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Jeffrey Jackson Bell is an American writer and producer best known for his work on television. He began his career writing for ''
The X-Files ''The X-Files'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Chris Carter. The series revolves around Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Special Agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), who ...
'', where he stayed for three seasons, then became a writer/director/producer on ''
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'', becoming its showrunner for the final two seasons. He served as executive producer on the pilot episode for the '' V'' remake, his first project in a 2009-10 deal with
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. From 2013 until 2020, Bell served as a co-showrunner and writer of the
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series ''
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''


Personal life

Bell was born in
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, studied design and photography at the
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, then moved to California, receiving MFA from the
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in 1990. His 20-minute MFA thesis film, ''Radio Inside,'' was adapted into a feature film of the same name starring
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and
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and released in 1994. Bell is a visiting assistant professor for the UCLA Producers Program.


Episodes written

The following is a partial list of television episodes written by Bell.


''The X-Files''

*6.08 "The Rain King" (writer) *6.16 "Alpha" (writer) *7.06 "The Goldberg Variation" (writer) *7.09 "Signs & Wonders" (writer) *8.10 "Salvage" (writer)


''Angel''

*3.02 "That Vision Thing" (writer) *3.06 "Billy" (co-writer) *3.08 "Quickening" (writer) *3.14 "Couplet" (co-writer) *3.17 "Forgiving" (writer) *3.20 "A New World" (writer) *4.04 "Slouching Toward Bethlehem" (writer) *4.08 "Habeas Corpses" (writer) *4.12 "Calvary" (co-writer) *4.16 "Players" (co-writer) *4.19 "The Magic Bullet" (writer/director) *5.06 "The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco" (writer/director) *5.22 "Not Fade Away" (co-writer/director)


''Alias''

*4.04 "Ice" (writer/director) *4.12 "The Orphan" (co-writer) *4.20 "The Descent" (writer/director) *5.06 "Solo" (writer/director)


''Day Break''

*1.08 "What If He's Not Alone?" (writer) *1.12 "What If She's the Key?" (writer)


''Harper's Island''

*1.02 "Crackle" (writer) *1.07 "Thrack, Splat, Sizzle" (writer) *1.12 "Sigh" (writer)


''Spartacus: War of the Damned''

*3.09 "The Dead and the Dying" (writer)


''The Protector''

*1.01 "Pilot" (writer) *1.04 "Spoons" (writer) *1.13 "Safe" (writer)


''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.''

*1.02 "0-8-4" (writer) *1.04 "Eye-Spy" (writer) *1.14 "T.A.H.I.T.I" (writer) *1.21 "Ragtag" (writer) *2.10 "What They Become" (writer) *2.21 "S.O.S., Part One" (writer) *3.10 "Maveth" (writer) *4.06 "The Good Samaritan" (writer) *4.22 "World's End" (writer) *5.12 "The Real Deal" (co-writer) *6.08 "Collision Course (Part 1)" (co-writer) *7.12 "The End is at Hand" (writer)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bell, Jeffrey Year of birth missing (living people) American television writers American male television writers Living people People from Indiana University of Cincinnati alumni UCLA Film School alumni Screenwriters from Indiana