Bill Lawrence

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Biography

Recent Role:
Part 2 on Cougar Town
Gender:
Male
Born:
12-26-1968
Birthplace:
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Birth Name:
William Van Duzer Lawrence
AKA:
William Lawrence
Bill Lawrence is one of Hollywood's funniest and most successful television Writer/Executive Producers working in the industry today. He's also one of the busiest: he taped this interview after a long day of working on the set of his most recent NBC Series, Scrubs. The time? Two o'clock in the morning. And that's when he started…



Bill's career started in California, although he was raised in Connecticut. After graduating from William and Mary College in 1990 with a degree in English, he hopped into his Jeep and drove back to California with only one goal in



More mind: he wanted to be a writer.



A family friend, a former writer for the original Dick Van Dyke Show was impressed by Bill's gift for dialogue and had suggested Bill move to Los Angeles. This friend was clearly right in his assessment of Bill's talent because within months, Bill succeeded in landing a manager (two, actually) and soon after that, he landed his first job as Staff Writer on a sitcom entitled, curiously enough, Billy.



From there, Bill joined the original writing staff of the highly successful Friends, and he hasn't stopped writing since. In fact, he has had two shows in primetime television, Spin City,, which he co-created with Gary David Goldberg, and Scrubs. Also, as if that's not enough, Bill co-created yet another series, Clone High, and Nobody's Watching.



Bill and his wife, actress Christa Miller ("Scrubs") live in Los Angeles with their daughter, Charlotte Sarah, and sons, William Stoddard and Henry Vanduzer.

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    9.5 Superb
    This man is a genius. hide show

    This men is a genius. I think he can turn the worst program in to the best viewed show ever.

    He created spin city, which is a briliant show, it has so much fun, but can be a real drama at the same time.

    Then there is Scrubs, which is more over everything, there is more goofy stuff, there is more comedy and there is a lot more drama and tears.

    He knows how to walk the line between comedy and drama.

    When i watch spin city, i can see how he has grown as i watch scrubs. The charactes are les typical and more grown, and the show goes already on for 8 seasons.

    Making an other season with a different cast may be the first mistake Bill Lawrence made in his television carreer.

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    10 Perfect
    Bill is an awesome television writer. hide show

    Bill Lawrence has brought us hilarious shows such as Scrubs and Spin City, as well as the cartoon Clone High and YouTube hit, Nobody's Watching. He is a brilliant creator and writer. He deserves everything he gets out of the Hollywood business, because it is clear that he has worked hard to get it. He has a great mind and no one can deny the hilarity of his writing.

    On top of creating shows, he has also written for other shows, like Boy Meets World and Friends. Thus, we really know that he has talent, if we didn't before. Plus, he's kind of cute :) Keep up the great work, Bill!!

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