---
name: "Mark Kirkland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/mark-kirkland"
fi1m_id: "mark-kirkland"
imdb_id: "nm0456658"
tmdb_id: 1223614
wikidata_id: "Q2748620"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "5 November 1956"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T21:39:42.554663+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."
---

# Mark Kirkland

## Identity

Mark Kirkland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/mark-kirkland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** mark-kirkland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0456658
- **TMDB ID:** 1223614
- **Wikidata ID:** Q2748620
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kirkland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748620, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223614

Director. Born 5 November 1956 in Алтадена, Калифорния, США.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 5 November 1956, Алтадена, Калифорния, США
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kirkland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2748620, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0456658/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223614

## Streaming the US now

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

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

## Biography

Mark Kirkland is an American animation director. He was born on 5 November 1956 in Altadena, California, and studied at the California Institute of the Arts, receiving a BFA in 1978.

He began working on *The Simpsons* from its second season in 1990 and has directed more episodes of the series than any other director. He later served as supervising director on *HouseBroken*.

Kirkland has won three Primetime Emmy Awards for his work on *The Simpsons*. His father was the photographer and filmmaker Douglas Kirkland.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

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

## Complete filmography (8)

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

- *HouseBroken* (2021), series, Director
- *The Moving Picture Co. 1914* (2014), Director, Editor, Writer, Executive Producer
- *The Simpsons - Kiss and Tell: The Story of Their Love* (2006), Director
- *The Simpsons Classics – Sex, Lies & The Simpsons* (2004), Director
- *The Simpsons: Treehouse of Horror* (2003), Director
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Director — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Back to Neverland* (1989), Producer
- *Animal Crackers* (1978), Director

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© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. Canonical: https://film.one/person/mark-kirkland