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.The New York Times
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 Year Film Role Notes 1985 Jac Mac and Rad Boy Go! Rad Boy Better Off Dead animator 1986 One Crazy Summer character designeranimation supervisorchief animator 1989 Tummy Trouble storyanimator 1990 Roller Coaster Rabbit storyanimator1993Trail Mix-Upstory (uncredited) 2005 Tom and Jerry: Blast Off to Mars Tom, Jerry, Press Guy #1 writerdirectorvoice directorvoice actor Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry Tom, Frank writerdirectorvoice directorvoice actor
Television 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 creatorwriternarratorsupervising producervoice actor1994The Baby Huey Showcreative director 1995 The Shnookums & Meat Funny Cartoon ShowPolite Coyote creatorwriterproducervoice director voice actor 1995–1997 The What-a-Cartoon! Show Yuckie Duck voice actor 1996 Tales from the Crypt writerdirectoranimation directorcharacter designerstoryboard artistEpisode 7.13: "The Third Pig" 1998–1999 Toonsylvania creatorwriterexecutive producervoice director Mad Jack the Pirate Mad Jack creatorwriterexecutive producercasting directorvoice directorvoice actor 2001 Capertown Cops writer 2002 House of Mouse writerEpisode 3.10: "Humphrey in the House" 2010 'Til Death Dolphin, Whale Episode 4.21: "The Wedding" The Twisted Whiskers Show Mister Mewser, Jack writerdirectorvoice actor 2011 Dan Vs. Additional Voices director 2012 1001 Nights writerEpisode 2.2a: "Bandits of Basra" 2015 Wabbit writerEpisode 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"
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