Dille was born in
Chicago, Illinois, the son of Robert Crabtree Dille and Virginia Nichols Dille. He attended
Glenbrook South High School. In 1977, he graduated from
U.C. Berkeley with a
Bachelor's degree in Ancient History and Classical Rhetoric. He received a
Master of Fine Arts in Professional Writing (Cinema) from the
University of Southern California. He lives in
Los Angeles, California.
Flint Dille is the grandson of John F. Dille, publisher of the original
Buck Rogers comic strip, and is part of the Dille Family Trust, which owns the rights to the character.
After grad school, Dille worked as a freelance script reader, production assistant, and assistant art director before getting his first writing job from
Joe Ruby at
Ruby-Spears as a Saturday Morning Development writer. This led to writing scripts for
Mr. T.,
The Puppy, and
RoboForce. Later, Dille went to work for
Sunbow Productions and served in various capacities as Writer, Story Editor, Associate Producer, and Co-Producer on several shows, including
The Transformers,
G.I. Joe,
Inhumanoidsand
Visionaries.
Dille was a story editor for the first season of
G.I. Joe (1985). He also wrote the episodes "The Gamesmaster," "Eau De Cobra," and ""Skeletons in the Closet," and co-wrote the episodes "The Pit of Vipers," "The Wrong Stuff," "Grey Hairs and Growing Pains," and "G.I. Joe and the Golden Fleece."
Dille joined the production team of
The Transformers as a supervising story editor in the show's second season (1985-1986) and also co-wrote wrote the episode "Prime Target" with his
G.I. Joe colleague
Buzz Dixon. Dille worked on an extensive rewrite of
Ron Friedman's screenplay for
Transformers: The Movie (1986); although Friedman contractually received sole screenplay credit, Dille was credited onsceen as the film's story consultant. After the movie, Dille served as a story editor for the third season of
The Transformers (1986-1987) and wrote the season's five-part opening story, "Five Faces of Darkness."
Dille returned to
G.I. Joe after the series was taken over by
DIC Entertainment, co-writing the episode "Injustice and the Cobra Way" for the show's first DIC season (1990-1991).
Dille worked briefly at CBS on the in-house production of
Garbage Pail Kids, before working with
Amblin Entertainment on several projects, including
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West,
Tiny Toons (as a movie), and
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story.
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