Jim Davis

Writing

Biography

James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head. Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced Garfield and Friends, a series which also aired on CBS from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series The Garfield Show and Garfield Originals. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Davis (cartoonist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography Movies

Acting

MOVIE

Happy Birthday Garfield

8.0(0.0K)

Garfield creator Jim Davis presents a behind-the-scenes 10th-anniversary celebration of the pasta-eating cat.

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Happy Birthday Garfield

Himself - Host

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Stripped

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A documentary on comic strips, with never-seen-before interviews from Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jim Davis (Garfield), Jeff Keane (Family Circus), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy) and dozens more. The film asks a central question: Where do comic strips go when newspapers die? Everybody loves comics, but will they survive in a digital world?

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Stripped

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Garfield as Himself

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In HERE COMES GARFIELD, poor, sweet Odie is sent to the pound after he and Garfield are caught trying to annoy a nasty neighbor, and it's up to the fat cat to free the dim-witted pup. In GARFIELD ON THE TOWN, Garfield escapes on a trip to the vet, has a run-in with some alley cats and meets his long-lost mother. Finally, GARFIELD GETS A LIFE finds Garfield, Odie and Jon spicing up their lives with makeovers, dating services and disco dancing.

Garfield as Himself

Garfield's Fun Fest

5.0(0.1K)

Garfield's 29-year winning streak in the annual Fun Fest talent competition is threatened by a dashing new entrant, Ramone, who possesses great charm. Concerned about losing his touch, Garfield goes on a quest to seek Freddy Frog's mythical pond, where it is said that anyone who drinks from it is certain to be funny.

Garfield on the Town

7.5(0.0K)

Garfield escapes from the car on a trip to the vet and finds the place where he grew up.

Garfield's Thanksgiving

7.0(0.0K)

On Thanksgiving, according to Garfield, people celebrate food by eating as much of it as possible. It's a tradition! But that tradition is history following a checkup from vet Liz, who says Garfield must go on a diet.

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Garfield's Thanksgiving

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Garfield's Halloween Adventure

7.3(0.1K)

Garfield and his pup pal Odie go trick-or-treating, only to wind up in a house haunted by ghostly pirates.

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Garfield's Halloween Adventure

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Garfield Gets Real

5.0(0.1K)

Everyone's favorite lazy, lasagna loving, Monday hating orange tabby leaves his exciting star of a popular comic strip world for the real one. But as the novelty wears thin, Garfield begins looking for a way back before his strip is permanently cancelled.

Garfield's Pet Force

5.5(0.1K)

Nothing in the world can make Garfield get involved in anything besides eating, until the muscular super cat Garzooka comes crashing into Cartoon World from the Comic Book universe with terrifying news. Garfield summons up the willpower to join his superhero Garzooka in a fight to save their worlds.

Garfield Gets a Life

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Garfield and his owner, Jon Arbuckle, are in a rut. Life for them is a complete bore. They both need a life. Jon tries several unsuccessful times to get a date. Then he attends a class for the personality impaired where he meets a young woman and all seems to be great for Jon, but Garfield starts to feel neglected and left out.