGoogle's Theme" |
2004 | The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie | No | Yes | Also storyboard artist and story editor |
2006 | Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties | Yes | No | |
2007 | Alvin and the Chipmunks | Yes | No | |
2011 | Hop | Yes | No | |
2020 | The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run | Yes | Yes | Voice of "Documentary Narrator" |
The War with Grandpa [2] | Yes | No | ||
Television
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer | Notes |
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1991 | Make the Grade | No | Yes | No | 1 episode |
1991–93 | Welcome Freshmen | Yes | Yes | Executive | 16 episodes (director); 43 episodes (writer) |
1994–96 | Rocko's Modern Life | No | Yes | No | 27 episodes (writer); 13 episodes (story editor) |
1995–96 | Exit 57 | Yes | No | No | 6 episodes |
1996–2000 | KaBlam! | Yes | Yes | Yes | 21 episodes (director); 18 episodes (writer); 30 episodes (producer) |
1999; 2005–07 | SpongeBob SquarePants | No | Yes | No | 18 episodes; Also developer and story editor |
2000 | The War Next Door | No | Yes | No | Episode "Father Knows Death" |
2001 | Action League Now! | Yes | Yes | Yes | Episode "The Chief: Look Back in Anger" |
2001–02 | 100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd | No | Yes | Supervising | 4 episodes |
2003–06 | Kenny the Shark | No | Yes | No | 3 episodes |
2004 | Whoopi's Littleburg [3] | Yes | No | No | 2 episodes |
2014 | Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever [4] | Yes | Yes | No | TV movie |
2017 | Michael Jackson's Halloween | No | Yes | No | TV short |
Year | Award | Category | Film | Result [5] |
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1995 | CableACE Award | Best Comedy Series Shared with Cindy Caponera, Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, John C. Fisher, Joe Forristal, Nancy Geller, Jodi Lennon, Mitch Rouse & Amy Sedaris | Exit 57 | Nominated |
2006 | Annie Award | Best Writing in an Animated Television Production Shared with Mike Bell, C.H. Greenblatt & Paul Tibbitt | SpongeBob SquarePants | Won |
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Mark Randolph Osborne is an American film director, writer, producer and animator.
The fourth season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by former marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon from May 6, 2005, to July 24, 2007, and contained 20 half-hour episodes. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. The season was executive produced by series creator Hillenburg, while writer Paul Tibbitt acted as the supervising producer and showrunner. The show underwent a hiatus on television as Hillenburg halted the production in 2002 to work on the film adaptation of the series, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie. Once the film was finalized and the previous season had completed broadcast on television, Hillenburg wanted to end the show, but the success of the series led to more episodes, so Tibbitt took over Hillenburg's position as showrunner and began working on a fourth season for broadcast in 2005. Hillenburg remained with the show, but in a smaller advisory role in which he reviewed each episode and offered suggestions to the show's production crew.
"Help Wanted" is the premiere and pilot episode of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants. It first aired on Nickelodeon in the United States on May 1, 1999, following the television broadcast of the 1999 Kids' Choice Awards. The episode follows the series' eponymous protagonist SpongeBob, a yellow anthropomorphic sea sponge, attempting to get a job at a local fast food restaurant called the Krusty Krab.
The tenth season of the American animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist and animator Stephen Hillenburg, aired on Nickelodeon in the United States from October 15, 2016, to December 2, 2017. The series chronicles the exploits and adventures of the title character and his various friends in the fictional underwater city of Bikini Bottom. This season, which opened with "Whirly Brains" and finished airing with "The Incredible Shrinking Sponge", is the shortest in the show's history, containing 11 half-hours only instead of the usual length of 26.
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Events in 1960 in animation.
Kent Matthew Osborne is an American screenwriter, actor, animator, producer, and director. He has worked for such animated television shows as SpongeBob SquarePants, Camp Lazlo, Phineas and Ferb, The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Adventure Time, Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball, he has received multiple Emmy Award nominations and has won twice for Adventure Time. He is currently the head writer for the Cartoon Network animated series Summer Camp Island, which premiered in 2018, and is also co-producer and story editor for the Disney Channel animated series Kiff. He has also starred in several mumblecore films, including Hannah Takes the Stairs, Nights and Weekends, All the Light in the Sky and Uncle Kent. His brother is the director Mark Osborne. Osborne had replaced Walt Dohrn as a storyboard director and writer after Dohrn left SpongeBob to work on more DreamWorks films in 2002.
Events in 1961 in animation.
Events in 1964 in animation.
John Andrew Overtoom is an American animation director, writer, photographer, and cinematographer. Recent credits include Nickelodeon’s The Patrick Star Show as well as the animated feature film The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run, where he served as CG animation director and head of character animation. He was supervising animation director on the Cartoon Network series Clarence, as well as Disney XD’s animated television series Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer where he was a writer and animation supervisor. In 1999, after two years as an animation timer on The Angry Beavers, Overtoom was hired as an animation director on the Nickelodeon animated television series SpongeBob SquarePants, for which he was nominated for Emmy Awards in 2004, 2007 and 2011. My Life with Morrissey is Overtoom's first award-winning live action feature as a writer/director/cinematographer and is distributed by MVD. Other credits include Family Guy and American Dad for Fox TV, and Phineas and Ferb and Dave the Barbarian for Disney.
Events in 1970 in animation.
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