Ian Wilcox

Ian Wilcox

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Background layout artist Background designer Birth date: July 1, 1955 Death date: April 30, 2022 (aged 66) Status: Deceased Number of episodes: 112 Seasons active: Season 17 - 30 First episode: "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Most recent episode: "Girl's in the Band"

Ian Wilcox (July 1, 1955 – April 30, 2022) was an American animator. He served as a background layout artist and background designer for The Simpsons. He also worked for King of the Hill. After his death, the season 33 episode "Marge the Meanie" was dedicated to him.

Credits

Background layout

Episode – "We're on the Road to D'ohwhere" Episode – "The Debarted" Episode – "Dangerous Curves" Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally" Episode – "In the Name of the Grandfather" Episode – "Bart Gets a "Z"" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XX" Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?" Episode – "Once Upon a Time in Springfield" Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe" Episode – "Boy Meets Curl" Episode – "Stealing First Base" Episode – "Chief of Hearts" Episode – "To Surveil with Love" Episode – "Moe Letter Blues" Episode – "The Bob Next Door" Episode – "Judge Me Tender" Episode – "Loan-a Lisa" Episode – "MoneyBart" Episode – "The Fool Monty" Episode – "Donnie Fatso" Episode – "Homer the Father" Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing" Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch" Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman" Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart" Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother" Episode – "Them, Robot" Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII" Episode – "Adventures in Baby-Getting" Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool" Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please" Episode – "Dark Knight Court" Episode – "Pulpit Friction" Episode – "Dangers on a Train" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV" Episode – "YOLO" Episode – "White Christmas Blues" Episode – "Married to the Blob" Episode – "Diggs" Episode – "The War of Art" Episode – "Luca$" Episode – "Pay Pal" Episode – "Clown in the Dumps" Episode – "Super Franchise Me" Episode – "Simpsorama" Episode – "Covercraft" Episode – "The Princess Guide" Episode – "Mathlete's Feat" Episode – "'Cue Detective" Episode – "Lisa with an "S"" Episode – "'Paths of Glory" Episode – "Barthood" Episode – "The Girl Code" Episode – "Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles" Episode – "Much Apu About Something" Episode – "Lisa the Veterinarian" Episode – "How Lisa Got Her Marge Back" Episode – "Fland Canyon" Episode – "To Courier with Love" Episode – "There Will Be Buds" Episode – "Dad Behavior" Episode – "The Nightmare After Krustmas" Episode – "Pork and Burns" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part One" Episode – "The Great Phatsby: Part Two" Episode – "Fatzcarraldo" Episode – "Kamp Krustier" Episode – "Moho House" Episode – "Dogtown" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXVIII" Episode – "Singin' in the Lane" Episode – "Mr. Lisa's Opus" Episode – "Gone Boy" Episode – "Homer Is Where the Art Isn't" Episode – "Fears of a Clown" Episode – "Throw Grampa from the Dane" Episode – "Baby You Can't Drive My Car" Episode – "Werking Mom" Episode – "The Clown Stays in the Picture" Episode – "101 Mitigations" Episode – "Girl's in the Band" Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Lead background layout

Episode – "Regarding Margie" Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times" Episode – "Crook and Ladder" Episode – "Little Orphan Millie" Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter" Episode – "Sex, Pies and Idiot Scrapes" Episode – "How the Test Was Won" Episode – "Homer the Whopper" Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas" Episode – "Flaming Moe" Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale" Episode – "500 Keys" Episode – "The Food Wife" Episode – "The Book Job" Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution" Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises" Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me" Episode – "Ned 'n Edna's Blend Agenda" Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield" Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa" Episode – "The Saga of Carl" Episode – "Specs and the City" Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship" Episode – "My Fare Lady" Episode – "Bull-E" Episode – "Friends and Family" Episode – "Looking for Mr. Goodbart" Episode – "Left Behind" Episode – "'Tis the 30th Season"

Background designer

• THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"

• Episode – "YOLO"

• Episode – "White Christmas Blues"

• Episode – "Specs and the City"

