---
name: "Bill Oakley"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/bill-oakley"
fi1m_id: "bill-oakley"
imdb_id: "nm0643009"
tmdb_id: 1216618
wikidata_id: "Q862352"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "27 February 1966"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:40:19.426295+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Bill Oakley

## Identity

Bill Oakley

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/bill-oakley
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** bill-oakley
- **IMDb ID:** nm0643009
- **TMDB ID:** 1216618
- **Wikidata ID:** Q862352
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Oakley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216618

Writer. Born 27 February 1966 in Westminster, Maryland, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 27 February 1966, Westminster, Maryland, USA
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Oakley, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q862352, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0643009/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216618

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)

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## Biography

Bill Oakley is an American television writer and producer. Born on 27 February 1966 in Westminster, Maryland, he attended St Albans School in Washington DC, where he met his longtime writing partner Josh Weinstein, and later Harvard University, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Lampoon.

Oakley and Weinstein joined the writing staff of *The Simpsons* in 1992. They wrote episodes including "Marge Gets a Job", "Bart vs. Australia" and "Who Shot Mr. Burns?", and served as executive producers and showrunners for seasons seven and eight. Oakley also contributed the "Skinner and the Superintendent" scene, featuring the "steamed hams" sequence, to the 1996 episode "22 Short Films About Springfield".

After leaving *The Simpsons*, Oakley and Weinstein created the animated series *Mission Hill* (1999). Oakley has since written for or produced *Futurama*, *Portlandia*, *Regular Show*, *Disenchantment* and *Close Enough*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, simpsons.fandom.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Close Enough* (2020), series, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Disenchantment* (2018), series, Co-Executive Producer, Writer
- *TripTank* (2014), series, as Nerdy Student (voice)
- *Portlandia* (2011), series, Writer, Coordinating Producer, Consulting Producer
- *Regular Show* (2010), series, Writer
- *Sit Down Shut Up* (2009), series, Producer
- *The Mullets* (2003), series, Producer, Writer, Creator
- *Mission Hill* (1999), series, as George Bang (voice) · Producer, Writer, Creator
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Gallery

- ![Bill Oakley](https://film.one/media/person/61907/gallery-39702e32fd1d.jpg) Bill Oakley — Bill Oakley, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Bill_Oakley2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Writers of The Simpsons in 1994. (L to R) Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Mike Reiss, Jeff Martin](https://film.one/media/person/61907/gallery-91f156d70fc3.jpg) Writers of The Simpsons in 1994. (L to R) Bill Oakley, Josh Weinstein, Mike Reiss, Jeff Martin — Bill Oakley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Simpsons_writers1.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![The Simpsons writing staff photo, c. 1992. (L to R) (back row) Mike Mendel, Colin ABV Lewis (partial), Jeff Goldstein, Al Jean (partial), Conan O'Brien, Bill Oa](https://film.one/media/person/61907/gallery-4d66aae5019d.jpg) The Simpsons writing staff photo, c. 1992. (L to R) (back row) Mike Mendel, Colin ABV Lewis (partial), Jeff Goldstein, Al Jean (partial), Conan O'Brien, Bill Oa — Bill Oakley, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Simpsons_writers2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)

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