Rob Oliver

Rob Oliver

Crew Information

Gender:	Male ♂
Job:	Character layout artist Director Storyboard artist Technical director
Birth date:	March 25, 1977 (1977-03-25) (age 48)
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	157
First episode:	"The Old Man and the Lisa"
Most recent episode:	"Throw Grampa from the Dane"
Movie:	The Simpsons Movie

Robert Douglas "Rob" Oliver (born March 25, 1977) is an American animator. He currently serves as a director and previously served as a character layout artist, director, storyboard artist, second unit director and technical director for The Simpsons.

Credits

Storyboard revisions

Storyboard

Episode – "Revenge Is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
Episode – "Little Big Girl"
Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
Episode – "The Good, the Sad, and the Drugly"
Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
Episode – "Holidays of Future Passed"
Episode – "Homer Goes to Prep School"
Episode – "Changing of the Guardian"
Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
Episode – "The Saga of Carl"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIV"
Episode – "Diggs"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
Episode – "Blazed and Confused"
Episode – "Sky Police"
Episode – "Barthood"

Additional sequence director

– The Simpsons Movie

Technical director

Episode – "Oh Brother, Where Bart Thou?"
Episode – "Thursdays with Abie"
Episode – "Million Dollar Maybe"
Episode – "Boy Meets Curl"
Episode – "The Color Yellow"
Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
Episode – "Stealing First Base"
Episode – "The Greatest Story Ever D'ohed"
Episode – "American History X-cellent"
Episode – "Chief of Hearts"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "To Surveil, with Love"
Episode – "Moe Letter Blues"
Episode – "The Bob Next Door"
Episode – "Judge Me Tender"
Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Loan-a Lisa"
Episode – "MoneyBart"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXI"
Episode – "Lisa Simpson, This Isn't Your Life"
Episode – "The Fool Monty"
Episode – "How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?"
Episode – "The Fight Before Christmas"
Episode – "Donnie Fatso"
Episode – "Moms I'd Like to Forget"
Episode – "Flaming Moe"
Episode – "Homer the Father"
Episode – "The Blue and the Gray"
Episode – "Angry Dad: The Movie"
Episode – "The Scorpion's Tale"
Episode – "A Midsummer's Nice Dreams"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Strangled Thing"
Episode – "The Great Simpsina"
Episode – "The Real Housewives of Fat Tony"
Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
Episode – "500 Keys"
Episode – "The Ned-liest Catch"
Episode – "The Falcon and the D'ohman"
Episode – "Bart Stops to Smell the Roosevelts"
Episode – "Replaceable You"
Episode – "The Food Wife"
Episode – "The Man in the Blue Flannel Pants"
Episode – "The Ten-Per-Cent Solution"
Episode – "Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson"
Episode – "The D'oh-cial Network"
Episode – "Moe Goes from Rags to Riches"
Episode – "The Daughter Also Rises"
Episode – "At Long Last Leave"
Episode – "Exit Through the Kwik-E-Mart"
Episode – "How I Wet Your Mother"
Episode – "Them, Robot"
Episode – "Beware My Cheating Bart"
Episode – "A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again"
Episode – "The Spy Who Learned Me"
Episode – "Ned 'n' Edna's Blend Agenda"
Episode – "Lisa Goes Gaga"
Episode – "Moonshine River"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XXIII"
Episode – "Gone Abie Gone"
Episode – "Penny-Wiseguys"
Episode – "A Tree Grows in Springfield"
Episode – "The Day the Earth Stood Cool"

Animatic layout

Episode – "Married to the Blob"
Episode – "Days of Future Future"
Episode – "Pay Pal"
Episode – "The Wreck of the Relationship"
Episode – "Opposites A-Frack"
Episode – "Simpsorama"

Second unit director

Episode – "Changing of the Guardian"
Episode – "Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing"
Episode – "Hardly Kirk-ing"
Episode – "Gorgeous Grampa"
Episode – "Black-Eyed, Please"
Episode – "What Animated Women Want"
Episode – "Dangers on a Train"
Episode – "Four Regrettings and a Funeral"
Episode – "The Man Who Grew Too Much"
Episode – "Diggs"
Episode – "The War of Art"
Episode – "You Don't Have to Live Like a Referee"
Episode – "Pay Pal"
Episode – "Super Franchise Me"
Episode – "The Man Who Came to Be Dinner"
Episode – "Bull-E"
Episode – "Mathlete's Feat"
Episode – "Every Man's Dream"

Animation director

Special – The Simpsons Take the Bowl

Opening sequence assistant director

Episode – "The Winter of His Content"

External links

Rob Oliver at the Internet Movie Database

Directors

view • talk • edit • past Current directors
Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino

view • talk • edit • past Former directors
Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susan Dietter • Mark Ervin • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa

view • talk • edit • past One time directors
Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo

view • talk • edit • past Supervising directors
Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman

view • talk • edit • past Second unit directors
Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell

view • talk • edit • past Other directors
Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner