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1989-2022
The Simpsons
(TV Series short) (developed by - 731 episodes)
2007
The Simpsons Movie
(based on the television series "The Simpsons" developed by - uncredited) / (screenplay)
The Tracey Ullman Show
(TV Series) (created by - 80 episodes, 1987 - 1990) (written by - 5 episodes, 1987 - 1990)
Taxi
(TV Series) (created by - 114 episodes, 1978 - 1983) (written by - 1 episode, 1978)
1977-1982
Lou Grant
(TV Series) (created by - 114 episodes)
Rhoda
(TV Series) (created by - 109 episodes, 1974 - 1978) (written by - 1 episode, 1974)
1978
Cindy
(TV Movie) (written by)
1975-1977
Phyllis
(TV Series) (based on a character created by - 48 episodes)
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Dan's Ex
(1977)
... (based on a character created by)
Room 222
(TV Series) (created by - 113 episodes, 1969 - 1974) (written by - 1 episode, 1969)
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MPG
(1973)
... (creator)
1966-1967
That Girl
(TV Series) (written by - 3 episodes)
1989-2022
The Simpsons
(TV Series short) (executive producer - 716 episodes)
What About Joan
(TV Series) (producer - 20 episodes, 2000 - 2001) (executive producer - 1 episode, 2001)
1994-2001
The Critic
(TV Series) (executive producer - 33 episodes)
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Broadway
(2001)
... (executive producer)
1993-1994
Phenom
(TV Series) (executive producer - 22 episodes)
1991
Sibs
(TV Series) (executive producer - 1 episode)
1978-1983
Taxi
(TV Series) (executive producer - 114 episodes)
1979-1980
The Associates
(TV Series) (executive producer - 2 episodes)
1978
Cindy
(TV Movie) (producer)
1977-1978
Lou Grant
(TV Series) (executive producer - 22 episodes)
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Physical
(1978)
... (executive producer)
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Poison
(1978)
... (executive producer)
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Spies
(1978)
... (executive producer)
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Scandal
(1978)
... (executive producer)
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Sect
(1978)
... (executive producer)
1974-1977
Rhoda
(TV Series) (executive producer - 72 episodes)
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Nose Job
(1977)
... (executive producer)
1989-2022
The Simpsons
(TV Series short) (executive creative consultant - 714 episodes)
1994-2001
The Critic
(TV Series) (executive creative consultant - 29 episodes)
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Broadway
(2001)
... (executive creative consultant)
1993-1994
Phenom
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 22 episodes)
1991
Sibs
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 1 episode)
Taxi
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 66 episodes, 1978 - 1981) (executive creative consultant - 42 episodes, 1981 - 1983)
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Tony's Baby
(1983)
... (executive creative consultant)
1979-1980
The Associates
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 2 episodes)
1978-1979
Lou Grant
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 24 episodes)
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Romance
(1979)
... (executive consultant)
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Skids
(1979)
... (executive consultant)
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Bomb
(1979)
... (executive consultant)
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Marathon
(1979)
... (executive consultant)
Rhoda
(TV Series) (executive consultant - 37 episodes, 1977 - 1978) (story editor - 1 episode, 1974)
1978
Cindy
(TV Movie) (creative consultant)
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Actor (7 credits)
1974
Rhoda
(TV Series)
Subway Passenger
The Simpsons
(TV Series short) (lyrics - 2 episodes, 2015 - 2017) (writer - 2 episodes, 2015 - 2017)
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Pork and Burns
(2017)
... (lyrics: "Spider Pig" - uncredited) / (writer: "Spider Pig" - uncredited)
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Puffless
(2015)
... (lyrics: "Spider Pig" - uncredited) / (writer: "Spider Pig" - uncredited)
2007
The Simpsons Movie
(lyrics: "Spider Pig", "Springfield Anthem") / (writer: "Spider Pig", "Springfield Anthem")
2014
Family Guy
(TV Series) (special thanks - 1 episode)
2011
50/50
(special thanks)
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Self (66 credits)
2011
America in Primetime
(TV Series documentary)
Self - Creator, Taxi / Self - Executive Producer, The Simpsons / Self - Co-Creator, The Mary Tyler Moore Show
2001-2004
HBO First Look
(TV Series documentary short)
Self / Self - Producer
2000-2004
Biography
(TV Series documentary)
Self
1986
One Voice
(TV Special)
Self - Audience Member (uncredited)
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Personal Details
Other Works:
In 1972, he produced an unsold comedy anthology pilot called "The Class of '55", which would show what happened to the graduates of a fictional college seventeen years after the fact. The pilot starred
Alan Alda and
Louise Lasser.
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Publicity Listings:
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Alternate Names:
Chains Hell Brooks | James "Your Terror is Appropriate" Brooks | James 'Barr the Teddy Bear' Brooks | James 'Bemused But Bloodthirsty' Brooks | James 'Bemused but Bloodthirsty' Brooks | James 'Dangerous Though Cuddly' Brooks | James 'Even More Dangerous Than He Looks' Brooks | James 'Give Me Gluten!' Brooks | James 'Ha-Ha The Truth is Unknowable' Brooks | James 'Ha-Ha the Truth Is Unknowable' Brooks | James 'Haha The Devil Bought Facebook' Brooks | James 'Haha the Devil Bought Facebook' Brooks | James 'I Refuse to Scare You Any Further Than You Are' Brooks | James 'I'm Scared in Real Life' Brooks | James 'I'm Scarier Than Kavanaugh' Brooks | James 'I'm Voting For The Candidate You're Most Scared Of' Brooks | James 'Just One Hug' Brooks | James 'The Tooth Fairy Is a Criminal' Brooks | James 'The Tooth Fairy is a Criminal' Brooks | James 'What's Grim About the Reaper?' Brooks | James 'You Have No Idea How Much You Frighten Me' Brooks | James 'You're Scared Enough' Brooks | James 'Your Scared Enough' Brooks | James 'Your Terror is Appropriate' Brooks | James Hell Brooks | James L. "I'm Thinking of You Naked" Brooks | James L. 'I Refuse to Scare You Any Further Than You Are" Brooks | James L. 'I Refuse to Scare You Any Further Than You Are' Brooks | James L. 'I'm Thinking of You Naked' Brooks | James L. 'What Isn't Scary?' Brooks | James L Brooks | James Brooks | Jim Brooks | Maims Hell Brooks | Veins Hell Brooks | The Truth is Unknowable' Brooks James 'Ha-Ha
Height:
6' 1" (1.85 m)
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Personal Quote:
While you're doing it, it is sort of a lonely kind of feeling, even though you are surrounded by so many people giving beyond the call. That's generally true of movies, there's a sense of urgency, people risking their tail, people working past exhaustion. That's what moviemaking is. It's lonely because you asked all of them to work that hard for this idea you had.
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Trivia:
His laughter is heard in the studio audience of many shows he produced, especially
Taxi (1978), in which his laughter is heard through all five seasons. It appears louder than any of the other audience members, sounding like a "Haw", sustaining the "Aw" sound.
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Nickname:
Jim