Scott M. Gimple

If you cared about The Walking Dead, you owe Gimple something. As showrunner across seasons four through eight, he carried the weight of an enormous, demanding fanbase and a beloved comic source at the same time. What I find admirable is his dual fluency, comfortable writing both comics and television, which let him translate the source material's spirit rather than just its plot. Steering a long-running genre series without losing its identity is brutally hard, and he kept at it, even shepherding the spin-off The Ones Who Live. To me he reads as a steady guardian of a world, absorbing pressure most viewers never see.

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Name (English)

Scott M. Gimple

Name (Japanese)

スコット・M・ギンプル

Reading

すこっと・M・ぎんぷる

Born

March 29, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States

Occupation

screenwriter / author / showrunner / television producer / comics writer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Boar

High school

Governor Livingston High School

University

University of Southern California

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20M.%20Gimple
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B9%E3%82%B3%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BBM%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AE%E3%83%B3%E3%83%97%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2260865

Tags

• New Jersey
• screenwriter
• author
• showrunner

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.