Bruce Timm
| Bruce Timm | |
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| Born | Bruce Walter Timm February 5, 1961 Oklahoma, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Artist, animator, writer, producer, director |
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Notable works
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Batman: The Animated Series Batman: Mask of the Phantasm Superman: The Animated Series Batman Beyond Justice League Justice League Unlimited Green Lantern: The Animated Series Freakazoid! Justice League: Gods and Monsters Justice League: Gods and Monsters Chronicles All Star Superman |
Bruce Walter Timm (born February 5, 1961) is an American artist, character designer, animator, writer, producer and actor. He is best known for his contributions building the modern DC Comics animated franchise, the DC animated universe.
Timm was born on February 5, 1961, in Oklahoma, the third of four children. His father was an engineer and his mother worked for the phone company. Timm's family first moved to Ohio when Timm was two years old, and then to California when Timm was five or six.
Timm's early career in animation was varied; he started at Filmation, working on the layout of Blackstar, Flash Gordon, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe and its spin-off She-Ra: Princess of Power, and The Lone Ranger (Timm also did background work on G.I. Joe). He also worked for numerous other employers, including Ralph Bakshi, Don Bluth Productions, and attempted to find work at Marvel Comics and DC Comics, but without luck. In 1988 he worked at DiC on The Real Ghostbusters for one season, then joined Warner Bros. in 1989. At Warner, Timm worked on Tiny Toon Adventures.
However, Timm is best known for his subsequent work on the animated series based on various DC Comics superheroes, popularly referred to as the "DCAU" (DC animated universe). Along with his Tiny Toons partner Eric Radomski, Timm co-created and produced Batman: The Animated Series, which premiered on September 5, 1992, and went on to co-create and produce Superman: The Animated Series (premiered in September 1996), The New Batman Adventures (premiered in September 1997), and Batman Beyond (premiered in January 1999) and Static Shock which premiered at 2000. He also served as producer on the feature-length Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker before taking the helm as creator and producer of the animated version of Justice League, which debuted in November 2001; the series continued in the form of Justice League Unlimited. Timm was also the producer and co-director of the direct-to-video Superman Doomsday. Because of a mistake in the first season end credits of Teen Titans animated series, Timm is often mistaken for an executive producer, despite having very little to do with the production.
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