Henry Wellesley Wild (born April 27, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer, and voice actor. He is best known for writing and producing several episodes of the animated series ''

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''. He was a former

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and an occasional

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for the show. Wild attended

Westminster School (God Gives the Increase) , established = Earliest records date from the 14th century, refounded in 1560 , type = Public school Independent day and boarding school , religion = Church of England , head_label = Hea ...

, a Founders League prep school located in

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. ''Family Guy'' creator

Seth MacFarlane Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orville'' (since 2017), and co-creator ...

also attended another Founders League school, the

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. Wild also wrote for ''

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'' during the show's first year.

Career

Wild joined ''Family Guy'' in 2005, and has since written and produced multiple episodes, including: *"

Petarded "Petarded" is the sixth episode of the fourth season of the American animated television series '' Family Guy''. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on June 19, 2005. It was written by Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild and directed by Se ...

" *" PTV" *"

Petergeist "Petergeist" is the 26th episode from season four of Fox animated series '' Family Guy''. Peter decides to build a multiplex to top Joe's new home theater, but comes across a Native American skull in his backyard and desecrates it. As a result, ...

" *" Untitled Griffin Family History" *"

Stu and Stewie's Excellent Adventure ''Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story'' is a 2005 American adult animated direct-to-video adventure comedy film set in the '' Family Guy'' fictional universe. Released on September 27, 2005, the film's main plot point concerns Stewie Griffin, follo ...

" *"

Chick Cancer "Chick Cancer" is the seventh episode of season five of '' Family Guy''. The episode originally broadcast on November 26, 2006. In the episode, Stewie's old friend and child actress, Olivia Fuller (voiced by Rachael MacFarlane) returns to Quahog. ...

" *" Barely Legal" *"

Road to Rupert "Road to Rupert" is the ninth episode of the fifth season of '' Family Guy''. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 28, 2007. It is the third episode in the ''Road to...'' series of episodes in ''Family Guy''. The episode fo ...

" *"

Airport '07 "Airport '07" is the twelfth episode of season five of the animated sitcom ''Family Guy''. The episode originally broadcast on Fox on March 4, 2007. The plot follows the Griffin family's neighbor Quagmire being dismissed from his job as a pilot af ...

" *"

McStroke "McStroke" is the eighth episode of season six of the animated comedy series '' Family Guy''. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on January 13, 2008. The episode follows Peter as he saves the life of a fast-food restaurant owner who ...

" *" Long John Peter" *" Tales of a Third Grade Nothing" *"

Family Gay "Family Gay" is the eighth episode in the seventh season of the American animated television series '' Family Guy''. It originally aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 8, 2009. In the episode, Peter becomes temporarily gay afte ...

" *" Peter's Progress" *"

Road to the Multiverse "Road to the Multiverse" is the first episode of the eighth season of the animated comedy series ''Family Guy''. Directed by Greg Colton and written by Wellesley Wild, the episode originally aired on Fox in the United States on September 27, 2009, ...

" *" Welcome Back, Carter" *"

Seahorse Seashell Party "Seahorse Seashell Party" is the second episode of the tenth season of the American animated television series ''Family Guy''. It originally aired on Fox in the United States on October 2, 2011. The episode mainly centers around the Griffin famil ...

" *" Internal Affairs" *"

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" *"

Boopa-dee Bappa-dee "Boopa-dee Bappa-dee" is the fifth episode of the Family Guy (season 12), twelfth season and the 215th overall episode of the animated cartoon, animated television comedy, comedy series ''Family Guy''. It aired on Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox in t ...

" *"

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" In August 2010 Wild and his writing partner

Alec Sulkin Alexander Matthew Sulkin (born February 14, 1973) is an American screenwriter, producer, and voice actor known for his work on ''Family Guy'' and ''The Cleveland Show''. Career Sulkin began as a writer for ''The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)#C ...

signed a three-year pact with 20th Century Fox TV. The two will continue working on ''Family Guy'' and will develop their own television series. Discussing whether the new series would be a live action or an animation, Wild said, "We've been throwing around both ideas." Their joint production, '' Dads'' premiered on September 17, 2013. He co-wrote the 2012 film ''

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'' with Sulkin and MacFarlane, and also wrote the 2014 film '' A Million Ways to Die in the West'' and ''

Ted 2 ''Ted 2'' (stylized as ted2) is a 2015 American comedy film directed by Seth MacFarlane and written by MacFarlane, Alec Sulkin, and Wellesley Wild. The second installment in the ''Ted'' franchise, it serves as a sequel to the 2012 film of the ...

'' (2015). He served as co-executive producer along with MacFarlane for MacFarlane's show, ''

The Orville ''The Orville'' is an American science fiction comedy-drama television series created by Seth MacFarlane, who also stars as series protagonist Ed Mercer, an officer in the Planetary Union's line of exploratory space vessels in the 25th century ...

''. Wild is also the showrunner for the revival of ''

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,'' which premiered on

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in 2020. Through his English paternal grandfather Wellesley is a descendant of both Edward I (Longshanks) King of England (1272-1307) and Richard Colley Wellesley, 1st Marquess, brother of Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington. Wild is also related to former CIA Director Porter Goss.

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