# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-frink
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:46:30.359Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-frink"
name: "John Frink"
slug: "john-frink"
description: "John Frink is an American television writer and producer. He has written several episodes of the American animated sitcom The Simpsons, many of which he co-wrote with his former writing partner Don Payne. Frink and Payne started their career in television writing for the short-lived sitcom Hope and Gloria. They wrote their first episode of The Simpsons in 2000, and Frink still works on the show as a writer and executive producer."
tagline: "Writer"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1964-05-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.13
  momentum:             9.209815202231521
  historical:           8.764365333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0295791/"
    handle:    "nm0295791"
sources:
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%86%D9%83"
    title: "جون فرينك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D8%B1%DB%8C%D9%86%DA%A9"
    title: "جان فرینک"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Frink"
    title: "John Frink"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2741850"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

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