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William Joyce is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Production Design and Visual Development American born on 11 december 1957 at Shreveport (USA)

William Joyce

William Joyce
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Birth name William Edward Joyce
Nationality USA
Birth 11 december 1957 (66 years) at Shreveport (USA)
Awards Daytime Emmy Award

William Edward Joyce (born December 11, 1957) is an American author, illustrator, and filmmaker. His illustrations appeared on numerous New Yorker covers and his paintings are displayed at museums and art galleries. Joyce won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film with Brandon Oldenburg.

Best films

Toy Story
Toy Story
(1995)
(Concept Artist) A Bug's Life
A Bug's Life
(1998)
(Visual Development) Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians
(2012)
(Novel) Epic
Epic
(2013)
(Scriptwriter) Robots
Robots
(2005)
(Producer) Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons
(2007)
(Book)

Usually with

Andrew Stanton
Andrew Stanton
(2 films)
John Lasseter
John Lasseter
(3 films)
Boris Rehlinger
Boris Rehlinger
(3 films)
David Randall Thom
David Randall Thom
(2 films)
Chris Wedge
Chris Wedge
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of William Joyce (10 films)

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Actor

The Parallax View
The Parallax View (1974)
, 1h42
Directed by Alan J. Pakula
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films, Dystopian films
Actors Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, William Daniels, Paula Prentiss, Jim Davis, Earl Hindman
Rating70% 3.5476253.5476253.5476253.5476253.547625
TV newswoman Lee Carter (Paula Prentiss) is one of many witnesses to the public assassination of presidential candidate Senator Charles Carroll (Bill Joyce) atop the Seattle Space Needle. A waiter armed with a revolver is chased but falls to his death. Meanwhile, a second waiter, also armed, leaves the crime scene unnoticed. A Congressional special committee determines that the assassination was the work of a lone gunman.

Director

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2012)
, 15minutes
Directed by William Joyce
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about writers
Rating77% 3.89453.89453.89453.89453.8945
Morris Lessmore sits on a balcony in the French Quarter of New Orleans writing a memoir. Suddenly a storm strikes, blowing Morris’s writing out of his book and blowing him off the balcony. While Morris frantically grabs for his book, the storm blows away the buildings.

Scriptwriter

Epic
Epic (2013)
, 1h42
Directed by Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Johnny Knoxville
Rating65% 3.2987653.2987653.2987653.2987653.298765
17-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest Bomba lives near from evil creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake. An independent young soldier named Nod decides to quit much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin.
Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
, 1h37
Directed by Peter A. Ramsey
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Christmas films, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Les fées, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Santa Claus in film
Actors Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Jude Law
Roles Novel
Rating72% 3.6032253.6032253.6032253.6032253.603225
Jack Frost is awakened from the depths of a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon discovering no one can see or hear him however, he wanders off alone. Three hundred years later Jack, as the spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they do not believe in him and still cannot see him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North (Santa Claus) that Pitch Black, the Boogeyman, is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny), the Sandman/Sandy, and Tooth, the Toothfairy, to arms. They are then told that Jack Frost has been selected to be a new Guardian. Jack is unimpressed by this position, as he feels wronged for not being believed in, but North convinces him to aid them in facing Pitch.
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore
The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore (2012)
, 15minutes
Directed by William Joyce
Origin USA
Genres Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about writers
Roles Writer
Rating77% 3.89453.89453.89453.89453.8945
Morris Lessmore sits on a balcony in the French Quarter of New Orleans writing a memoir. Suddenly a storm strikes, blowing Morris’s writing out of his book and blowing him off the balcony. While Morris frantically grabs for his book, the storm blows away the buildings.
Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
, 1h30
Directed by Stephen J. Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jordan Fry, Harland Williams, Julia Winter, Tom Kenny, Wesley Singerman, Stephen J. Anderson
Roles Book
Rating68% 3.401153.401153.401153.401153.40115
Lewis is an aspiring young inventor at an orphanage whose inventions have been scaring off potential parents. He decides that his mother, who abandoned him at the orphanage as an infant, is the only one who ever truly loved him and works on a machine to scan his memory to locate her. Taking his memory scanner to his school's science fair, Lewis meets Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy claiming to be a time cop from the future. Wilbur needs to recover a time machine that a man wearing a bowler hat has stolen. Lewis tries to demonstrate the scanner, but it falls apart, throwing the science fair into chaos. Upset, Lewis leaves while the Bowler Hat Guy, with the help of a robotic bowler hat named Doris, repairs and steals the scanner.
Buddy
Buddy (1997)
, 1h24
Directed by Caroline Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about apes
Actors Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Paul Reubens, John Aylward
Roles Screenstory
Rating48% 2.4043852.4043852.4043852.4043852.404385
Millionaire animal lover and overall spoiled rich girl Trudy (Rene Russo) adds Buddy, a gorilla, to her family. Buddy finds life in the city very difficult to deal with. Although Trudy raises him as her own son in her mansion (which also houses a few comical chimpanzees, a kitten, a horse, a cheeky, talking green parrot, her prize-winning champion pack of Briards, a raccoon and a flock of geese), he becomes hard to control due to his strength. A particularly bad experience in the Chicago World's Fair makes things even harder for Buddy. After he goes on an aggressive rampage and nearly destroys Trudy's home, Buddy is taken to an ape sanctuary to live among his own kind in peace.

