James O'Brien

James O'Brien

Crew Information Gender: Male ♂ Job: Character layout artist Animation timer Assistant director Birth date: July 27, 1971 Death date: July 26, 2005 (aged 33) Status: Inactive Number of episodes: 37 Seasons active: Seasons 8 - 17 First episode: "Treehouse of Horror VII" Most recent episode: "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"

James Matthew "Jamie" O'Brien (July 27, 1971 - July 26, 2005) was an American animator. He served as a character layout artist, animation timer and assistant director for The Simpsons. The episode "The Girl Who Slept Too Little" was dedicated to him.

Credits

Character layout

THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VII" Episode – "Bart After Dark" Episode – "My Sister, My Sitter" Episode – "The Canine Mutiny" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror VIII" Episode – "Bart Carny" Episode – "Lisa the Simpson" Episode – "Girly Edition" Episode – "Brother's Little Helper" THOH – "Treehouse of Horror X" Episode – "Little Big Mom" Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses" Episode – "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes" Episode – "Day of the Jackanapes" Episode – "Homer the Moe" Episode – "Sweets and Sour Marge" Episode – "The Old Man and the Key" Episode – "The Frying Game" Episode – "Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade" Episode – "The Great Louse Detective" Episode – "A Star Is Born Again" Episode – "The Regina Monologues" Episode – "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-bot" Episode – "The Wandering Juvie" Episode – "All's Fair in Oven War" Episode – "Sleeping with the Enemy" Episode – "Pranksta Rap"

Animation timer

• Episode – "Brother's Little Helper"
• Episode – "The Mansion Family"
• Episode – "Days of Wine and D'oh'ses"
• Episode – "Brawl in the Family"

Additional timer

• Episode – "The Parent Rap"

Assistant director

• Episode – "D'oh-in' in the Wind"
• Episode – "The Old Man and the 'C' Student"
• Episode – "HOMЯ"
• Episode – "Trilogy of Error"
• Episode – "Dude, Where's My Ranch?"
• Episode – "Mobile Homer"
• Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"

In loving memory of

• Episode – "The Girl Who Slept Too Little"

