# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/david-richardson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T04:35:05.137Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/david-richardson"
name: "David Richardson"
slug: "david-richardson"
description: "David Wayne Richardson was an American television writer and producer who wrote for The Simpsons, Malcolm in the Middle, Two and a Half Men, and F Is for Family. Richardson, a cancer survivor for nearly thirty years, died of heart failure in early 2021."
tagline: "American screenwriter, born 1955"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1955-12-24"
deathDate: "2021-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           40.03
  momentum:             0.5084745762711864
  historical:           6.342441333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724491/"
    handle:    "nm0724491"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(writer)"
    title: "David Richardson (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%AF_%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86_(%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%A8)"
    title: "ديفيد ريتشاردسون (كاتب)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(scen%C3%A1rista)"
    title: "David Richardson (scenárista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson_(writer)"
    title: "David Richardson (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson"
    title: "David Richardson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson"
    title: "David Richardson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Richardson"
    title: "David Richardson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3018693"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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