External links

• Ian Wilcox at the Internet Movie Database

Deceased crew and guest stars

Cast Christopher Collins • Doris Grau • Phil Hartman • Christian Coffinet • Marcia Wallace • Russi Taylor Crew Michael O'Connor • Michael P. Schoenbrun • Robert Glass • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Thomas Chastain • Jackie Banks • Constantin Mustatea • Tom Coppola • Ed DeMattia • Andy Houts • Phyllis Craig • Sunni Walton • Art Seidel‎ • Lee Mishkin • Kent Holaday • Ted C. Bemiller • Barrington T. Bunce • James O'Brien • Daria Paris • Ron Scalera • Kevyn L. Wallace • Maxine Markota • Don Payne • Richard Lorenzana • Betty Chaplin • Steve Viksten • Don Vanderbeek • Paul Gruwell • Harold M. Schulweis • Chris Moeller • Danny Taverna • Sam Simon • Cliff Voorhees • Richard Manginsay • Ray Colcord • Gary Hoffman • Julia Kalantarova • Kevin Curran • Sooan Kim • Merle Welton • Rochelle Linder • Arthur B. Rubinstein • Jerry Richardson • Lolee Aries • Patrick Williams • Domingo Rivera • Trista H. Navarro • Chris Reccardi • Dennis Snee • Ernesto Elicanal • J. Michael Mendel • Marsha Kramer • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Cullen Blaine • Tuck Tucker • Alan Decker • Brenda Banks • Dale Baer • David Richardson • Marc Wilmore • Rick Bowman • Edwin E. Aguilar • Marko Barrows • Frank Mula • Mike Camarillo • David Schwartz • Ian Wilcox • Trixie Flynn • Terry Harrington • Ron Zimmerman • Laurie Hanson • Jeff Howard • Ralph Eggleston • Jennifer Dolce • Chris Ledesma • Susan Burke • Anne Luiting • Bike Kinzle • Craig Armstrong • Istvan Majoros • John Bush • Sue Bielenberg • Brian McConnachie • Reid Harrison • Shigeko Doyle • Michael Swanigan • William Wright • Karenia Kaminski • Steve Pepoon • Alf Clausen • Todd Jacobsen • Dan McGrath Comic crew Ed Roth • Dan DeCarlo • Al Williamson • Gene Colan • Earl Kress • John Severin • George Gladir • Stan Goldberg • Murphy Anderson • Lemmy • Gary Glasberg • Dan Spiegle • Bernie Wrightson • Carolyn Kelly • Len Wein • Batton Lash • Dan Nakrosis • Oscar González Loyo • Chris Yambar • Ramona Fradon Video game crew Tom D. Heidt • Bill Williams • W. Marshall Rogers Album crew Billie Holiday • Curt Ousley • Arthur Herzog, Jr. • David Cole • Floyd Cramer • Lew McCreary • David Frisina • Harold Dicterow • Terry Harrington • Myra Kestenbaum • Mike Rubin • Jon Clarke • Gene Morford • Michael Botts • John Thomas Johnson • Dorothy Wade • Richard Joseph • Larry Corbett • Don Palmer • Ben Keith • Ronni Chasen • Harris Goldman • Armen Garabedian • Israel Baker • Andrew Gold • Warren Luening • Bernard Kundell • B. B. King • Jimmy Levine • Chuck Berry • Isabelle Daskoff • Dell Hake • Roger Neumann • Gary Stewart • Dr. John • Tommy Morgan • Vincent DeRosa • Michael Lang Guest stars Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gene Lockhart • John F. Kennedy • Rex Harrison • Richard Nixon • John Megna • Audrey Meadows • George Fenneman • Linda McCartney • Anthony Newley‎‎ • Jim Varney • Tito Puente • Steve Allen • Joe C. • Werner Klemperer • Joey Ramone • Jack Lemmon • George Harrison • Ron Taylor • Lawrence Tierney • Stephen Jay Gould • John Entwistle • Rod Steiger • Chick Hearn • Johnny Unitas • Gregory Peck • Barry White • Bob Hope • Johnny Cash • George Plimpton • Paul Winfield • Isabel Sanford • Johnny Ramone • Rodney Dangerfield • Johnny Carson • Johnnie Cochran • Henry Corden • Anne Bancroft • Bob Denver • Dennis Weaver • James Brown • Tom Poston • Robert Goulet • George Carlin • Paul Newman • Eartha Kitt • Patrick McGoohan • John Updike • Ed McMahon • Michael Jackson • Gary Coleman • Robert Schimmel • Jack LaLanne • Elizabeth Taylor • Clarence Clemons • Charles Napier • Joe Frazier • Harry Morgan • Tom Ardolino • Dick Tufeld • Dick Clark • Ernest Borgnine • Gore Vidal • Marvin Hamlisch • Neil Armstrong • Larry Hagman • Huell Howser • Pat Summerall • Joyce Brothers • Cory Monteith • Allen Lanier • Tom Clancy • Mickey Rooney • Don Pardo • Joan Rivers • Jan Hooks • Leonard Nimoy • Alex Rocco • Merl Reagle • Daryl Coley • Garry Marshall • Fyvush Finkel • Janet Reno • Adam West • Jack Ong • Martin Landau • June Foray • Jerry Lewis • Hugh Hefner • Tom Petty • Ray Thomas • John Mahoney • Stephen Hawking • R. Lee Ermey • Carl Kasell • Tom Wolfe • Anthony Bourdain • Harlan Ellison • Stan Lee • Ricky Jay • Penny Marshall • Luke Perry • Tim Conway • Valerie Harper • Robert Forster • Robert Evans • Jack Sheldon • John Baldessari • Jack Burns • Kirk Douglas • James Lipton • Max von Sydow • Little Richard • Fred Willard • Regis Philbin • Alex Trebek • Joan Kenley • David Lander • Larry King • Cloris Leachman • George Segal • Olympia Dukakis • Jackie Mason • Ed Asner • Graeme Edge • Stephen Sondheim • John Madden • Betty White • Peter Bogdanovich • Maggy Reno Hurchalla • Ray Liotta • James Caan • Nichelle Nichols • David Crosby • Sal Bando • Bill Saluga • Jerry Springer • Treat Williams • Tony Bennett • William Friedkin • Suzanne Somers • Matthew Perry • Frances Sternhagen • Norman Lear • Tom Smothers • Richard Lewis • Donald Sutherland • Martin Mull • Bob Newhart • James Earl Jones • Elwood Edwards • Jay North • George Wendt • Gailard Sartain • Jane Goodall • John Lodge • Frank Gehry • Rob Reiner Other Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle • James Sanderson • Sarah Adams • Edgar Allan Poe • Lowell Mason • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Richard Strauss • Cole Porter • Paul Webster • Bob Harris • Elsie Castellaneta • Dora K. Warren • Alan Gordon • Daryl Gates • Robert Reno • Hal David • Rusty Nails • Csaba Varga • Louis Castellaneta • András Erkel • Herb Trimpe • David Kavner • George H. W. Bush • Double K • Dusty Hill • David Davis • Burt Bacharach • Gene Merlino • Morgan Spurlock • Ruth Westheimer • Bob Uecker • Jill Sobule

