James Brooks
- Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Birthday: May 9, 1940
The multi-talented James L Brooks has proven to be a force in television and films since the late 1960s. The Brooklyn-born, New Jersey-raised triple threat (writer-producer-director) moved to L.A. in the mid-60s and landed work on documentaries produced by David L Wolper. Brooks began to contribute scripts to the detective drama "My Friend Tony" (NBC, 1969) before he struck paydirt creating the groundbreaking half-hour comedy-drama "Room 222" (ABC, 1969-74) and the now classic sitcom "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (CB…more