Wes Archer
Animation Director, TV Director
1961 –
Who is Wes Archer?
Wesley Meyer "Wes" Archer is a television animation director. He was one of the original three animators on The Simpsons', Tracey Ullman shorts, and subsequently directed a number of The Simpsons episodes before becoming supervising director at King of the Hill. A few years later he left King of the Hill to direct for Futurama, before eventually returning to King of the Hill. Wes continued to supervise the direction of King of the Hill until the final season. He acted as a consulting director for the last season of King of the Hill, as he joined The Goode Family as supervising director. Archer's college animation film, "Jac Mac and Rad Boy, Go!" has long been a cult classic after receiving repeated airplay on USA Network's Night Flight in the 1980s. He studied at the Film Graphics/Experimental Animation Program at CalArts.
Archer's namesake also appears in an episode of King of the Hill, in which Peggy is duped into smuggling cocaine to an inmate on death row. The antagonist of the episode, the inmate, was named Wesley Martin Archer. The name combined both Wes' and his brother and co-worker, Martin Archer.
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- Born
- Nov 26, 1961
Houston - Also known as
- Wesley Meyer Archer
- Wesley Archer
- W.M. 'Bud' Archer
- Wes M. Archer
- Wesley M. Archer
- Wesley Meyer 'Bud' Archer
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
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on July 23, 2013
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