Director

Jim Reardon

Writing

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Directed movies: 2Directed series: 1All crew credits: 13

TMDB ID: 15020

IMDb ID: nm0714114

Known for: Writing

Born: June 9, 1965

Age: 60

Place of birth: Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1986 - 2018

Years active: 33

Average TMDB rating: 7.25

Wikidata: Q1689199

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Biography

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.