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name: "Bill Griffith"
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born: "20 January 1944"
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# Bill Griffith

Actor. Born 20 January 1944 in Brooklyn, New York City, U.S..

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 January 1944, Brooklyn, New York City, U.S.
- **Also known as:** William Henry Jackson Griffith, Griffy
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862146, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0341443/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1097545

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*Crumb*](https://film.one/film/crumb.md) (87)

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## Biography

Bill Griffith (born William Henry Jackson Griffith, also credited as Griffy) is an American cartoonist and actor. Born on 20 January 1944 in Brooklyn, New York City, he is best known as the creator of the long-running surreal comic strip *Zippy the Pinhead*.

Griffith was part of the San Francisco underground comix scene from 1970. He appeared as himself in the documentary *Crumb* (1995) and has other self credits including *It Came from Kuchar* (2009). He acted in *The Devil's Cleavage* (1975). He was married to cartoonist Diane Noomin from 1980 until her death in 2022.

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, lambiek.net.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Crumb* (1995), Fi1m 87, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/crumb.md)

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