Will Vinton
Known for Directing
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Birthday: November 17, 1947
Deathday: October 04, 2018
Place of birth: McMinnville, Oregon, USA
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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