External links

• James O'Brien at the Internet Movie Database

Deceased crew and guest stars

Cast Christopher Collins • Doris Grau • Phil Hartman • Christian Coffinet • Marcia Wallace • Russi Taylor Crew Michael O'Connor • Michael P. Schoenbrun • Robert Glass • Ray Johnson, Jr. • Thomas Chastain • Jackie Banks • Constantin Mustatea • Tom Coppola • Ed DeMattia • Andy Houts • Phyllis Craig • Sunni Walton • Art Seidel‎ • Lee Mishkin • Kent Holaday • Ted Bemiller • Barrington T. Bunce • James O'Brien • Daria Paris • Ron Scalera • Kevyn L. Wallace • Maxine Markota • Don Payne • Richard Lorenzana • Betty Chaplin • Steve Viksten • Don Vanderbeek • Paul Gruwell • Harold M. Schulweis • Chris Moeller • Danny Taverna • Sam Simon • Cliff Voorhees • Richard Manginsay • Ray Colcord • Gary Hoffman • Julia Kalantarova • Kevin Curran • Sooan Kim • Merle Welton • Rochelle Linder • Arthur B. Rubinstein • Jerry Richardson • Lolee Aries • Patrick Williams • Domingo Rivera • Trista H. Navarro • Chris Reccardi • Dennis Snee • Ernesto Elicanal • J. Michael Mendel • Marsha Kramer • Maureen Mlynarczyk • Cullen Blaine • Tuck Tucker • Alan Decker • Brenda Banks • Dale Baer • David Richardson • Marc Wilmore • Rick Bowman • Edwin E. Aguilar • Marko Barrows • Frank Mula • Mike Camarillo • David Schwartz • Ian Wilcox • Trixie Flynn • Terry Harrington • Ron Zimmerman • Laurie Hanson • Jeff Howard • Ralph Eggleston • Jennifer Dolce • Chris Ledesma • Susan Burke • Anne Luiting • Bike Kinzle • Craig Armstrong • Istvan Majoros • John Bush • Sue Bielenberg • Brian McConnachie • Reid Harrison Comic crew Ed Roth • Dan DeCarlo • Al Williamson • Gene Colan • Earl Kress • John Severin • George Gladir • Stan Goldberg • Murphy Anderson • Lemmy • Gary Glasberg • Dan Spiegle • Bernie Wrightson • Carolyn Kelly • Len Wein • Batton Lash • Dan Nakrosis • Oscar González Loyo • Chris Yambar • Ramona Fradon Video game crew Tom D. Heidt • Bill Williams • W. Marshall Rogers Album crew Billie Holiday • Curt Ousley • Arthur Herzog, Jr. • David Cole • Floyd Cramer • Lew McCreary • David Frisina • Harold Dicterow • Terry Harrington • Myra Kestenbaum • Mike Rubin • Jon Clarke • Gene Morford • Michael Botts • John Thomas Johnson • Dorothy Wade • Richard Joseph • Larry Corbett • Don Palmer • Ben Keith • Ronni Chasen • Harris Goldman • Armen Garabedian • Israel Baker • Andrew Gold • Warren Luening • Bernard Kundell • B. B. King • Jimmy Levine • Chuck Berry • Isabelle Daskoff • Dell Hake • Roger Neumann • Gary Stewart • Dr. John • Tommy Morgan • Vincent DeRosa • Michael Lang Guest stars Theodore Roosevelt • Franklin D. Roosevelt • Gene Lockhart • John F. Kennedy • Rex Harrison • Richard Nixon • John Megna • Audrey Meadows • George Fenneman • Linda McCartney • Anthony Newley‎‎ • Jim Varney • Tito Puente • Steve Allen • Joe C. • Werner Klemperer • Joey Ramone • Jack Lemmon • George Harrison • Ron Taylor • Lawrence Tierney • Stephen Jay Gould • John Entwistle • Rod Steiger • Chick Hearn • Johnny Unitas • Gregory Peck • Barry White • Bob Hope • Johnny Cash • George Plimpton • Paul Winfield • Isabel Sanford • Johnny Ramone • Rodney Dangerfield • Johnny Carson • Johnnie Cochran • Henry Corden • Anne Bancroft • Bob Denver • Dennis Weaver • James Brown • Tom Poston • Robert Goulet • George Carlin • Paul Newman • Eartha Kitt • Patrick McGoohan • John Updike • Ed McMahon • Michael Jackson • Gary Coleman • Robert Schimmel • Jack LaLanne • Elizabeth Taylor • Clarence Clemons • Charles Napier • Joe Frazier • Harry Morgan • Tom Ardolino • Dick Tufeld • Dick Clark • Ernest Borgnine • Gore Vidal • Marvin Hamlisch • Neil Armstrong • Larry Hagman • Huell Howser • Pat Summerall • Joyce Brothers • Cory Monteith • Allen Lanier • Tom Clancy • Mickey Rooney • Don Pardo • Joan Rivers • Jan Hooks • Leonard Nimoy • Alex Rocco • Merl Reagle • Daryl Coley • Garry Marshall • Fyvush Finkel • Janet Reno • Adam West • Jack Ong • Martin Landau • June Foray • Jerry Lewis • Hugh Hefner • Tom Petty • Ray Thomas • John Mahoney • Stephen Hawking • R. Lee Ermey • Carl Kasell • Tom Wolfe • Anthony Bourdain • Harlan Ellison • Stan Lee • Ricky Jay • Penny Marshall • Luke Perry • Tim Conway • Valerie Harper • Robert Forster • Robert Evans • Jack Sheldon • John Baldessari • Jack Burns • Kirk Douglas • James Lipton • Max von Sydow • Little Richard • Fred Willard • Regis Philbin • Alex Trebek • David Lander • Larry King • Cloris Leachman • George Segal • Olympia Dukakis • Jackie Mason • Ed Asner • Graeme Edge • Stephen Sondheim • John Madden • Betty White • Peter Bogdanovich • Maggy Reno Hurchalla • Ray Liotta • James Caan • Nichelle Nichols • David Crosby • Sal Bando • Bill Saluga • Jerry Springer • Treat Williams • Tony Bennett • William Friedkin • Suzanne Somers • Matthew Perry • Frances Sternhagen • Norman Lear • Tom Smothers • Richard Lewis • Donald Sutherland • Martin Mull • Bob Newhart • James Earl Jones • Elwood Edwards Other Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle • James Sanderson • Sarah Adams • Edgar Allan Poe • Lowell Mason • Ruggero Leoncavallo • Richard Strauss • Cole Porter • Paul Webster • Bob Harris • Elsie Castellaneta • Dora K. Warren • Alan Gordon • Daryl Gates • Robert Reno • Hal David • Rusty Nails • Csaba Varga • Louis Castellaneta • András Erkel • Herb Trimpe • David Kavner • George H. W. Bush • Double K • Dusty Hill • David Davis • Burt Bacharach • Morgan Spurlock • Ruth Westheimer