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Richard Appel

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Writer Producer Birth date: May 21, 1963 (1963-05-21) (age 61) Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 99 Seasons active: Seasons 6 - 10 First episode: "Another Simpsons Clip Show" Most recent episode: "When You Dish Upon a Star"

Richard Appel (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer. After working as a lawyer for several years he became a writer for The Simpsons in 1994. His first episode was Season 7's "Mother Simpson". He left the show after writing "When You Dish Upon a Star". He went on to serve as executive producer on King of the Hill and The Bernie Mac Show. He is currently an executive producer on The Cleveland Show, of which he is also a co-creator.

Credits

Staff writer

Story editor

Written by

• Episode – "Mother Simpson"
• Episode – "Bart on the Road"
• Episode – "22 Short Films About Springfield"
• Episode – "Bart After Dark"
• Episode – "The Secret War of Lisa Simpson"
• Episode – "The Two Mrs. Nahasapeemapetilons"
• Episode – "When You Dish Upon a Star"

Producer

Co-executive producer

Consulting producer

• Episode – "All Singing, All Dancing"
• Episode – "The Joy of Sect"

Trivia

• At the time Appel wrote "Mother Simpson", he was married to the novelist Mona Simpson. He named Homer's mother Mona after her.

External links

• Richard Appel at the Internet Movie Database
• Richard Appel at Wikipedia