# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/pete-michels
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:49:20.088Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/pete-michels"
name: "Pete Michels"
slug: "pete-michels"
description: "Peter John Michels is an American animation director who is the supervising director for the animated series Krapopolis (2023–present) on Fox. Prior, he was a supervising director on seasons 1 and 2 of Rick and Morty, an animation and supervising director on Family Guy, and supervising director of the short-lived TV show Kid Notorious. He started working on The Simpsons in 1990 as a background layout and character layout artist, and eventually became a director with a dozen \"Simpsons\" episodes to his name. He has also been a director on Rugrats, Skylander Academy, and Disney's FutureWorm."
tagline: "Animation director"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/2aGKvszKBp5eaPjpFQICN50UWlA.jpg"
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: "1964-12-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.62
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.879518666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0585086/"
    handle:    "nm0585086"
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Michels"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1754329"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/53215"
    title: "Pete Michels"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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