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Mark Frost   Topic Twin Peaks
Mark Frost (born 25 November 1953) is an American novelist, television/film writer, director, and executive producer. His work became famous in the seminal 1980s TV show Hill Street Blues. His other TV credits include Twin Peaks and On the Air. He co-wrote and directed the film Storyville, co-wrote Fantastic Four and wrote The Greatest Game Ever Played (based on his novel of the same name). Frost is the son of actor Warren Frost, brother of writer Scott Frost and actress Lindsay Frost. He...
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Film writer American Chronicles
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David Lynch DAVID LYNCH %28CannesPhotocall%29.jpg Film director Twin Peaks
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...
Film writer On the Air
Film producer Hotel Room
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Alan Ball   Topic Six Feet Under
Alan Ball (born May 13, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film American Beauty, and for creating the HBO original drama series Six Feet Under. Alan Ball was born on May 13 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia and raised in the suburb of Marietta. Ball was an undergraduate student of the Florida State University School of Theatre, but did not receive a diploma. He...
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Jerry Seinfeld Topic Seinfeld
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...
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Larry David David as a B-movie actor in the Seinfeld episode, "The Heart Attack" Topic Seinfeld
Lawrence Gene David (born July 2, 1947) is an American Emmy-winning actor, writer, comedian, producer and film director. Formerly a stand up comedian, David went into television comedy, writing and starring in ABC's Fridays, as well as writing briefly for Saturday Night Live. David is one of the most respected and successful comedians of recent years. He was voted by other comedians as the 23rd greatest comedian of all time in the British Channel 4 The Comedian's Comedian poll. In 1989, he...
Person Curb Your Enthusiasm
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Aaron Sorkin AaronSorkin Topic Sports Night
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...
Person The West Wing
Film writer Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
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Rob Thomas   Topic Veronica Mars
Rob Thomas (born August 15 1965 in Sunnyside, Washington) is an author and screenwriter, best known for his book Rats Saw God and his television program Veronica Mars. Before he began writing novels for young adults, Thomas taught high-school journalism at John Marshall High School in San Antonio, Texas, advised the University of Texas student magazine, and worked for Channel One News; this last experience informs his novel Satellite Down. Rob played guitar or bass for, and was the primary...
Person Cupid
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Amy Sherman-Palladino   Topic Gilmore Girls
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...
Person The Return of Jezebel James
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Michael Crichton   Film director ER
John Michael Crichton, , (born October 23, 1942) is an American author, film producer, film director, medical doctor and television producer best known for his techno-thriller novels, film and television program. His books have sold over 150 million copies worldwide. His works are usually based on the action genre and heavily feature technology. Many of his future history novels have medical or scientific underpinnings, reflecting his medical training and science background. Crichton was born...
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Mitchell Hurwitz   Topic Arrested Development
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,...
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James Burrows   Topic Cheers
James Edward Burrows (born December 30 1940) is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. Burrows was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Ruth Levinson and Abe Burrows, who was a well-known composer, director and writer. He is the second cousin to the contemporary artist Jordan Wolfson. Burrows is a graduate of Oberlin College. He also went to the Yale school of drama. Burrows has directed for many shows including: Burrows directed all 194...
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Glen Charles   Topic Cheers
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...
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Les Charles   Topic Cheers
Les Charles was born in Henderson, Nevada. He attended the University of Redlands, California and earned a B.A. in English. Charles began his professional career as a high school English teacher, but moved into television. He began his television career with his brother, Glen 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....
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David Angell Davidangell Topic Frasier
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...
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Peter Casey   TV Program Creator Frasier  
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Matt Groening Topic The Simpsons
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...
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Jeffrey Lieber   Topic Lost
Jeffrey Lieber is a screenwriter for both television and film. He was born in Evanston, Illinois, United States and attended Evanston Township High School. He is credited as a co-creator of the television series Lost. Lieber is also credited on the films Tuck Everlasting and Tangled, as well as having been writer/executive producer for an unaired Fox Broadcasting Company 2004 TV pilot Hitched and is currently in production on a pilot for a series, tentatively titled "Family Practice", for Sony...
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J.J. Abrams J J Abrams 2006-02-11 Topic Lost
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...
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Damon Lindelof Damon Lindelof, 2006 Topic Lost
Damon Laurence Lindelof (born April 24 1973) is an American television writer and executive, most recently noted as the co-creator and executive producer for the hit television series Lost. He has also written and produced Crossing Jordan, and wrote for Nash Bridges, Wasteland, and the MTV anthology series Undressed. Before these, he worked reviewing scripts at Paramount, Fox, and Alan Ladd studios. Lindelof is a native of Teaneck, New Jersey, where he attended Teaneck High School, a school...
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James Duff   Topic The Closer
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.
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Max Mutchnick   Topic Will & Grace
Jason Nidorf Mutchnick (born 11 November 1965) is an American television producer. He has received an Emmy Award, a People's Choice Award, and several Golden Globe Award nominations. Mutchnick was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Beverly Hills by a single Jew mother. He got his start writing for game show and The Wonder Years. He and David Kohan created Will & Grace. He also produced and wrote for Good Morning, Miami, and produced Twins and Four Kings with Kohan. The title...
TV Program Creator Twins
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Fictional Character Creator Good Morning, Miami
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David Kohan   Topic Will & Grace
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...
TV Program Creator Twins
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Deceased Person Good Morning, Miami
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Bonnie and Terry Turner   Topic That '70s Show
Bonnie and Terry Turner are a husband-and-wife writing team, best known for creating the sitcoms Third Rock From the Sun (1996 - 2001) and That '70s Show (1998 - 2006), for NBC and FOX respectively. They also created the ill-fated spin-off That '80s Show for FOX in 2002. Their other writing credits include Saturday Night Live and Normal, Ohio.Between 1987 and 1995 they wrote/co-wrote six films, including Coneheads, Wayne's World, Tommy Boy and The Brady Bunch Movie. Bonnie and Terry were part...
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Mark Brazill   Topic That '70s Show
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...
TV Program Creator That '80s Show
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Aaron Spelling AaronSpelling Topic Beverly Hills, 90210
Aaron Spelling (April 221923 – June 232006) was an American film and television producer. As of 2007, Spelling holds the record for most prolific television producer, with 218 producer and executive producer credits. Spelling was born in Dallas, Texas, to Polish Jewish immigrant parents. At the age of eight, Spelling lost the use of his legs psychosomatic due to trauma caused by constant bullying from his schoolmates, and was confined to bed for a year. Spelling attended Forest Avenue High...
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Film writer T. J. Hooker
Film producer Hotel
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Ricky Gervais Ricky Gervais Topic The Office
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...
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