James Vallely[1][2][3] (born August 30, 1954) is an American television producer and screenwriter.
He has written and produced for The Golden Girls, Two and a Half Men, My Wife and Kids, The John Larroquette Show, and Ladies Man,[4] as well as Arrested Development, a multiple Emmy Award-winning television show on the Fox network.
Valley was an executive producer and co-creator of Running Wilde, also on Fox, along with Mitchell Hurwitz and Will Arnett.
[4] He attended both Middlesex County College and New York University, 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.