Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1947-11-17
Place of Birth
McMinnville, Oregon, USA
Will Vinton
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.
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as Producer
as Director
as Executive Producer
as Executive Producer
as Animation Director
as Director
as Self (archive footage)
as Director
as Executive Producer
as Director
as Producer
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Director
as Producer
Raisins Sold Out: The California Raisins II
as Director
as Director
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