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The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

2004

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There's trouble brewing in Bikini Bottom. Someone has stolen King Neptune's crown, and it looks like Mr. Krab, SpongeBob's boss, is the culprit. Though he's just been passed over for the promotion of his dreams, SpongeBob stands by his boss, and along with his best pal Patrick, sets out on a treacherous mission to Shell City to reclaim the crown and save Mr. Krab's life.

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Alan Smart

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Alan Smart (born October 10, 1963) is a retired animator and animation director best known for his work as the supervising director on SpongeBob SquarePants, which he has been involved with since the pilot, and as assistant director and layout artist on the Simpsons (he has also received credit as a director in the season three episode, "Flaming Moe's"). He has done animation for the Nicktoons CatDog, Hey Arnold, Rocko's Modern Life, Ren and Stimpy, and Sanjay and Craig and on five animated films: The Little Mermaid, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Oliver & Company and The Chipmunk Adventure. Alan Smart also worked on the pilot episode of Family Dog, as an animation director on Clone High and the first season of Rugrats.

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Tuck Tucker

Director · Known for Hey Arnold!

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Osborne "Tuck" Tucker III (August 20, 1961 - December 22, 2020) was an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, songwriter, and director who worked on Hey Arnold! and SpongeBob SquarePants. He directed Hey Arnold!: The Movie in 2002. Tucker was born in Lynchburg, Virginia. He attended Virginia Episcopal School and Virginia Commonwealth University. He would spend most of his time at home watching cartoons with his father and cites these experiences as being very special to him. He married Connie Dyste in 1990 and had one daughter, Gina Tucker. The family resided in La Cañada Flintridge. Connie Tucker died of a rare cancer in 2015 and Tucker moved home to Virginia to teach art to students at Longwood University. While in animation class, his instructor moved him to Los Angeles after graduation for work at Disney to work on the films like The Little Mermaid as his first animation job. Afterwards, he left to work on shows like The Simpsons from Fox, and then going to Nickelodeon while switching from storyboard work on Rugrats and Aaahh!!! Real Monsters to directing on Hey Arnold!. After that, he moved on to SpongeBob SquarePants. He went from being a storyboard artist on The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie to being a writer and storyboard director, and then a supervising storyboard director. During his time on SpongeBob, he won the 38th Annual Annie Award in 2011 for Best Music in a Television Production alongside Jeremy Wakefield, Sage Guyton, and Nick Carr. Afterwards, he went to direct on The Fairly OddParents during its ninth season. In January 2015, Tucker began teaching graphic and animation design at Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Tucker died in Lynchburg on December 22, 2020, at age 59. His cause of death was not publicly disclosed.

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Casey Alexander

Director · Writer · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants, Uncle Grandpa

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Casey Raymond Alexander (born September 12, 1958) is an American cartoonist, animator, storyboard artist, writer, director, and producer known for his work on SpongeBob SquarePants, Uncle Grandpa, Billy Dilley's Super-Duper Subterranean Summer, and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie.

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Bill Fagerbakke

Cast · Known for The Patrick Star Show, Coach, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Bill Fagerbakke was born on October 4, 1957 in Fontana, California, USA as William Mark Fagerbakke. He is an actor, known for The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015), SpongeBob SquarePants (1999) and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004). He has been married to Catherine McClenahan since 1989. They have two children.

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Zeus Cervas

Director · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants

Zeus Cervas was born on 19 September 1974 in Walnut, California, USA. He is a writer, known for SpongeBob SquarePants (1999), Star vs. the Forces of Evil (2012), and The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004).

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Caleb Meurer

Caleb Meurer (born July 9, 1973 in Amherst, New York, USA) is a director and storyboard artist, known for American Dad! (2005), The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) and Charlie and Lola (2005).

