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James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is a producer, writer, and film director.

He is best known for producing classic TV shows like The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Simpsons, Rhoda, Taxi, and The Tracey Ullman Show. His best-known film is his directorial debut, Terms of Endearment, for which he received three Academy Awards in 1984. He has also voiced himself in the episode "A Star Is Born-Again".

Biography

James L. Brooks was raised in a Jewish family in Brooklyn, New York. Brooks began his television career as a writer for CBS News from 1964 to 1966. After working for the ABC television series Room 222 as executive story editor, Brooks was hired along with writing partner Allan Burns by television executive Grant Tinker to create a show that would later become The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

The Mary Tyler Moore Show became a critical and commercial success and spawned other television shows created by Brooks and Burns such as Rhoda, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Taxi, The Associates, and Lou Grant.

In 1978, Brooks began work on feature motion films. His first project was being writer and co-producer on the film Starting Over and later wrote, produced, and directed Terms of Endearment in 1983.

Brooks later started his own film and television production company, Gracie Films, in 1984. Gracie Films would produce the television series The Tracey Ullman Show and its spin-off, The Simpsons. He also produced the Jon Lovitz animated series The Critic. Gracie Films's notable film productions were Jerry Maguire, As Good as It Gets, Bottle Rocket, and Broadcast News.

Brooks had a cameo in the The Simpsons episode "A Star Is Born-Again". He also played a semi-fictional version of himself in friend Albert Brooks' comedy Modern Romance as an opinionated film director.

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Noted filmography

  • Spanglish (2004) (director)
  • As Good as It Gets (1997) (director)
  • Jerry Maguire (1996) (producer)
  • Bottle Rocket (1996) (producer)
  • The Critic (1994) (executive producer)
  • The Simpsons (1989) (executive producer)
  • Say Anything... (1989) (producer)
  • Big (1988) (producer)
  • Broadcast News (1987) (director)
  • The Tracey Ullman Show (1987) (producer)
  • Terms of Endearment (1983) (director)
  • Taxi (1978) (producer)
  • Rhoda (1974) (producer
  • The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) (producer)
  • The Andy Griffith Show (1960)
  • My Three Sons (1960)

Trivia

  • Brooks was well known for being in the studio audience of many shows that he produced in the mid 70s. Viewers can usually tell whether Brooks was in the audience by his distinctive loud guffaw. He would also make an occasional uncredited cameo appearance.
  • Brooks was a producer in the 1989 film War of the Roses, which Dan Castellaneta appeared in. This marked the first time a producer and actor worked on a project together outside of The Simpsons.
  • In the Treehouse of Horror specials, he is commonly known as James "Hell" Brooks.

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