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Jim Reardon
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
Jim Reardon is an American screenwriter, director and animator. While at Cal Arts in 1986, Reardon first made a student film, Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown. The film became a…
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Jim Reardon is an American screenwriter, director and animator. While at Cal Arts in 1986, Reardon first made a student film, Bring Me The Head of Charlie Brown. The film became a cult classic and gained revived interest through YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on the 1987-88 cartoon series Mighty Mouse—The New Adventures. Afterwards, he wrote many episodes for the first season of Tiny Toon Adventures. In 1990 he was hired as an animation director for The Simpsons and he has served as supervising director on the series for many years. He left the staff to work on the Pixar film, WALL-E, and has also worked at Walt Disney Animation Studios on films such as Wreck-It Ralph and Zootopia which were directed by other fellow Simpsons alumni Rich Moore.
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2018
Ralph Breaks the Internet
Movie Story
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2016
Finding Dory
Movie Thanks
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2016
Zootopia
Movie Story
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2014
Feast
Movie Other
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2012
Wreck-It Ralph
Movie Story Supervisor
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2008
WALL·E
Movie Screenplay
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2006
The Simpsons - Kiss and Tell: The Story of Their Love
Movie Director
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2003
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
Movie Director
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1990
Tiny Toon Adventures
TV show Writer
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1989
The Simpsons
TV show Director
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1989
The Butter Battle Book
Movie Storyboard Artist
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1988
Christmas in Tattertown
Movie Writer
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1987
A Story
Movie Thanks
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1986
Somewhere in the Arctic...
Movie Thanks
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1985
Ouchless
Movie Director
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Untitled Jack and the Beanstalk Film
Movie Story
