Will Vinton
Will Vinton
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.
Place of birth
McMinnville, Oregon, USA 
Date of birth
17th November 1947
Date of death
4th October 2018
Movies that starred Will Vinton (1 in total)
Remembering Return to Oz [2021]
Self
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