Tuck Tucker

• Name — Tuck Tucker • Birth Name — William Osborne Tucker III • Born — 20 August 1961 • Died — 22 December 2020 • Place of death — Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. • Birthplace — Lynchburg, Virginia, U.S. • Other Names — Billy Bob Tucker • Occupation — * Writer • storyboard artist • animator • director • songwriter • Children — 1 • Known for — Hey Arnold! SpongeBob SquarePants • Years Active — 1987–2020

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 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.

• Year — Title — Notes • 1987–1988 — BraveStarr — Assistant Animator • 1988–1989 — ALF Tales — Storyboard Clean-Up (Season 1) • ALF: The Animated Series — Storyboard Clean-Up (Season 2) • 1990–1993; 1995 — The Simpsons — Character Layout Artist (1990–1993) Storyboard Artist ("Dancin' Homer") Animation Timer ("Principal Charming") Background Layout Artist ("A Star Is Burns") • 1991; 1994–1995 — Rugrats — Character Layout Artist ("Tommy's First Birthday," "Barbecue Story/Waiter, There's a Baby in My Soup," and "Baby Commercial/Little Dude") Storyboard Artist (1994–1995) Assistant Director (1994) • 1992–1993 — The Ren and Stimpy Show — Layout Artist • 1993 — 2 Stupid Dogs — Storyboard Artist • 1994–1995 — Aaahh!!! Real Monsters • 1994–1996 — Duckman • 1996–2004 — Hey Arnold! — Creative Director Supervising Director (1999–2004) Storyboard Director (1996–1999) Storyboard Artist ("24 Hours to Live") Storyboard Supervisor ("The Journal") Sheet Timer (1997) Director (1996–1998; 2001) • 1997 — What a Cartoon! — Layout Artist ("Tales of Worm Paranoia") • 1998 — Oh Yeah! Cartoons — Storyboard Artist ("Planet Kate") • 2002–2006 — The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius — Creative Consultant Storyboard Artist (2003) • 2005 — Camp Lazlo — Writer & Storyboard Artist • 2005–2006 — Family Guy — Storyboard Artist ("PTV") Assistant Director ("Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story") • 2005–2006 — Drawn Together — Director • 2006–2014 — SpongeBob SquarePants — Writer & Storyboard Director (2006–2007) Supervising Storyboard Director (2007–2014) Songwriter ("The Inmates of Summer" and "Pest of the West") Special Thanks ("Truth or Square") • 2006 — Squirrel Boy — Storyboard Artist • 2008 — The Mighty B! — Storyboard Revisionist • 2013–2014 — The Fairly OddParents — Director (Season 9) • 2013–2014 — Clarence — Sheet Timer ("Pretty Great Day with a Girl") Storyboard Supervisor Storyboard Revision Supervisor ("Belson's Sleepover") • 2015 — All Hail King Julien — Storyboard Artist ("The Really Really Big Lie")