---
name: "Jace Richdale"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jace-richdale"
fi1m_id: "jace-richdale"
imdb_id: "nm0724842"
tmdb_id: 1216634
wikidata_id: "Q3157073"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "1 January 1953"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 81
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-17T17:32:06.914291+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."
---

# Jace Richdale

## Identity

Jace Richdale

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jace-richdale
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jace-richdale
- **IMDb ID:** nm0724842
- **TMDB ID:** 1216634
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3157073
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jace_Richdale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3157073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216634

Writer. Born 1 January 1953.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 1 January 1953
- **Active:** 1989–2006
- **Average Fi1m score:** 81, as writer, over 2 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 88 (1), 2000s 74 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jace_Richdale, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3157073, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0724842/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216634

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88)
- **Apple TV:** [*Dexter*](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md) (74)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Jace Richdale is an American television writer and producer. He served as co-executive producer on seasons five and six of *The Simpsons* and wrote the episode "Burns' Heir" (1994). He was part of the writing staff during seasons five, six, nine and ten.

His other writing credits include episodes of *Dexter*, *The Oblongs* (which he created), *Family Ties*, *Get a Life*, *Insatiable*, *The Man in the High Castle* and *American Odyssey*. He has also produced episodes of several of these series. In 2012 he received a Writers Guild of America nomination for episodic drama for his *Dexter* script "Just Let Go".

He was previously married to fellow writer Jennifer Crittenden.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Dexter* (2006), Fi1m 74, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)

## Complete filmography (15)

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

- *Insatiable* (2018), series, Writer
- *American Odyssey* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), series, Writer
- *The Goode Family* (2009), series, Co-Executive Producer
- *Cavemen* (2007), series, Writer
- *Dexter* (2006), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 74, [page](https://film.one/tv/dexter.md)
- *Oliver Beene* (2003), series, Writer
- *The Oblongs* (2001), series, Writer, Creator
- *The Brian Benben Show* (1998), series, Writer
- *Get a Life* (1990), series, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *I Married Dora* (1987), series, Producer
- *Amen* (1986), series, Writer
- *The Hogan Family* (1986), series, Writer
- *Down to Earth* (1984), series, Writer

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