James Vallely (born August 30, 1954) is an American

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, and screenwriter. He was a writer and consulting producerDunphy, John
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''East Brunswick Sentinel'', September 29, 2005. Accessed July 28, 2016. "For East Brunswick native Jim Vallely, his began when former East Brunswick High School drama teacher Elliott Taubenslag asked him a simple question.... After graduating from high school in 1972, Vallely took on stand-up comedy by helping form the Funny Boys troupe during the late 1970s." for ''

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'', a multiple Emmy Award-winning television show on the Fox network, and was an executive producer and co-creator of '' Running Wilde'', also on Fox, along with Mitchell Hurwitz and

Will Arnett William Emerson Arnett (; born May 4, 1970) is a Canadian actor, comedian and producer. He is best known for his roles as Gob Bluth in the Fox/Netflix series '' Arrested Development'' (2003–2006, 2013, 2018–2019) and as the titular char ...

. His work on ''Arrested Development'' won him a Primetime Emmy Award and a Writers Guild Of America Award. Vallely grew up in

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, graduating from East Brunswick High School in 1972. He attended both

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and

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, and later moved to California in 1982. He wrote for a number of TV series, including ten episodes of '' The Golden Girls'', which was his first paid work as a writer, ''

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'', and '' Ladies Man''. His daughter is former child actor

Tannis Vallely Tannis Kathleen Vallely (December 28, 1975 in New York City) is an American casting director and former child actress. She played Zoé in the French film ''Une Femme ou Deux'' (English: ''One Woman or Two''; 1985). She played Janice Lazzarotto on ...

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* 1954 births Living people American television writers East Brunswick High School alumni American male television writers Primetime Emmy Award winners Middlesex County College alumni New York University alumni People from East Brunswick, New Jersey Writers Guild of America Award winners Screenwriters from New Jersey Television producers from New Jersey {{US-tv-writer-stub