Background designers

Current background designers Lynna Blankenship • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Jabu Henderson • TJ Kim • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Mark Mulgrew • Debbie Peterson • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Charles Ragins • Chris Stephen Sentovich • Lance Wilder Former background designers Ben Anderson • Alvaro Arce • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Chris Bolden • Andy Chen • Chad E. Cooper • Seth Cooper • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Alexander C. Dilts • Edgar Duncan • Tria Ellison • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Ernesto Escobar • Dillon Froelich • Sarah Frost • Ed Ghertner • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Sam Ho • Gary Hoffman • Trevor Johnson • John Krause • Christian Lignan • John Liu • Tom Madrid, Jr. • Walter Mancia • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • Kevin N. Moore • Phil Ortiz • John Pattison • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Gerald Clifford Rey • Dean Scammahorn • George Taylor • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich • Phillip O. Yeo Other background designers Geoffrey Anderson • David Beall • Ryan Cheetham • Andrew DeLange • Charles Garcia • John Gibson • Tim Hwang • Heejin Kim • Roman Laney • John Seymore • Robert Soussana • George Stokes • Antonio Torres • Arnel Torres • Lindsay Woods

Background layout artists

Current background layout artists Ben Anderson • Geoffrey Anderson • Ryan Cheetham • Andy Chen • Jarod Daetwiler • Ralph Delgado • Dillon Froelich • Sam Ho • Heejin Kim • John Liu • Mike Pettengill • Steve Pilapil • Javier Pineda • Gerald Clifford Rey • George Stokes • Bill Thyen • Rene Vega • George Villaflor • Doug Walker • Phillip O. Yeo Former background layout artists John Achenbach • Young Baek • Timothy Bailey • John Berman • Sue Bielenberg • Lynna Blankenship • Jennifer Bogartz • Chris Bolden • Brent M. Bowen • Andrew Burrell • Mark Bykov • Mike Camarillo • Paul Castro • Daniel Chiu • Sean Coons • Chad E. Cooper • Alfred "Tops" Cruz • Carol Delmindo Datuin • Peter J. DeLuca • Claude Denis • Alexander C. Dilts • Arnold Doong • Edgar Duncan • Eric Dunn • Mark Ervin • Leasa Epps-Eisele • Sarah Frost • Tricia Garcia • Monette Goldman • Adam Greeley • Heejin Han • Phil Hayes • Jake Hempe • Jabu Henderson • Gary Hoffman • Jeremy Horn • Mark Howard • Drew Johnson • Trevor Johnson • Dave S. Karoll • Atanas Karpelas • Kui Yong Kim • TJ Kim • Young Kim • John Krause • Nancy Kruse • John Lindauer • Hugh MacDonald • Maria Mariotti-Parker • Jeff "Swampy" Marsh • John Mathot • Pete Michels • Larry Miravalles • Jeff Myers • Matthew Nastuk • Carlos Nieto III • John Pattison • Debbie Peterson • Mike Frank Polcino • Cameron Porter • Charles Ragins • Becca Ramos • Jerry Richardson • Denis Rychlick • Rick Salonga • Dean Scammahorn • Peter Shin • Cole Shortt • Steve Smith • Chad Stewart • Tuck Tucker • Scott Uehara • Don Vanderbeek • Cliff Voorhees • Jefferson R. Weekley • Ian Wilcox • Glen Wuthrich Other background layout artists James P. Alles • Galina Budkin • Edgar Carlos • Derek Carter • Namsuk Cho • Randol Eagles • Natalie Franscioni Karp • Rodel Gravo • Lam Hoang • Cynthia Ignacio • Arlan Jewell • Hyung-Ki Kim • Yeon-Ju Kim • Alex J. Lee • Ashley Lenz • Juan Luna • Jeffrey A. Mertz • Gary Mouri • Mark Mulgrew • Gang Peng • Chuck Puntuvatana • Jeffrey Purves • Jonathan Pyun • Gerald Clifford Rey • Choun-Wung Son • Thomas Starnes • Allen Tam • Danny Taverna • Kevyn L. Wallace • Wallace Williamson • Chad Woods • Chung Sup Yoon • Jennifer Yuan