James L. Brooks
TV Writer
1940 –
Who is James L. Brooks?
James Lawrence "Jim" Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter. Growing up in North Bergen, New Jersey, Brooks endured a fractured family life and passed the time by reading and writing. After dropping out of New York University, he got a job as an usher at CBS, going on to write for the CBS News broadcasts. He moved to Los Angeles in 1965 to work on David L. Wolper's documentaries. After being laid off he met producer Allan Burns who secured him a job as a writer on the series My Mother the Car.
Brooks wrote for several shows before being hired as a story editor on My Friend Tony and later created the series Room 222. Grant Tinker hired Brooks and Burns at MTM Productions to create The Mary Tyler Moore Show in 1970. The show, one of the first to feature an independent working woman as its lead character, was critically acclaimed and won Brooks several Primetime Emmy Awards. Brooks and Burns then created two successful spin-offs from Mary Tyler Moore in the shape of Rhoda and Lou Grant. Brooks left MTM Productions in 1978 to co-create the sitcom Taxi which, despite winning multiple Emmys, suffered from low ratings and was canceled twice.
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- Born
- May 9, 1940
Brooklyn - Also known as
- James Brooks
- Jim Brooks
- James L Brooks
- Chains Hell Brooks
- James 'Bemused but Bloodthirsty' Brooks
- The Truth is Unknowable' Brooks James 'Ha-Ha
- James L. 'What Isn't Scary?' Brooks
- Maims Hell Brooks
- James 'I'm Scared in Real Life' Brooks
- James Hell Brooks
- Parents
- Siblings
- Spouses
- Holly Holmberg Brooks
(1978/07/23 - 1999) - Marianne Catherine Morrissey
(1964/07/07 - 1972/03)
- Holly Holmberg Brooks
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- New York University
- Weehawken High School
- Lived in
- Brooklyn
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on July 23, 2013
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