Producer

Epic
Epic (2013)
, 1h42
Directed by Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Johnny Knoxville
Roles Executive Producer
Rating65% 3.2987653.2987653.2987653.2987653.298765
17-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest Bomba lives near from evil creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake. An independent young soldier named Nod decides to quit much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin.
Rise of the Guardians
Rise of the Guardians (2012)
, 1h37
Directed by Peter A. Ramsey
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about magic and magicians, Christmas films, Mise en scène d'un lapin ou d'un lièvre, Les fées, Children's films, Mise en scène d'un mammifère, Santa Claus in film
Actors Chris Pine, Alec Baldwin, Hugh Jackman, Will Arnett, Isla Fisher, Jude Law
Roles Executive producer
Rating72% 3.6032253.6032253.6032253.6032253.603225
Jack Frost is awakened from the depths of a frozen pond with amnesia. Upon discovering no one can see or hear him however, he wanders off alone. Three hundred years later Jack, as the spirit of Winter, enjoys delivering snow days to school kids, but resents that they do not believe in him and still cannot see him. At the North Pole, the Man in the Moon warns Nicholas St. North (Santa Claus) that Pitch Black, the Boogeyman, is threatening the children of the world with his nightmares. He calls E. Aster Bunnymund (the Easter Bunny), the Sandman/Sandy, and Tooth, the Toothfairy, to arms. They are then told that Jack Frost has been selected to be a new Guardian. Jack is unimpressed by this position, as he feels wronged for not being believed in, but North convinces him to aid them in facing Pitch.
Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons (2007)
, 1h30
Directed by Stephen J. Anderson
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about families, Time travel films, Films set in the future, Musical films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jordan Fry, Harland Williams, Julia Winter, Tom Kenny, Wesley Singerman, Stephen J. Anderson
Roles Executive Producer
Rating68% 3.401153.401153.401153.401153.40115
Lewis is an aspiring young inventor at an orphanage whose inventions have been scaring off potential parents. He decides that his mother, who abandoned him at the orphanage as an infant, is the only one who ever truly loved him and works on a machine to scan his memory to locate her. Taking his memory scanner to his school's science fair, Lewis meets Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy claiming to be a time cop from the future. Wilbur needs to recover a time machine that a man wearing a bowler hat has stolen. Lewis tries to demonstrate the scanner, but it falls apart, throwing the science fair into chaos. Upset, Lewis leaves while the Bowler Hat Guy, with the help of a robotic bowler hat named Doris, repairs and steals the scanner.
Robots
Robots (2005)
, 1h31
Directed by Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Robot films
Actors Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes
Roles Producer
Rating64% 3.2007353.2007353.2007353.2007353.200735
In Rivet Town, Herb Copperbottom, a dishwasher at Gunk's Greasy Spoon diner, races through the streets, elated that he is going to be a father. He and his wife, Lydia, after 12 hours of "labor", construct the baby. He is named Rodney, and he becomes a young inventor who dreams of making the world a better place. Rodney idolizes Bigweld, a master inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries. During Rodney's adolescence, he invents a gadget, "Wonderbot", intended to help his father clean the dishes at the restaurant. When Herb's supervisor unexpectedly confronts them, Wonderbot breaks dishes, causing Herb to be put in debt and Rodney to be dismissed. Rodney takes his invention to Robot City to see Bigweld and get a job as an inventor at Bigweld Industries, so that he can help his father pay back his supervisor. His father encourages him and confides that he has always regretted not pursuing his dream of becoming a musician. Rodney arrives in Robot City and meets Fender, a ramshackle robot who takes souvenir photos and sells maps to the stars' homes. After a spectacular but harrowing ride on the crosstown express, Rodney arrives at the gate of Bigweld Industries.
Buddy
Buddy (1997)
, 1h24
Directed by Caroline Thompson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Documentary, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about apes
Actors Rene Russo, Robbie Coltrane, Alan Cumming, Irma P. Hall, Paul Reubens, John Aylward
Roles Co-Producer
Rating48% 2.4043852.4043852.4043852.4043852.404385
Millionaire animal lover and overall spoiled rich girl Trudy (Rene Russo) adds Buddy, a gorilla, to her family. Buddy finds life in the city very difficult to deal with. Although Trudy raises him as her own son in her mansion (which also houses a few comical chimpanzees, a kitten, a horse, a cheeky, talking green parrot, her prize-winning champion pack of Briards, a raccoon and a flock of geese), he becomes hard to control due to his strength. A particularly bad experience in the Chicago World's Fair makes things even harder for Buddy. After he goes on an aggressive rampage and nearly destroys Trudy's home, Buddy is taken to an ape sanctuary to live among his own kind in peace.

