Don Payne

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1964-05-05

Deathday 2013-03-26 (48 years old)

Place of Birth Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Don Payne

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.

Known For

Writer

2011
Thor

as Screenplay

2006
1998
1996
1995
Hope and Gloria

as Writer

1995
Pride & Joy

as Writer

1989
The Simpsons

as Writer

Producer

1989
The Simpsons

as Producer

1989
The Simpsons

as Supervising Producer

Crew

2013
Thor: The Dark World

as In Memory Of