---
name: "Patrick Caddell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/patrick-caddell"
fi1m_id: "patrick-caddell"
imdb_id: "nm0128082"
tmdb_id: 1219486
wikidata_id: "Q7146191"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "19 May 1950"
died: "16 February 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T23:08:18.585641+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."
---

# Patrick Caddell

## Identity

Patrick Caddell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/patrick-caddell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** patrick-caddell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0128082
- **TMDB ID:** 1219486
- **Wikidata ID:** Q7146191
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Caddell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7146191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219486

Writer. Born 19 May 1950 in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. Died 16 February 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 19 May 1950, Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA
- **Died:** 16 February 2019
- **Active:** 1993–1999
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 acting, 1 writing
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Caddell, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7146191, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0128082/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1219486

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*The West Wing*](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md) (86)

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

## Biography

Patrick Caddell was an American writer, producer and political consultant. He contributed story and teleplay credits to several episodes of the television series *The West Wing* (1999), including 'Five Votes Down', 'The Short List' and 'Lord John Marbury', and served as co-producer on 22 episodes during the second season. He also worked as a consultant on the series through its fourth season.

Caddell was born in Rock Hill, South Carolina, in 1950 and died in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2019. Before his television work he was a prominent public opinion pollster and campaign adviser, notably to Jimmy Carter during his successful 1976 presidential bid and subsequent campaigns. He later consulted on films including *Outbreak* (1995), *Air Force One* (1997) and *In the Line of Fire* (1993).

*Sources: westwing.fandom.com, tvmaze.com, apnews.com, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

### Performed in (1)

- *In the Line of Fire* (1993), Fi1m 78, as Political Speaker — [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-line-of-fire.md)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *The West Wing* (1999), Fi1m 86, Teleplay, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

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

- *Y2K* (1999), Executive Producer
- *The West Wing* (1999), series, Story, Teleplay — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)
- *In the Line of Fire* (1993), as Political Speaker — Fi1m 78, [page](https://film.one/film/in-the-line-of-fire.md)

## Gallery

- ![Patrick Caddell](https://film.one/media/person/61560/gallery-7f260272dd2e.jpg) Patrick Caddell — Unknown authorUnknown author or not provided, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Jimmy_Carter_with_Pat_Caddell_-_NARA_-_176724.tif/lossy-page1-1280px-Jimmy_Carter_with_Pat_Caddell_-_NARA_-_176724.tif.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Pat Caddell speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhe](https://film.one/media/person/61560/gallery-c81a94ee3436.jpg) Pat Caddell speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to Gage Skidmore if used elsewhe — Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1a/Patrick_Caddell_%2813047618003%29.jpg/1280px-Patrick_Caddell_%2813047618003%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Patrick Caddell speaking at the 2014 CPAC in Washington, D.C.](https://film.one/media/person/61560/gallery-34fd0fe916a3.jpg) Patrick Caddell speaking at the 2014 CPAC in Washington, D.C. — Gage Skidmore, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/Patrick_Caddell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg/1280px-Patrick_Caddell_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Whit Ayres, Ralph Hallow and Pat Cadell speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to G](https://film.one/media/person/61560/gallery-d282e0b36829.jpg) Whit Ayres, Ralph Hallow and Pat Cadell speaking at the 2014 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in National Harbor, Maryland. Please attribute to G — Gage Skidmore from Surprise, AZ, United States of America, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/55/Whit_Ayres%2C_Ralph_Hallow_%26_Pat_Cadell_%2813047818134%29.jpg/1280px-Whit_Ayres%2C_Ralph_Hallow_%26_Pat_Cadell_%2813047818134%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

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