Art

Epic
Epic (2013)
, 1h42
Directed by Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Fantasy, Adventure, Animation
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Children's films
Actors Colin Farrell, Josh Hutcherson, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Aziz Ansari, Johnny Knoxville
Roles Production Design
Rating65% 3.2987653.2987653.2987653.2987653.298765
17-year-old Mary Katherine, or M.K., moves in with her eccentric scientist father Professor Bomba who has been searching for tiny humanoid soldiers called Leafmen. They protect the forest Bomba lives near from evil creatures called Boggans and their malevolent leader Mandrake. An independent young soldier named Nod decides to quit much to the ire of the no-nonsense Leafmen leader Ronin.
Robots
Robots (2005)
, 1h31
Directed by Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Animation, Comic science fiction
Themes Comedy science fiction films, Films set in the future, Robot films
Actors Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes
Roles Production Design
Rating64% 3.2007353.2007353.2007353.2007353.200735
In Rivet Town, Herb Copperbottom, a dishwasher at Gunk's Greasy Spoon diner, races through the streets, elated that he is going to be a father. He and his wife, Lydia, after 12 hours of "labor", construct the baby. He is named Rodney, and he becomes a young inventor who dreams of making the world a better place. Rodney idolizes Bigweld, a master inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries. During Rodney's adolescence, he invents a gadget, "Wonderbot", intended to help his father clean the dishes at the restaurant. When Herb's supervisor unexpectedly confronts them, Wonderbot breaks dishes, causing Herb to be put in debt and Rodney to be dismissed. Rodney takes his invention to Robot City to see Bigweld and get a job as an inventor at Bigweld Industries, so that he can help his father pay back his supervisor. His father encourages him and confides that he has always regretted not pursuing his dream of becoming a musician. Rodney arrives in Robot City and meets Fender, a ramshackle robot who takes souvenir photos and sells maps to the stars' homes. After a spectacular but harrowing ride on the crosstown express, Rodney arrives at the gate of Bigweld Industries.