# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/don-payne
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:34:22.809Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/don-payne"
name: "Don Payne"
slug: "don-payne"
description: "William Donald Payne was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The duo began their careers writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. Payne later moved into writing feature films, including My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006), and co-wrote Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2007), Thor (2011) and its sequel Thor: The Dark World (2013). Payne died from heart failure caused by bone cancer in March 2013."
tagline: "American screenwriter and film producer (1964-2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/DonPayneJuly08.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1964-05-05"
deathDate: "2013-03-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.13
  momentum:             3.689217758985201
  historical:           11.37995333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0668309/"
    handle:    "nm0668309"
sources:
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    title: "唐·佩恩"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne_(writer)"
    title: "Don Payne (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne"
    title: "Don Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "دن پاین (نویسنده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne"
    title: "Don Payne"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne_(sceneggiatore)"
    title: "Don Payne (sceneggiatore)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ドン・ペイン"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne_(schrijver)"
    title: "Don Payne (schrijver)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Payne_(writer)"
    title: "Don Payne (writer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "டான் பெய்ன்"
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    title: "Don Payne"
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  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2502683"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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