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 ...
Complete Filmography
Ralph Breaks the Internet
2018
Story
Video game bad guy Ralph and fellow misfit Vanellope von Schweetz must risk it all by traveling to the World Wide Web in search of a replacement part ...
Zootopia
2016
Story
Determined to prove herself, Officer Judy Hopps, the first bunny on Zootopia's police force, jumps at the chance to crack her first case - even if it ...
Feast
2014
Other
This Oscar-winning animated short film tells the story of one man's love life as seen through the eyes of his best friend and dog, Winston, and reveal...
Wreck-It Ralph
2012
Story Supervisor, Story
Wreck-It Ralph is the 9-foot-tall, 643-pound villain of an arcade video game named Fix-It Felix Jr., in which the game's titular hero fixes buildings ...
WALL·E
2008
Screenplay
What if mankind had to leave Earth and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of years doing what he was built for, WALL•E discove...
The Simpsons - Kiss and Tell: The Story of Their Love
2006
Director
Just in time for Valentine's Day, this special collection features four “romantically-themed,” hysterical episodes from America's #1 TV family.
The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror
2003
Director
Includes the following episodes from the Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror V, Treehouse of Horror VI, Treehouse of Horror VII, and Treehouse of Horror XII...
The Butter Battle Book
1989
Storyboard Artist
The Zooks and the Yooks are at war over the butter and bread - on which side should one spread?
Christmas in Tattertown
1988
Writer
Christmas in Tattertown is a 1988 television special created and directed by Ralph Bakshi about a place where everything discarded in the world came a...
A Story
1987
Thanks
A young boy named Melvin and a purple television dinosaur named Ted have happy adventures that lead them into the clutches of Randy the Killer Clown a...
Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown
1986
Director, Animation, Writer
Charlie Brown is on the run from the Peanuts Gang after the Great Pumpkin puts a bounty on his head in this wild animated student short by Jim Reardon...
Somewhere in the Arctic...
1986
Thanks
A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Ouchless
1986
Director
Calarts Short