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Julia Pistor

Producer · Known for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

Julia Pistor has over twenty years of leadership experience in family entertainment as both a Content Producer and Senior Executive with proven success across disciples and a background that spans feature film, TV, streaming, branded content, and consumer products. A nimble leader, she combines management ability with creative expertise to develop and produce compelling stories and IP in animation and live action, shape and execute strategy, and build collaborative partnerships. Julia is continually inspired by the ever-evolving ways we tell and share stories. As a film producer and executive with the Nickelodeon branded feature film division, Julia identified and produced over fifteen highly successful animated and live-action franchise feature films including The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Rugrats films, Nacho Libre, Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, Charlotte's Web, Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius, Good Burger, and Harriet the Spy. In 2015 Julia joined the flagship Barbie brand, acting as its Chief Content Officer. She played a key role in transforming the $1.5B+ brand into a contemporary, inspirational and highly profitable platform for girls and women including developing and executing a new 360 content strategy that made Barbie the first-ever animated YouTube influencer (driving over 10MM subscribers), a top ranked animated series for Netflix, Dreamhouse Adventures, the brand's first pre-school franchise extension, Dreamtopia, an award winning Hulu documentary, Tiny Shoulders. She also set-up the record breaking live action feature film, Barbie. Julia runs her own production and consulting company. Clients have included will.i.am, HiT Entertainment, Overbrook, Great Wolf Lodge and Cartoon Network where she produced the Emmy and Annie award winning movie Firebreather with Peter Chung. She has recently produced The Magician's Elephant feature film for Netflix Animation Studios. Raised in the American Foreign Service, Julia was born in Africa, lived in India, but spent most of her childhood in London. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, The Producers Guild of America, Women in Animation, and The Television Academy.

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Jeffrey Tambor

Cast · Known for How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Accountant, The Hangover

Jeffrey Michael Tambor (born July 8, 1944) is an American actor and comedian. He is known for his television roles such as Jeffrey Brooks, the uptight neighbor of Stanley and Helen Roper in the TV sitcom The Ropers (1979–1980), as Hank Kingsley on The Larry Sanders Show (1992–1998), George Bluth Sr. and Oscar Bluth on Arrested Development (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and Maura Pfefferman on Transparent (2014–2017). For his role in the latter, Tambor earned two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. In 2015, he was also awarded a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Pfefferman. His film roles include Jay Porter in ...And Justice for All (1979), Jinx Latham in Mr. Mom (1983), Sully in There's Something About Mary (1998), Mayor Augustus Maywho in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Tom Manning in Hellboy (2004) and its sequel Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Sid Garner in The Hangover trilogy (2009–2013), Francis Silverberg in The Accountant (2016), and Georgy Malenkov in The Death of Stalin (2017). Tambor has done voice acting for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004), Monsters vs. Aliens (2009), Tangled (2010), and Trolls (2016). For his voice role in The Lionhearts (1998), he was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award. From 2002 to 2003, he was an announcer for Hollywood Squares.

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Mark Fite

Mark Fite (Mark Elliott Fite, born in Illinois) is an American actor and comedian who grew up mostly in Iowa. He graduated from the University of Iowa with a BA in Communications and Theatre Arts before moving to Los Angeles, where he became a founding member of the comedy group Two Headed Dog and performed with The Actors' Gang and Theater of NOTE. He has been active since 1988 and has appeared in over 100 productions across film, television, and voice work. He was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the Berlin Film Festival International for The Lost One (2015) and won Best Actor at the Block Island Film Festival in 2025 for No Small Sacrifice. His most notable screen roles include Second Man at Auto Shop in Fight Club (1999) (Brad Pitt, Edward Norton), Pilot in Independence Day (1996) (Will Smith, Bill Pullman), Radio Operator in Godzilla (1998) (Matthew Broderick, Jean Reno), James Wilson in David Fincher's Mank (2020) (Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried), and Customer #2 (voice) in The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) (Tom Kenny, Antonio Banderas). On television he has appeared in Seinfeld, Friends, SpongeBob SquarePants (24 episodes), Grey's Anatomy, Criminal Minds, and Scandal. He also appeared in the Dior short film L.A.dy Dior (2011) opposite Marion Cotillard, directed by John Cameron Mitchell.

