---
name: "Max Pross"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/max-pross"
fi1m_id: "max-pross"
imdb_id: "nm0698795"
tmdb_id: 1216673
wikidata_id: "Q21030767"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
born: "22 March 1957"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 87
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-15T04:03:20.473588+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."
---

# Max Pross

## Identity

Max Pross

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/max-pross
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** max-pross
- **IMDb ID:** nm0698795
- **TMDB ID:** 1216673
- **Wikidata ID:** Q21030767
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21030767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216673

Writer and producer. Born 22 March 1957 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Born:** 22 March 1957, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- **Active:** 1988–1999
- **Also known as:** Tom Gammill and Max Pross 
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 4: 3 writing, 1 producing
- **Frequently works with:** [Tom Gammill](https://film.one/person/tom-gammill.md), [Art Wolff](https://film.one/person/art-wolff.md), [Billy Kimball](https://film.one/person/billy-kimball.md), [David Chambers](https://film.one/person/david-chambers-1223651.md), [David Mandel](https://film.one/person/david-mandel.md), [David M. Stern](https://film.one/person/david-m-stern.md), [Greg Daniels](https://film.one/person/greg-daniels.md), [Jennifer Crittenden](https://film.one/person/jennifer-crittenden.md)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 87, as writer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1980s 87 (3), 1990s 81 (1)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Comedy 3, Animation 1, Drama 1, Family 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q21030767, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0698795/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1216673

## Streaming the US now

- **Disney+:** [*The Simpsons*](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md) (88), [*The Wonder Years*](https://film.one/tv/the-wonder-years.md) (82)
- **Netflix:** [*Seinfeld*](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md) (90)

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

## Biography

Max Pross is an American television writer and producer, best known for his long-running writing partnership with Tom Gammill. A Harvard University graduate, he began writing comedy sketches with Gammill for Saturday Night Live in 1979.

The pair contributed episodes to Seinfeld from its fifth season onwards, as well as to The Wonder Years, It's Garry Shandling's Show, The Critic and Monk. Pross and Gammill have written for The Simpsons since 1999 and served as producers on the series and on Futurama. They won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program for the 2001 Simpsons episode 'HOMR'.

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

## On Fi1m (4)

### Wrote (3) — the average rests on these

- *Seinfeld* (1989), Fi1m 90, Writer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *The Simpsons* (1989), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *The Wonder Years* (1988), Fi1m 82, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wonder-years.md)

### Produced (1)

- *Futurama* (1999), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)

## Complete filmography (20)

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

- *Maggie Simpson in "Playdate with Destiny"* (2020), Writer
- *The Angry Birds Movie* (2016), Creative Consultant
- *Fuller House* (2016), series, Consulting Producer
- *Napoleon Dynamite* (2012), series, Writer
- *Presidential Reunion* (2010), Writer
- *Complete Savages* (2004), series, Writer
- *The Pitts* (2003), series, Writer, Producer
- *Monk* (2002), series, Writer
- *Futurama* (1999), series, Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/tv/futurama.md)
- *The Critic* (1994), series, Writer
- *Great Scott!* (1992), series, Creator
- *Morton & Hayes* (1991), series, Writer
- *The Simpsons* (1989), series, Producer, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-simpsons.md)
- *Seinfeld* (1989), series, Writer, Producer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/tv/seinfeld.md)
- *The Rocket Boy* (1989), Writer
- *The Wonder Years* (1988), series, Writer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-wonder-years.md)
- *It's Garry Shandling's Show* (1986), series, Writer
- *Looney Tunes 50th Anniversary* (1986), Writer
- *Steve Martin's Best Show Ever* (1981), Writer
- *The Paloni Family Comedy Show!*, series, Writer

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