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My Take
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.
Overview
Scott Michael Gimple (born March 29, 1971) is an American writer for both comics and television. He is known for his work as a writer and producer for Fillmore!, Life, FlashForward, Chase, and The Walking Dead, and served as showrunner for The Walking Dead from seasons 4 through 8 and for the spin-off The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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
- January 1, 2000 (age 26)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Capricorn / Dragon
- Origin
- Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- screenwriter / author / showrunner / television producer / comics writer
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Governor Livingston High School
- University
- University of Southern California
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.