# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-appel
# Generated: 2026-09-01T02:56:03.282Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-appel"
name: "Richard Appel"
slug: "richard-appel"
description: "Richard James Appel is an American writer, producer and former attorney. Since 2012, he has served as an executive producer and co-showrunner of Family Guy on Fox. He attended Harvard University and Harvard Law School. As an undergraduate, he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon."
tagline: "American writer and producer (born 1963)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Family_Guy_panel_at_NYCC_(61261).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1963-05-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump