Director

Don Payne

Writing

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 8

TMDB ID: 20401

IMDb ID: nm0668309

Known for: Writing

Born: May 5, 1964

Died: March 26, 2013

Age: 48

Place of birth: Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1989 - 2013

Years active: 25

Average TMDB rating: 6.42

Wikidata: Q2502683

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Biography

William Donald Payne (May 5, 1964–March 26, 2013) 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Don Payne (writer), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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