# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-reaves
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:22:45.727Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-reaves"
name: "Michael Reaves"
slug: "michael-reaves"
description: "James Michael Reaves was an American writer, known for his contributions as a script writer and story editor to a number of 1980s and 1990s animated television series, including Gargoyles and Batman: The Animated Series. He has also written media tie-in novels, children's books, and original fiction. His work was often done collaboratively, notably with his then-wife Brynne Stephens, and with Steve Perry, Neil Gaiman, Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, and his daughter Mallory Reaves for various novels. Reaves won a 1993 Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in an Animated Program for his work on Batman: The Animated Series."
tagline: "American writer and screenwriter (1950–2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/James_Michael_Reaves.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1950-09-14"
deathDate: "2023-03-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.77
  momentum:             0
  historical:           11.18830533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0714184/"
    handle:    "nm0714184"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://www.michaelreaves.com:80/"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/8a41cf00-c3f1-40ff-84d0-96009d82b41e"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D0%B8%D0%B2%D0%B7%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB"
    title: "Ривз, Майкл"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D1%96%D0%B2%D0%B7"
    title: "Майкл Рівз"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikiquote.org/wiki/Michael_Reaves"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1191315"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/34938"
    title: "Michael Reaves"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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