Jim Vallely | |
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Born | James Vallely August 30, 1954 East Brunswick, New Jersey, United States |
Occupation(s) | Television producer and writer |
Years active | 1980–present |
Spouse | Myra Turley |
Children | Tannis Vallely |
James Vallely [1] [2] [3] (born August 30, 1954) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He has written and produced for The Golden Girls , Two and a Half Men , My Wife and Kids , The John Larroquette Show , and Ladies Man, [4] as well as Arrested Development , a multiple Emmy Award-winning television show on the Fox network. Valley was an executive producer and co-creator of Running Wilde , also on Fox, along with Mitchell Hurwitz and Will Arnett.
His work on Arrested Development won him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild Of America Award.
Vallely grew up in East Brunswick Township, New Jersey, graduating from East Brunswick High School in 1972. [4] He attended both Middlesex County College and New York University, and later moved to California in 1982. He wrote for a number of TV series, including ten episodes of The Golden Girls , which was his first paid work as a writer. [5] His daughter is former child actor Tannis Vallely.