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The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

2025

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Desperate to be a big guy, SpongeBob sets out to prove his bravery to Mr. Krabs by following The Flying Dutchman – a mysterious swashbuckling ghost pirate – on a seafaring adventure that takes him to the deepest depths of the deep sea, where no Sponge has gone before.

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Arthur Waite

Cast · Known for The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Arthur Waite is a rising young actor quickly making his mark on the industry. He is 11 years old, based out of Los Angeles, CA and represented by The Osbrink Agency. Arthur appears in the feature film THE SPONGEBOB MOVIE: SEARCH FOR SQUAREPANTS and stars in the short film, ANESTHESIA , as "Young Michael". Beyond his on-camera work, Arthur is a seasoned voice actor, voicing "Alex" in Moonbug Entertainment's PAW PATROL: TO THE RESCUE and is a series regular on two new shows premiering this year. His love and natural gift for musical theater landed him a national award for "All Festival Best Individual Performance" at JTF West in 2025, "Best Vocal Soloist" in 2024, and the lead roles of "Bruce" in MATILDA JR, "Charlie" in WONKA JR, and "Donkey" in SHREK JR. He is an incredible actor, vocalist, and dancer...a true triple threat! He's self-driven, has incredible literacy/memorization, and is genuinely happy to be living out his passion! A directors dream!

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Tom Kenny

Cast · Known for The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Powerpuff Girls, Futurama

Thomas James "Tom" Kenny (born July 13, 1962) is an American actor and comedian, known for his long-running-role as SpongeBob SquarePants in the television series of the same name, as well as the live-action character Patchy the Pirate, Gary the Snail and the French narrator based on Jacques Cousteau. His other voice acting roles include the Narrator and Mayor in the Powerpuff Girls, Heffer in Rocko's Modern Life, Dog in CatDog, Ice King in Adventure Time and Spyro in the Spyro the Dragon video game series. Aside from voice acting, Kenny also starred in the short-lived Fox sketch show The Edge and was a cast member of the HBO sketch comedy program Mr. Show, where he worked with Jill Talley, whom he subsequently married. He also hosted Friday Night Videos on NBC for one year in 1983, and Funday Night at the Movies on TCM in 2007.

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Tim Hill

Director · Known for Alvin and the Chipmunks

Tim Hill (born May 31, 1958) is an American film director and television writer. He began his career in 1993 as a writer and storyboard artist for Rocko's Modern Life, he also created the Kablam! skit Action League Now!. He has been active as an episode writer for SpongeBob SquarePants since 1999. Hill directed the live-action family films Muppets from Space, Max Keeble's Big Move, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties, Alvin and the Chipmunks, Hop and Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends: The Movie. He is the nephew of director George Roy Hill. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tim Hill, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Vincent Waller

Executive Producer · Known for SpongeBob SquarePants, The Patrick Star Show, The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Vincent Paul Waller (born September 30, 1960) is an American animator, storyboard artist, writer, and technical director. He has worked on several animated television shows and movies, the most notable of which being The Ren & Stimpy Show and SpongeBob SquarePants.

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Susan Boyajian

As a veteran performer, Susan Boyajian (Groundlings, NYU Tisch School of the Arts) has lent her voice to blockbuster animation features such as Space Jam 2, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and Angry Birds. You may recognize her as Patrick's Mom on SpongeBob SquarePants, Mrs. Nasenpickle on Squirrel Boy, or as the sassy germ, Germama in Kirby Buckets on Disney XD. She can be seen and heard on cartoons, TV commercials, radio spots, and even in your favorite theme parks such as California Adventure. Susan was recently featured on the front page of the New York Times Arts Section heralding her voice talent and casting work with her loop group, Loop Out Loud. She has become the industry go-to for horror creature voices, (both performing and voice directing). Her work is featured in such television shows and films as Freaky, The Conjuring 3, The Haunting of Bly Manor, and Midnight Mass. Though she loves horror, and the challenges it brings, she has been fortunate to work on hundreds of diverse projects, ranging from big budget blockbusters to indie films, features to television, comedy to horror, and everything in between. You may also recognize Susan's work from her numerous TV and Film appearances as Mrs. Robinson in Fresh Off the Boat, the role of Nurse in Ray Donovan, Helena in the Lifetime Movie, Twisted Twin, or as the Casting Director in Our Almost Completely True Story. When she is not in the recording studio, Susan runs her passion project, the Voiceover Connection- a V/O school she co-founded that instructs and guides the next generation of VoiceOver actors.

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Brian A. Miller

Executive Producer · Known for Adventure Time, Clarence, Craig of the Creek

Eleven-time Emmy Award-winning producer of both television and film, Brian Miller served as Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cartoon Network Studios from 2000 to 2021. He opened the doors to the production facility in Burbank, California, in 2000. In this role, Miller oversaw the studio’s production of Cartoon Network original programming for both domestic and international audiences, while also managing the day-to-day operations. Miller was responsible for creating and implementing the unit-based animation production model that fostered a unique and artistically rich environment at the studio. In addition to animation, he also supervised the studio’s scripted live-action series and original TV movies produced for the network. Since joining Cartoon Network in 2000 to establish its original production facility, Miller oversaw the production of more than 3,000 episodes. Under his leadership, the studio became a leader in animation awards, earning 47 Emmy nominations in both primetime and daytime categories. Cartoon Network Studios also received numerous Annie Awards, Italy’s Pulcinella Award, and Annecy’s Cristal Award for Best Television Series, establishing itself as the most awarded television animation studio of the last decade. Beyond the internal productions, Miller also consulted on co-production deals and managed production logistics for externally produced shows. Before his time at Cartoon Network, Miller was Vice President of Production at Nickelodeon’s Animation Studio, where he opened their Burbank facility in 1998. There, he managed both domestic and international production on hit series including SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold!, and the Oh Yeah! Cartoons shorts program. Prior to Nickelodeon, Miller served as Vice President of Animation Production at Hanna-Barbera. He was responsible for both domestic and overseas production on iconic series such as Dexter’s Laboratory, The Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, and The What a Cartoon! shorts program. Miller began his animation career in the mid-1980s at DIC Enterprises, where he started as an associate producer and eventually became Vice President of Production. Before entering the animation world, he worked in live-action television, specializing in early reality programming, including That’s Incredible! He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Radio, Television, and Film from California State University, Northridge.

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Lux Interior

Erick Lee Purkhiser, better known by the stage name Lux Interior, was an American singer and a founding member of the psychobilly band The Cramps from 1972 until his death in 2009 at age 62. Born in Akron, Ohio, he grew up in its nearby suburb of Stow and graduated from Stow High School. He met his partner Kristy Wallace, better known as Poison Ivy, in Sacramento in 1972, when he and a friend picked her up while she was hitchhiking. The couple founded the band after they moved from California to Ohio in 1973, and then to New York in 1975, where they soon became part of the flourishing punk scene. Lux Interior's name came "from an old car commercial", after he previously flirted with the names Vip Vop and Raven Beauty, while his wife's name change was inspired by "a vision she received in a dream". The couple called their musical style psychobilly, a word that appears in the lyrics of Johnny Cash's song, "One Piece at a Time", and gothabilly. The band later said that they were just using the phrases as "carny terms to drum up business." Interior was known for a frenetic and provocative stage show that included high heels, near-nudity and sexually suggestive movements. His speciality was the microphone blow job, where he could get the entire head of an SM-58 microphone into his mouth. The Cramps gave their last show in November 2006. In 2002 Lux Interior voiced a character on the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Party Pooper Pants" – the lead singer of an all-bird rock band called the Bird Brains, performing "Underwater Sun", written and composed by Stephen Hillenburg and Peter Strauss. Tom Kenny, who voices SpongeBob, attended his memorial ceremony in 2009. Interior was also a painter (mainly in his college years) and visual artist. In particular he was a 3D camera collector and enthusiast who used his collection to create artworks and collages. Lux Interior died at 4:30 a.m. on February 4, 2009, at Glendale Memorial Hospital in California. The cause of death was aortic dissection. He was survived by his wife Ivy and two brothers, Michael Purkhiser and Ronald "Skip" Purkhiser, as well as a son from a previous marriage. The memorial service for Lux was held on February 21 at the Windmill Chapel of the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine. Lux's brother Michael also provided insight into his relationship with Lux in a newspaper article.

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Derek Drymon

Cast · Producer · Writer · Known for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, Adventure Time, Kung Fu Panda 2

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Derek Drymon (born November 19, 1968) is an American animator, writer, storyboard artist, director, comedian, and producer. He has worked on numerous animated cartoon productions. Derek Drymon was born in New Jersey. He attended Jefferson Township and Dover public schools as a child and enjoyed drawing and making comic books. Drymon graduated from Jefferson Township High School in 1987. Drymon attended the School of Visual Arts (SVA) in New York, where he majored in illustration, sharpening his drawling skills and moving from still images to animation. He graduated from SVA in 1992. Drymon obtained an internship with Disney on the strength of his life drawings. Drymon was discovered by Nickelodeon in 1993. He moved to California to work as an animator for Nickelodeon. In 1993, Drymon also began working as a storyboard artist and writer for Rocko's Modern Life. It was here he met two of his future employers, Tim Hill, Chris Savino and Stephen Hillenburg; Hill was a writer, Hillenburg a co-producer and storyboard artist. In 1997, Hillenburg created SpongeBob SquarePants. Drymon performed many duties on SpongeBob, including being a writer on all episodes, the creative director, and, on his last season with the show, supervising producer. Drymon also worked on the Cartoon Network animated series Camp Lazlo. Drymon worked on Tim Hill's side project, the popular KaBlam! skit Action League Now!, as a storyboard artist. He also wrote the Emmy Award-nominated episode of CatDog "Doggone". Drymon met Stephen Hillenburg on the Nickelodeon cartoon Rocko's Modern Life. Hillenburg recalled Drymon as "one of the main people in the genesis of SpongeBob". Drymon teamed up with Hillenburg, Hill, and Nick Jennings who was also a companion from Nickelodeon. Drymon was the creative director for the first three seasons and became Supervising Producer in season 3 until being replaced by Paul Tibbitt starting in season 4. Along with Stephen Hillenburg, Drymon approved the writers' ideas and outlines for episodes and controlled the creative and production process on SpongeBob. Drymon was eventually promoted to Executive producer on television show Adventure Time, and became a lead writer and director for DreamWorks Pictures, Illumination Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation and Rovio Animation. During the first three seasons of SpongeBob, Drymon being a creative director allowed him to work with executive story editor Merriwether Williams and the rest of the writing team. Staff writer Kent Osborne responded to the writing process with Drymon and other writers by saying "By the third season we had done 26 half-hours. I came up with millions of ideas." Despite the issues with writing new episodes, Drymon collaborated with the writers to create episode ideas like the half-hour specials and episodes that focused on other characters, for example the season three episodes "The Algae's Always Greener" and "Plankton's Army" focused on Sheldon Plankton and "Doing Time" focused on Mrs. Puff. Drymon said in an interview "Coming up with episode ideas was always tough".

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Brad Abrell

Cast · Known for Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

Brad Abrell is a Los Angeles based actor whose talents are incredibly diverse; he is an on-camera actor, voice-over actor, radio host and puppeteer. Brad grew up in Miami, FL where as a kid he used a tape recorder and Mad magazines as scripts to make his own radio shows. He graduated from the University of Florida and while in his home state, his radio resume' included mornings on 94.9 Zeta 4, WAOA 107.1 and WMMO 98.9. He moved to Los Angeles where the trail of his credits is as varied as his roles; from Mannix in all three Men in Black films, to his loveable shark character, Mr. Chomp, in Disney's Doc McStuffins, to Bubble Buddy in SpongeBob SquarePants, to his black-suited Agent Trigger on Gravity Falls. The list of his on camera commercials is equally as broad including Tide, FedEx, Lowe's, McDonald's, Voya, Kia and many more. Brad has performed as a puppeteer for the Muppets, Muppets Tonight, and Spider-Man 2 and even hosted a game show on Nickelodeon. In addition to his voice-over and on-camera career, Brad is currently co-hosting the nationally syndicated "Ashley & Brad" radio show. He is married to his wife of 19 years and has 2 sons.

