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David Keith Lynch (born January 20, 1946) is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, composer, video and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980), Blue Velvet (1986), and Mulholland Drive (2001). He has won awards at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Lynch is probably best recalled as the director of The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Dr. and as the creator of the Twin Peaks...

Jerome "Jerry" Seinfeld (born on April 29, 1954 in Brooklyn, New York) is a Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning American comedian, actor and writer. He is often described as an observational comedian. He is best known for playing a semi-fictional version of himself in the long-running situation comedy, Seinfeld, (1989 - 1998), which he co-created, helped write and, in the show's final two seasons, executively produced. He also starred as "Barry B. Benson" in the film Bee Movie, his first major...

Aaron Benjamin Sorkin (born June 9, 1961) is an American screenwriter, producer and playwright. After graduating from Syracuse University with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Musical Theatre in 1983, Sorkin spent much of the 1980s in New York as a struggling, largely unemployed actor. He found his passion in writing plays, and quickly established himself as a young promising playwright. His stageplay A Few Good Men caught the attention of Hollywood producer David Brown, who bought the film...

Amy Sherman-Palladino (née Sherman) is an American television writer and producer. Sherman-Palladino is married to writer and producer Daniel Palladino. Sherman-Palladino became a staff writer on Roseanne during the show's third season in 1990. Among the storylines and episodes she wrote was an Emmy-nominated episode about birth control. Sherman-Palladino left the show after season six in 1994, and worked on several other projects, including a failed pilot (Love and Marriage) and writing...

Mitchell Hurwitz is an Emmy-winning American television writer and producer. He is the creator of the television program Arrested Development and co-creator of The Ellen Show, and was a contributor to The John Larroquette Show and Golden Girls. He is a graduate of Georgetown University. His most recent project is a US television adaptation of the UK comedy show The Thick of It. The series was in the running for ABC's 2007-2008 season, but was not picked up. Other networks, including HBO,...

Glen Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Charles began his professional life as an advertising copywriter, but moved into television. He began his television career with his brother, Les Charles. The two were writer-producers for The Bob Newhart Show, created and produced Taxi, formed the Charles-Burrows-Charles production company with James Burrows, and created and produced the television series Cheers. The...

David Lawrence Angell (April 10, 1946 – September 11, 2001) was an American television situation comedy producer. Angell won multiple Emmy Award as the creator and executive producer, along with Peter Casey and David Lee, of the comedy series Frasier. He died in the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Angell was born in West Barrington, Rhode Island, and he received a bachelor's degree in English Literature from Providence College. He entered the army upon...

Matthew Abram Groening ( -ning) (born February 15 1954) is an American cartoonist, television producer and writer from Portland, Oregon, best known as the creator of The Simpsons. He is also the creator of Futurama and the author of the weekly comic strip Life in Hell. Groening distributed Life in Hell in the book corner of Licorice Pizza, a record store in which he worked. He made his first professional cartoon sale to the avant-garde ''Wet'' magazine in 1978. The cartoon is still carried in...

Jeffrey Jacob "J.J." Abrams (born in 1966) is an Emmy Award-winning film and television producer, writer, actor, composer, and director. Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Abrams first job in the movie business started when he was 15 when he wrote music for Don Dohler's film Nightbeast. J.J. Abrams attended Sarah Lawrence College where, during his senior year, he teamed with a friend to write a feature film treatment. Purchased by Touchstone Pictures, the treatment was the basis for...

James Duff (born ) is an American writer. He was born in New Orleans, Louisiana and has written plays and television screenplay. Duff was nominated for an Emmy Award for his screenplay for the television movie Doing Time on Maple Drive. He is credited as the creator of the TV series The Closer.

David Sanford Kohan (born 16 April 1964) is an American television producer. After writing for The Wonder Years and The Dennis Miller Show, Kohan co-created and produced Will & Grace, Good Morning, Miami, Twins and Four Kings with Max Mutchnick. Kohan has won an Emmy, a People's Choice Award and has been nominated for a Golden Globe Award. Kohan was born in New York City, New York and graduated from Wesleyan University. He is the brother of writer/producer Jenji Kohan, and the brother-in...

Mark Brazill (born April 16, 1962) is a television creator and executive producer. Brazill was a consulting producer and later a producer of NBC's 3rd Rock from the Sun. Brazill created the FOX series That '70s Show, in which he, along with Bonnie and Terry Turner, created the characters, including Eric Forman, Donna Pinciotti, Michael Kelso, and Jackie Burkhart. Brazill and a then-unknown Judd Apatow had heated arguments through e-mail messages on their early career. Brazill claimed that...

Richard Dene Gervais (born 25 June 1961) is a triple Golden Globe-, double Emmy- and seven-time BAFTA award-winning English comedian, writer, actor and former New Romantic musician from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais burst into mainstream fame with his ground-breaking BBC Two television programme The Office (for which he won 6 BAFTAs and 2 Golden Globes) and the series Extras, both of which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing...