---
name: "Rick Cleveland"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/rick-cleveland"
fi1m_id: "rick-cleveland"
imdb_id: "nm0166498"
tmdb_id: 69019
wikidata_id: "Q4133060"
roles: ["Writer","Producer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 4
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 4
updated: "2026-10-07T15:06:59.293988+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."
---

# Rick Cleveland

## Identity

Rick Cleveland

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/rick-cleveland
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** rick-cleveland
- **IMDb ID:** nm0166498
- **TMDB ID:** 69019
- **Wikidata ID:** Q4133060
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cleveland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4133060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166498/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69019

Writer and producer. Born in United States.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer, Producer
- **Active:** 1999–2009
- **Frequently works with:** [Alan Taylor](https://film.one/person/alan-taylor.md), [Allen Coulter](https://film.one/person/allen-coulter.md), [Andrew Bernstein](https://film.one/person/andrew-bernstein.md), [Daisy von Scherler Mayer](https://film.one/person/daisy-von-scherler-mayer.md), [Lesli Linka Glatter](https://film.one/person/lesli-linka-glatter.md), [Matt Shakman](https://film.one/person/matt-shakman.md), [Michael Engler](https://film.one/person/michael-engler.md), [Michael Lehmann](https://film.one/person/michael-lehmann.md)
- **Primetime Emmy Awards:** 1 Emmy (1 won)
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as writer, over 4 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 86 (1), 2000s 82 (3)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 81 to 76 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 4, Comedy 1
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Cleveland, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4133060, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0166498/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/69019

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Six Feet Under*](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md) (86), [*The West Wing*](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md) (86)
- **AMC+:** [*Mad Men*](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md) (88)
- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*Nurse Jackie*](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md) (72)

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

## Biography

Rick Cleveland is an American television writer, producer, playwright and monologist. He holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and is a founding member of Chicago’s American Blues Theater.

He worked as a writer and producer on the first season of *The West Wing* (1999), co-writing the episode “In Excelsis Deo” with Aaron Sorkin, for which they won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series. Cleveland served as writer and producer across all five seasons of *Six Feet Under* (2001–2005), writing eight episodes and rising to executive producer. He later worked as a consulting producer and writer on *Mad Men* (2007).

His other credits include writing and producing on series such as *House of Cards*, *Nurse Jackie* and *The Man in the High Castle*, and the screenplay for the feature film *Runaway Jury* (2003). He adapted his stage play into the film *Jerry and Tom* (1998).

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

## On Fi1m (4)

- *Nurse Jackie* (2009), Fi1m 72, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md)
- *Mad Men* (2007), Fi1m 88, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), Fi1m 86, Co-Executive Producer, Writer, Supervising Producer, Executive Producer, Producer — [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *The West Wing* (1999), Fi1m 86, Writer, Story — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)

## Complete filmography (14)

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

- *Insatiable* (2018), series, Executive Producer, Writer
- *Marvel's Inhumans* (2017), series, Writer
- *Inhumans: The First Chapter* (2017), Co-Executive Producer
- *Claws* (2017), series, Writer
- *The Man in the High Castle* (2015), series, Writer
- *Under the Dome* (2013), series, Writer
- *House of Cards* (2013), series, Writer, Producer, Co-Executive Producer
- *Nurse Jackie* (2009), series, Writer, Co-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer — Fi1m 72, [page](https://film.one/tv/nurse-jackie.md)
- *Mad Men* (2007), series, Writer — Fi1m 88, [page](https://film.one/tv/mad-men.md)
- *Runaway Jury* (2003), Screenplay
- *Six Feet Under* (2001), series, Writer, Producer, Supervising Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/six-feet-under.md)
- *The West Wing* (1999), series, Writer, Story — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/tv/the-west-wing.md)
- *Jerry and Tom* (1998), Co-Producer, Writer
- *Maximum Bob* (1998), series, Writer

## Awards

### Primetime Emmy Awards — 1 won

- 2000: Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series (won), for *The West Wing*

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

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