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Randall Keenan Winston is a television producer and
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best known for his work on ''
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'' and '' Scrubs''.


Career

He has been an associate producer on such shows as '' Champs'', '' Day By Day'', '' Brooklyn Bridge'' and ''Spin City''. He produced ''Scrubs'', and was co-nominated with Bill Lawrence in 2004 for Danny Thomas Producer of the Year by the
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. He has twice been Emmy nominated. He produced the pilots '' Nobody's Watching'' and ''Confessions of a Dog''. He has also directed two episodes of ''Scrubs'',
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and My Buddy's Booty, and has appeared in episodes of the show as Leonard the security guard and ''Death''. He went on to be a producer on Lawrence's show ''
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''. For the ninth season of ''Scrubs'' he acted as co-executive producer.


Personal life

He grew up in
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, and graduated from
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in 1989. He is good friends with ''Scrubs'' creator and ''Spin City'' co-creator Bill Lawrence, with whom he has worked on most of his projects. Lawrence says his and Winston's friendship was the inspiration for the friendship of J.D. and Turk on ''Scrubs'' and Stuart and Carter on ''Spin City''. The character Randall Winston on ''Spin City'' was named after him, as was the character Randall, played by
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, on ''Scrubs''. He is the inspiration for the character of Carter Heywood on ''Spin City.'' He is openly gay and lives with his partner in
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. He is a member of the board of the
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.


Filmography


Producer

* '' Champs'' (Associate Producer) (1996) (3 episodes) * ''
Spin City ''Spin City'' is an American sitcom television series that aired from September 17, 1996 to April 30, 2002, on ABC. Created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence, the show is set in a semi-fictionalized version of the New York City mayor' ...
'' (Associate Producer) (1996-2000) (100 episodes) * '' Scrubs'' (Producer, Co-Executive Producer, Co-Producer) (2001–10) (182 episodes) * ''Confessions of a Dog'' (Producer) (2005) (TV movie) * ''Nobody's Watching'' (Producer) (2006) (TV movie) * ''
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'' (2007) (Producer) (Episode: "Her Embarrassed of Cavemen") * ''Night Life'' (Producer) (2008) (TV movie) * ''
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'' (Co-Executive Producer, Producer, Executive Producer) (2009–15) (87 episodes) * ''
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'' (Co-Executive Producer, Producer, Executive Producer) (2013–15) (20 episodes) * ''
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'' (Co-Executive Producer, Executive Producer) (2014–15) (23 episodes) * '' The Sixth Lead'' (Executive Producer) (2015) (4 episodes) (miniseries) * '' Rush Hour'' (Co-Executive Producer, Consulting Producer) (2016) (13 episodes) * '' Nobodies'' (Co-Executive Producer) (2017–18) (24 episodes) * '' Grace and Frankie'' (Co-Executive Producer) (2018) (13 episodes) * '' Roseanne'' (Co-Executive Producer) (2018) (9 episodes) * ''
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'' (Executive Producer) (2019–21) (36 episodes) * ''
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'' (Executive Producer) (2020–21) (13 episodes)


Director

* '' Scrubs'' (2004–06) (2 episodes) * ''
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'' (2013) (Episode: "The Criminal Kind") * '' Grace and Frankie'' (2018–19) (2 episodes) * ''
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'' (2020–21) (3 episodes) * ''
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'' (2021) (3 episodes) * ''
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'' (2021) (Episode: "The Stare-Master") * '' American Auto'' (2022) (Episode: "Recall")


Other work

* '' American Dreamer'' (Assistant to Producers) (1990) * '' Brooklyn Bridge'' (Post-Production Coordinator) (1993) (Episode: "In a Family Way") * ''
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'' (Post-Production Supervisor) (1995) (13 episodes) * '' Scrubs'' (Actor) (Leonard the Security Guard/Death) (2001–09) (14 episodes) * ''
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'' (Consultant) (2014) (13 episodes)


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