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David Mirkin (born
September 18,
1955 in
Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania) is an
American feature film and
television director,
writer and
producer. He is a native of
Philadelphia and an alumnus of
Loyola Marymount University. He has won several Emmys along with the prestigious
Peabody Award.
His first job writing for television was on the American version
Three's Company. Mirkin walked away from the experience with a brand new cat, taken from one of the episodes. He named the cat T.C., short for "
Televised
Cat" and
Three's Company.
Mirkin was the executive script supervisor and writer for the popular television show
Newhart from 1982 to 1990. In the early 1990s, Mirkin created an unusual television series with
comedian Chris Elliott, entitled
Get a Life, which he also usually wrote and directed. That show only lasted a couple of seasons, but has a loyal following of fans to this day.
He also wrote an unsuccessful pilot with
Julie Brown and Charlie Coffey entitled
The Julie Show, starring co-creator Brown. It wasn't picked up for the fall season. The trio also collaborated on the short-lived
FOX Network sketch comedy show
The Edge from 1992 to 1993.
Mirkin was the executive producer/showrunner for the popular animated series,
The Simpsons during its fifth and sixth seasons (1993 – 1995). He wrote the episode
Deep Space Homer, in which Homer and Barney are recruited by
NASA. Many of his episodes (10) are written by
John Swartzwelder, for whom he expresses much admiration on the DVD commentaries. Mirkin also states on the
Simpsons DVDs that his favorite movie is
The Graduate and that he was very happy to get
Anne Bancroft to provide a guest voice for the episode
Fear of Flying.
To this day Mirkin works part time for the show, helping with the re-write process. He also was the executive producer for two episodes in the ninth season of The Simpsons ("
The Joy of Sect" and "
All Singing, All Dancing") He was also one of 11 writers who worked on
The Simpsons Movie.
In a 2008 episode of The Simpsons ("
That 90's Show), David Mirkin is listed as the director of the music video "Margerine", in which Homer sings of his love for his then-estranged girlfriend, Marge.
From 1992 to 1998, Mirkin was one of several directors for the
HBO series,
The Larry Sanders Show.
Mirkin also directed two successful feature films
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) starring
Lisa Kudrow and
Mira Sorvino and
Heartbreakers (2001) starring
Sigourney Weaver,
Gene Hackman and
Jennifer Love Hewitt He also directed the
James Taylor video "Enough to be on Your Way".
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