Tuck Tucker

Director · Died December 22, 2020, aged 59 · Lynchburg, Virginia, USA

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. William Osborne "Tuck" Tucker III (August 20, 1961 - December 22, 2020) was an American writer, storyboard artist, animator, songwriter, and director who worked on Hey Arnold! and SpongeBob SquarePants. He directed Hey Arnold!: The Movie in 2002. 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 the 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.

What are Tuck Tucker's films like?

Across a limited sample of 3 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Society and Self.

Themes

share of theme weight

Society

44%

Self

25%

Morality

23%

Bonds

9%

Community2

Moods and endings

endings shown from 5 titles

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Joyful

2

Absurd

1

Thrilling

2

Hopeful

1

Tense

1

Other

1

How their films linger

Fun3 Feel-good2

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Tuck Tucker's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 7 of their 10 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Paramount+ (6).

Also on these channels

Shout! TV1 title, show their title on Shout! TV

Subscription and free streaming for Tuck Tucker's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

16 credits, 10 with a MovieCove page.

Squirrel Boy (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2006)
Show 2 episodes · Storyboard Artist
Camp Lazlo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2005)
Show 3 episodes · Storyboard Artist · Writer
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie(2004)
Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 90th percentile of all films
Drawn Together(2004)
Show 2 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
Hare and Loathing in Las Vegas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(2004)
Storyboard
Party Wagon(2004)
Director
Midcredits score: 76th percentile of all films
Hey Arnold! The Movie(2002)
Director
Midcredits score: 44th percentile of all films
The Fairly OddParents(2001)
Show 9 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 63rd percentile of all shows
SpongeBob SquarePants(1999)
Show 8 episodes · Director · Writer
Midcredits score: 88th percentile of all shows
Oh Yeah! Cartoons(1998)
Show 1 episode · Storyboard Artist
Midcredits score: 70th percentile of all shows
Hey Arnold! Arnold's Christmas (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Director
Hey Arnold!(1996)
Show 19 episodes · Director
Midcredits score: 78th percentile of all shows
Arnold (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1996)
Storyboard
2 Stupid Dogs (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1993)
Show 5 episodes · Storyboard Artist
BraveStarr: The Legend(1988)
Animation
Midcredits score: 73rd percentile of all films
Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night(1987)
Animation
Midcredits score: 48th percentile of all films

Career shape

A full career of 16 titles from 1987 to 2006.

Biggest box office

Hey Arnold! The Movie (2002)

$15M worldwide

Highest rated

Drawn Together (2004)

Midcredits 63^rd

By role

only this rolewith another role

Directing7 of 16 · 70^thWriting4 of 16Other crew7 of 16

By decade

1980s2 · crew1990s6 · crew2000s8 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Midcredits score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on MovieCove, shown from 5 scored.

Who does Tuck Tucker work with?

People who share at least 2 of Tuck Tucker's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Craig Bartlett shares the most, 2.