David Silverman

David Silverman is a quiet titan of American animation. He animated the original Simpsons shorts on The Tracey Ullman Show before the family even had their own series, then directed countless episodes and the 2007 feature film. That is a career fused completely with a single cultural institution, and it commands my deep respect. A New Yorker trained at UCLA, he represents the painstaking, frame-by-frame hand labor that built a comedy empire most people credit to writers alone. I think we too often overlook the animators who give those jokes their motion and timing. Silverman is exactly the kind of behind-the-scenes giant worth celebrating.

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Name (English)

David Silverman

Name (Japanese)

デヴィッド・シルヴァーマン

Reading

でゔぃっど・しるゔぁーまん

Born

March 15, 1957 (age 69)

Origin

New York City, New York, United States

Occupation

film director / animator / actor / film producer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

University

University of California, Los Angeles

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• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Silverman%20(animator)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%87%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%83%83%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1%E3%83%BC%E3%83%9E%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q919608

Tags

• New York
• film director
• animator
• actor

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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