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    2018-10-04

    1947-11-1778 years, 11 months, and 20 days old

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    Place of birth:

    McMinnville, Oregon, USA

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Male

    Biography

    Award-winning co-director of "Closed Mondays", the first Claymation (tm) film. Will Vinton was born on November 17, 1947 in McMinnville, Oregon, USA as William Gale Vinton. He was a producer and director, known for Claymation Easter (1992), Martin the Cobbler (1977) and Moonwalker (1988). He was married to Gillian Allred and Susan Shadburne. He was a Claymation artist who coined the term. His studio created numerous Claymation characters for ads, most notably the California Raisins, which gained fame in an ad set to the Motown hit "I Heard It Through the Grapevine". He died on October 4, 2018 in Portland, Oregon.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 7

    Title
    Remembering Return to Oz
    Self
    0
    2021-11-19
    0.9788
    The Adventures of Mark Twain
    Dan'l Webster (voice)
    6.7
    1985-03-01
    1.7182
    Adventures in Plymptoons!
    Self
    2
    2011-05-30
    0.7933
    Animation Outlaws
    Self
    6.3
    2019-09-27
    0.7804
    Claydream
    Self (archive footage)
    6.8
    2022-08-05
    1.2091
    Prisoners of Gravity
    Self
    5.9
    1989-08-21
    11.5543
    LIGHT & MAGIC
    Self (archive footage)
    7.905
    2022-07-27
    8.2164
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