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name: "J. Michael Mendel"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/j-michael-mendel"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "24 September 1964"
died: "22 September 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 80
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T22:01:56.044922+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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# J. Michael Mendel

Producer. Born 24 September 1964 in Radford, Virginia, USA. Died 22 September 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 24 September 1964, Radford, Virginia, USA
- **Died:** 22 September 2019
- **Active:** 1996–2013
- **Also known as:** Mike Mendel
- **Average Fi1m score:** 80, as producer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 81 (1), 2010s 78 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Michael_Mendel, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q58806409, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0578821/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216675

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*Rick and Morty*](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md) (78)

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## Biography

J. Michael Mendel was an American television producer. Born Joel Michael Mendel on 24 September 1964 in Radford, Virginia, he died on 22 September 2019 in Los Angeles, California. He studied television and film production at Syracuse University and began his career as a production assistant on daytime soaps and James L. Brooks projects including *Broadcast News* (1987) and *Big* (1988).

Mendel joined *The Simpsons* in 1989 when it spun off from *The Tracey Ullman Show*, serving as producer, co-producer and associate producer through the tenth season and earning three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program. He later produced series including *The PJs* (1999), *The Oblongs* (2001), *Drawn Together* (2004–2007) and *Napoleon Dynamite* (2012).

From 2013 he worked as producer on *Rick and Morty*, winning a further Emmy for the episode "Pickle Rick" in 2018 and a posthumous Emmy in 2020. He was also associate producer on the film *Jerry Maguire* (1996).

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Rick and Morty* (2013), Fi1m 78, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md)
- *Jerry Maguire* (1996), Fi1m 81, Associate Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/jerry-maguire.md)

## Complete filmography (7)

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

- *Rick and Morty* (2013), series, In Memory Of, Producer — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/tv/rick-and-morty.md)
- *Lil' Bush* (2007), series, Producer
- *Queer Duck: The Movie* (2006), Producer
- *The Pitts* (2003), series, Associate Producer
- *The PJs* (1999), series, Producer
- *Jerry Maguire* (1996), Associate Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/jerry-maguire.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Producer, Associate Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

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