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name: "Mark Richard"
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roles: ["Producer"]
born: "1 January 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-17T13:37:33.492636+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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# Mark Richard

Producer. Born 1 January 1955 in Lake Charles.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 1 January 1955, Lake Charles
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Richard, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6769414, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1649645/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1223862

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The Sympathizer*](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md) (72)

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## Biography

Mark Richard is an American writer, screenwriter and producer. Born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1955, he grew up in Texas and Virginia and attended Washington and Lee University. His early work includes the short-story collections *The Ice at the Bottom of the World* (1989) and *Charity* (1998), the novel *Fishboy* (1993), and the memoir *House of Prayer No. 2* (2010).

Richard has written for and produced several television series, including *Hell on Wheels* (2011), *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), *NOS4A2* (2019) and *The Sympathizer* (2024). He co-created and served as showrunner on the 2020 miniseries *The Good Lord Bird*. In film, he co-wrote the screenplay for *Stop-Loss* (2008).

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Sympathizer* (2024), Fi1m 72, Executive Producer, Writer, Co-Executive Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md)

## Complete filmography (9)

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

- *The Sympathizer* (2024), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-sympathizer.md)
- *The Good Lord Bird* (2020), series, Executive Producer, Writer, Creator
- *NOS4A2* (2019), series, Writer, Consulting Producer
- *Fear the Walking Dead* (2015), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer
- *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), series, Writer
- *Hell on Wheels* (2011), series, Writer
- *Stop-Loss* (2008), Pastor Colson, Writer
- *Huff* (2004), series, Writer
- *The Ice at the Bottom of the World*, Screenplay, Executive Producer

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award 1990: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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