Richard Appel

**Richard James Appel** (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer, producer and former attorney. He is currently an executive producer of *Family Guy*. He served as an executive producer and, along with Seth MacFarlane and Mike Henry, co-created *The Cleveland Show*. He previously served as a co-executive producer of *Family Guy*, and wrote the show's seventh season episode "Family Gay". He also wrote the "Pilot" episode of *The Cleveland Show*.

## Credits

### *Family Guy*

Co-executive producer
*Incomplete*
Executive producer
*Incomplete*
Actor
*Incomplete*
Writer
* "Family Gay"

### *The Cleveland Show*

Co-creator

* "Pilot"
* "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance"
* "The One About Friends"
* "Birth of a Salesman"
* "Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb"
* "Ladies' Night"
* "A Brown Thanksgiving"
* "From Bed to Worse"
* "A Cleveland Brown Christmas"
* "Field of Streams"
* "Love Rollercoaster"
* "Our Gang"
* "Buried Pleasure"
* "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool"
* "Once Upon a Tyne in New York"
* "The Brown Knight"
* "Gone with the Wind"
* "Brotherly Love"
* "Brown History Month"
* "Cleveland's Angels"
* "You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown"
* "Harder, Better, Faster, Browner"
* "Cleveland Live!"
* "How Cleveland Got His Groove Back"
* "It's the Great Pancake, Junior Brown"
* "Little Man on Campus"
* "Fat and Wet"
* "Another Bad Thanksgiving"
* "Murray Christmas"
* "Beer Walk!"
* "Ain't Nothin' but Mutton Bustin'"
* "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?"
* "Like a Boss"
* "A Short Story and a Tall Tale"
* "Terry Unmarried"
* "The Blue and the Gray and the Brown"
* "The Way the Cookie Crumbles"
* "To Live and Die in VA"
* "The Essence of Cleveland"
* "Ship'rect"
* "Back to Cool"
* "Your Show of Shows"
* "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang"
* "BFFs"
* "The Hurricane!"
* "Nightmare on Grace Street"
* "Skip Day"
* "Yemen Party"
* "Sex and the Biddy"
* "Die Semi-Hard"
* "Y Tu Junior Tambien"
* "There Goes El Neighborhood"
* "Dancing with the Stools"
* "Brown Magic"
* "'Til Deaf"
* "Das Shrimp Boot"
* "March Dadness"
* "The Men in Me"
* "Frapp Attack!"
* "American Prankster"
* "B.M.O.C."
* "Jesus Walks"
* "Flush of Genius"
* "Mama Drama"
* "All You Can Eat"
* "Escape from Goochland"
* "Menace II Secret Society"
* "A General Thanksgiving Episode"
* "Turkey Pot Die"
* "A Vas Deferens Between Men and Women"
* "'Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry"
* "Hustle 'n' Bros"
* "Wide World of Cleveland Show"
* "Here Comes the Bribe"
* "When a Man (or a Freight Train) Loves His Cookie"
* "Brownsized"
* "Pins, Spins and Fins! (Shark Story Cut for Time)"
* "A Rodent Like This"
* "The Hangover: Part Tubbs"
* "California Dreamin' (All the Cleves Are Brown)"
* "Who Done Did It?"
* "Fist and the Furious"
* "Squirt's Honor"
* "Grave Danger"
* "Of Lice and Men"
* "Mr. and Mrs. Brown"
* "Crazy Train"
* "Wheel! Of! Family!"

Executive producer

* "Pilot"
* "Da Doggone Daddy-Daughter Dinner Dance"
* "The One About Friends"
* "Birth of a Salesman"
* "Cleveland Jr.'s Cherry Bomb"
* "Ladies' Night"
* "A Brown Thanksgiving"
* "From Bed to Worse"
* "A Cleveland Brown Christmas"
* "Field of Streams"
* "Love Rollercoaster"
* "Our Gang"
* "Buried Pleasure"
* "The Curious Case of Jr. Working at the Stool"
* "Once Upon a Tyne in New York"
* "The Brown Knight"
* "Gone with the Wind"
* "Brotherly Love"
* "Brown History Month"
* "Cleveland's Angels"
* "You're the Best Man, Cleveland Brown"
* "Harder, Better, Faster, Browner"
* "Cleveland Live!"
* "How Cleveland Got His Groove Back"
* "It's the Great Pancake, Junior Brown"
* "Little Man on Campus"
* "Fat and Wet"
* "Another Bad Thanksgiving"
* "Murray Christmas"
* "Beer Walk!"
* "Ain't Nothin' but Mutton Bustin'"
* "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Roberta?"
* "Like a Boss"
* "A Short Story and a Tall Tale"
* "Terry Unmarried"
* "The Blue and the Gray and the Brown"
* "The Way the Cookie Crumbles"
* "To Live and Die in VA"
* "The Essence of Cleveland"
* "Ship'rect"
* "Back to Cool"
* "Your Show of Shows"
* "Hot Cocoa Bang Bang"
* "BFFs"
* "The Hurricane!"
* "Nightmare on Grace Street"
* "Skip Day"
* "Yemen Party"
* "Sex and the Biddy"
* "Die Semi-Hard"
* "Y Tu Junior Tambien"
* "There Goes El Neighborhood"
* "Dancing with the Stools"
* "Brown Magic"
* "'Til Deaf"
* "Das Shrimp Boot"
* "March Dadness"
* "The Men in Me"
* "Frapp Attack!"
* "American Prankster"
* "B.M.O.C."
* "Jesus Walks"
* "Flush of Genius"
* "Mama Drama"
* "All You Can Eat"
* "Escape from Goochland"
* "Menace II Secret Society"
* "A General Thanksgiving Episode"
* "Turkey Pot Die"
* "A Vas Deferens Between Men and Women"
* "'Tis the Cleveland to Be Sorry"
* "Hustle 'n' Bros"
* "Wide World of Cleveland Show"
* "Here Comes the Bribe"
* "When a Man (or a Freight Train) Loves His Cookie"
* "Brownsized"
* "Pins, Spins and Fins! (Shark Story Cut for Time)"
* "A Rodent Like This"
* "The Hangover: Part Tubbs"
* "California Dreamin' (All the Cleves Are Brown)"
* "Who Done Did It?"
* "Fist and the Furious"
* "Squirt's Honor"
* "Grave Danger"
* "Of Lice and Men"
* "Mr. and Mrs. Brown"
* "Crazy Train"
* "Wheel! Of! Family!"

Actor
*Incomplete*
Writer
* "Pilot"

## External links

* link= Richard Appel at the Internet Movie Database
* link= Richard Appel at Wikipedia