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Bruce Brown

Bruce Brown (born December 1, 1937 - December 10, 2017) was an American documentary film director, known as an early pioneer of the surf film. He is the father of filmmaker Dana Brown. His surfing films are Slippery When Wet (1958), Surf Crazy (1959), Barefoot Adventure (1960), Surfing Hollow Days (1961), Waterlogged (1962), and his most well known film, The Endless Summer (1964) which received a nationwide theatrical release in 1966. Considered among the most influential in the genre, The Endless Summer follows surfers Mike Hynson and Robert August around the world. Thirty years later Brown would film The Endless Summer II with his son in 1994. He also made a number of short films including The Wet Set, featuring the Hobie-MacGregor Sportswear Surf Team and one of the earliest skateboarding films, America's Newest Sport, presenting the Hobie Super Surfer Skateboard Team. These short films along with some unused footage from The Endless Summer were included in the DVD Surfin' Shorts, as part of the Golden Years of Surf collection. Brown has gone beyond surfing a few times with the ski film, The Incredible Pair of Skis (1967), a film about motorcycle sport, On Any Sunday (1971) which is held in high regard as one of the best motorcycle documentaries of all time, and a documentary about extreme sports, The Edge (1975), On Any Sunday II (1981) Baja 1000 Classic (1991), and On Any Sunday, revisited (2000) He made a guest appearance in the SpongeBob SquarePants episode SpongeBob vs. The Big One. Brown was a 2009 inductee into the Surfers' Hall of Fame in Huntington Beach, California.

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Carson Kugler

Carson Kugler is an American screenwriter, animator, and storyboard artist. He got his start by working on Nickelodeon for the shows SpongeBob SquarePants, Hey Arnold, and Harvey Beaks.

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Jay Lender

Director · Known for Phineas and Ferb

Jay Lender is an American television writer, storyboard artist and director. He is a former writer and storyboard director for SpongeBob SquarePants. Previous to his work on SpongeBob, Lender designed and drew backgrounds for Nickelodeon's Hey Arnold!. He is the son of the founder of Lender's Bagels, Murray Lender. Since leaving Nickelodeon, Lender has written scripts for video games with his writing partner Micah Wright, and continues to develop animated series concepts as well as drawing the occasional SpongeBob comic strip for Nickelodeon Magazine. Most recently, the duo worked together on Robocalypse, a real-time strategy game for the Nintendo DS. Lender spent two years studying at the Rhode Island School of Design before transferring to CalArts where he specialized in animation. Lender has also directed two seasons of Disney Channel's Phineas and Ferb.

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William Reiss

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, William Arthur Reiss (born May 4, 1976) is an American animator, storyboard artist, and writer. Reiss first worked on the Nickelodeon series SpongeBob SquarePants as an assistant storyboard artist in Season 1 as Bill Reiss, then got promoted to a writer and storyboard artist in Season 2 while still being called "Bill Reiss" by other crew members. Reiss left the show during the fourth season in 2005, but briefly returned in 2009 to storyboard the main title for the 10th Anniversary special, Truth or Square. After SpongeBob, he went to work for Cartoon Network and worked as a storyboard artist for certain shows at that network. He is best known for teaming up with former SpongeBob writer C.H. Greenblatt to serve as creative director on his cartoon Chowder. They later worked as directors for Fish Hooks, which he co-developed with Alex Hersch for Noah Z. Jones for Disney Channel. After Fish Hooks, he worked on Mickey Mouse as a writer, storyboard artist and director. In 2016, Reiss worked on C.H. Greenblatt's new series for Nickelodeon, Harvey Beaks.