Mark Kirkland

Mark Kirkland

Crew Information

Gender:	Male
Job:	Director/Supervising Director
Status:	Active
Number of episodes:	92
First episode:	"Dancin' Homer"
Most recent episode:	"Homer Scissorhands"

Mark Kirkland is a long-time animation director on the series who currently serves as supervising director. He is the son of Douglas Kirkland. He has directed the most Simpsons episodes, a total of 92.

Credits

Director

Episode – "Dancin' Homer" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Bart Gets Hit by a Car"
Episode – "Principal Charming"
Episode – "The War of the Simpsons"
Episode – "Homer Defined" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk"
Episode – "Homer Alone"
Episode – "Colonel Homer"
Episode – "Kamp Krusty"
Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Lisa's First Word"
Episode – "Last Exit to Springfield"
Episode – "Homer's Barbershop Quartet"
Episode – "Marge on the Lam" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Homer and Apu"
Episode – "Burns' Heir"
Episode – "Lisa's Rival"
Episode – "Sideshow Bob Roberts" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Fear of Flying"
Episode – "Homer vs. Patty & Selma"
Episode – "The Springfield Connection"
Episode – "Lisa the Vegetarian" (also storyboarder)
Episode – "Team Homer"
Episode – "A Fish Called Selma"
Episode – "Summer of 4 Ft. 2"
Episode – "The Homer They Fall"
Episode – "Mountain of Madness"
Episode – "The Old Man and the Lisa"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" as "Mad Dog Kirkland"
Episode – "Bart Carny"
Episode – "Girly Edition"
Episode – "The Wizard of Evergreen Terrace"
Episode – "D'oh-in in the Wind" (with Matthew Nastuk)
Episode – "Marge Simpson in: "Screaming Yellow Honkers""
Episode – "The Old Man and the "C" Student"
Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
Episode – "Little Big Mom"
Episode – "Pygmoelian"
Episode – "Behind the Laughter"
Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
Episode – "Simpson Safari"
Episode – "The Parent Rap"
Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge"
Episode – "Gump Roast"
Episode – "Helter Shelter"
Episode – "The Dad Who Knew Too Little"
Episode – "Three Gays of the Condo"
Episode – "The Regina Monologues"
Episode – "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife"
Episode – "My Big Fat Geek Wedding"
Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War"
Episode – "Mommie Beerest"
Episode – "Bonfire of the Manatees"
Episode – "The Italian Bob"
Episode – "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore"
Episode – "Moe 'N' a Lisa"
Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (also as supervising director)
Episode – "That '90s Show" (also as supervising director
Episode – "The Burns and the Bees"
Episode – "No Loan Again, Naturally"
Episode – "Bart Gets a 'Z'"
Episode – "Postcards from the Wedge"
Episode – "The Squirt and the Whale"
Episode – "Elementary School Musical"
Episode – "Homer the Father"
Episode – "Homer Scissorhands"
Episode – "Replaceable You"

Supervising director

Episode – "Kill Gil, Volumes I & II"
Episode – "The Wife Aquatic"
Episode – "Revenge is a Dish Best Served Three Times"
Episode – "Stop or My Dog Will Shoot"
Episode – "He Loves to Fly and He D'ohs" (also as director)
Episode – "The Homer of Seville"
Episode – "Midnight Towboy"
Episode – "I Don't Wanna Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XVIII" as "Mark 'Maniac' Kirkland"
Episode – "Little Orphan Millie"
Episode – "Husbands and Knives"
Episode – "Funeral for a Fiend"
Episode – "Eternal Moonshine of the Simpson Mind"
Episode – "E. Pluribus Wiggum"
Episode – "That '90s Show" (also as director)
Episode – "Love, Springfieldian Style"
Episode – "The Debarted"
Episode – "Dial 'N' for Nerder"
Episode – "Smoke on the Daughter"
Episode – "Papa Don't Leech"
Episode – "Apocalypse Cow"
Episode – "Any Given Sundance"
Episode – "Mona Leaves-a"
Episode – "Double, Double, Boy in Trouble"
THOH – "Treehouse of Horror XIX" as "Mad Dog Kirkland"

Storyboarder

Episode – "Dancin' Homer" (also director)
Episode – "Homer Defined" (also director)
Episode – "Lisa the Beauty Queen" (also director)
Episode – "Marge on the Lam" (also director)

Notes

At the time "D'oh-in' in the Wind" was being produced, Kirkland was going through a divorce, so Matthew Nastuk took over the directorial duties for the first act.

External links

Mark Kirkland at the Internet Movie Database
Mark Kirkland at Wikipedia

Directors

view • talk • edit • past Current directors
Bob Anderson • Timothy Bailey • Chris Clements • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Matthew Faughnan • Lance Kramer • Debbie Bruce Mahan • Steven Dean Moore • Matthew Nastuk • Rob Oliver • Mike Frank Polcino

view • talk • edit • past Former directors
Neil Affleck • Mike B. Anderson • Wes Archer • Carlos Baeza • Brad Bird • Kent Butterworth • Susie Dietter • Milton Gray • Jen Kamerman • Mark Kirkland • Nancy Kruse • Jeffrey Lynch • Lauren MacMullan • Michael Marcantel • Pete Michels • Jennifer Moeller • Rich Moore • Raymond S. Persi • Dominic Polcino • Jim Reardon • Matthew Schofield • Swinton O. Scott III • Chuck Sheetz • David Silverman • Ralph Sosa

view • talk • edit • past One time directors
Shaun Cashman • Sang-Yong Eom • Klay Hall • Eric Koenig • Alan Smart • Gregg Vanzo

view • talk • edit • past Supervising directors
Mike B. Anderson • Dominic Bianchi • Mark Kirkland • Pete Michels • James Purdum • Jim Reardon • David Silverman

view • talk • edit • past Second unit directors
Timothy Bailey • Oscar Cervantes • Gabriel DeFrancesco • Karen Carnegie Johnson • Eric Koenig • Lance Kramer • Drew McPhail • Jennifer Moeller • Rob Oliver • Matthew Schofield • Shane K. Sowell

view • talk • edit • past Other directors
Bill Brown • Stephen Chiodo • Sylvain Chomet • Guillermo del Toro • Bernard Derriman • David Green • Jorge R. Gutierrez • John Harvatine IV • Garry Kitchen • Selina Mehta • Juan Meza-León • Chris Palmer • Bill Plympton • John Rice • Paul Robertson • Hal Rushton • Peter Shin • Bartek Socha • Jakob Socha • Jakub Socha • Kuba Socha • Michał Socha • Morgan Spurlock • Eric Towner