# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/bill-lawrence
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:21:10.641Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/bill-lawrence"
name: "Bill Lawrence"
slug: "bill-lawrence"
description: "William Van Duzer Lawrence IV is an American television producer, screenwriter, and director. He is the creator of the series Scrubs and co-creator of Cougar Town, Spin City, Ground Floor, Ted Lasso, Shrinking, and Rooster, as well as the animated series Clone High, in which he also voiced the leader of the shadowy figures. He has written for many other shows, including The Nanny and Boy Meets World."
tagline: "American screenwriter, producer, and director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Bill_Lawrence_at_PaleyLive_Shrinking_2024.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1968-12-06"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           57.45
  momentum:             1.28761716822891
  historical:           18.63202133333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0492639/"
    handle:    "nm0492639"
sources:
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence_(Regisseur)"
    title: "Bill Lawrence (Regisseur)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence_(TV_producer)"
    title: "Bill Lawrence (TV producer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "بیل لارنس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence"
    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence"
    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence"
    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D0%BE%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81%2C_%D0%91%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%BB"
    title: "Лоуренс, Билл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Lawrence"
    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862267"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216859"
    title: "Bill Lawrence"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump