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American television show creators

  • Simon KinbergSimon David Kinberg arrived in Hammersmith, London, on the 2nd of August 1973. His parents were American citizens who moved him to Los Angeles when he was…
  • David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
  • Kevin SmithKevin Patrick Smith was born on the 2nd of August 1970, in Red Bank, New Jersey. He grew up in the nearby clamming town of Highlands as the son of Grace and…
  • Stephen ColbertOn the 11th of September 1974, a ten-year-old boy named Stephen Colbert stood in the living room of his family home on James Island.
  • Jim HensonJames Maury Henson was born on the 24th of September 1936, in Greenville, Mississippi. He grew up as the younger of two children to Betty Marcella and Paul…
  • Lucille BallLucille Désirée Ball was born on Sunday, the 6th of August 1911, at 69 Stewart Avenue in Jamestown, New York. Her father Henry Durrell Ball worked as a…
  • Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine. His family moved to the United States in 1939 and settled in the…
  • Walt DisneyWalter Elias Disney was born on the 5th of December 1901 at 1249 Tripp Avenue in Chicago's Hermosa neighborhood. He moved to a farm in Marceline, Missouri…
  • David LettermanDavid Michael Letterman was born on the 12th of April 1947 in Indianapolis, Indiana. His father worked as a florist and his mother served as a church…
  • Conan O'BrienConan Christopher O'Brien was born on the 18th of April 1963, in Brookline, Massachusetts. His father Thomas Francis O'Brien worked as a physician and…
  • J. J. AbramsOn a day in 1982, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams composed the music for a horror movie called Nightbeast. He was only sixteen years old when he wrote that score.
  • ND StevensonNate Diana Stevenson was born Noelle Diana Stevenson on the 31st of December 1991, in Columbia, South Carolina. He grew up as the third of five siblings in a…
  • Damon LindelofDamon Laurence Lindelof arrived in the world on the 24th of April 1973. He grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, as the son of Susan Klausner and David Herbert…
  • Michael CrichtonJohn Michael Crichton was born on the 23rd of October 1942, in Chicago, Illinois. He grew up in Roslyn, New York, where he walked to school and rode his bike…
  • Lorne MichaelsLorne David Lipowitz entered the world on the 17th of November 1944 in Toronto, Ontario. His parents were Florence and Abraham Lipowitz, a man who worked as…
  • D. B. WeissDaniel Brett Weiss was born on the 23rd of April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. His family background traces back to Jewish roots with ancestral lines extending…
  • David BenioffDavid Friedman entered the world on the 25th of September 1970, in New York City. He grew up as the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with…
  • Joss WhedonJoseph Hill Whedon was born on the 23rd of June 1964 in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side as part of a family deeply embedded in television…
  • The Duffer BrothersMatt Duffer and Ross Duffer were born on the 15th of February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina. They began making films in the third grade using a Hi8 video…
  • Jon FavreauJonathan Kolia Favreau was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, on the 19th of October 1966. He grew up as the only child of Madeleine, an elementary school…
  • Beau WillimonPack Beauregard Willimon was born on the 26th of October 1977 in Alexandria, Virginia. His father served as a captain in the United States Navy and moved the…