David Shaber

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Known Credits

9

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-01-01

Deathday

1999-11-04 (70 years old)

Place of Birth

Cleveland, Ohio, United States

David Shaber

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. David Shaber (1929 - November 4, 1999) was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, best known for writing The Warriors, Nighthawks and The Hunt for Red October

Shaber was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and abandoned a pre-med education for the Yale Drama School. He wrote and produced plays, and also wrote forty commissioned screenplays, eight of which were made into feature films, in the 1970s and 1980s. In the 1990s, he taught advanced screenwriting at Columbia University in New York City.

He died of an aneurysm on November 4, 1999, aged 70.

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Known For

The Warriors
7.7%

The Warriors

Feb 1, 1979

Nighthawks
6.4%

Nighthawks

Mar 17, 1981

Flight of the Intruder
5.6%

Flight of the Intruder

Jan 18, 1991

Last Embrace
5.5%

Last Embrace

May 4, 1979

Rollover
5.1%

Rollover

Oct 11, 1981

Rollover
5.1%

Rollover

Oct 11, 1981

Such Good Friends
4.9%

Such Good Friends

Dec 16, 1971

Those Lips, Those Eyes
3.0%

Those Lips, Those Eyes

Aug 15, 1980

Channing
7.0%

Channing

Sep 18, 1963

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1991
Flight of the Intruder as Writer
1981
Rollover as Screenplay
1981
Rollover as Story
1981
Nighthawks as Writer
1980
Those Lips, Those Eyes as Screenplay
1979
Last Embrace as Writer
1979
The Warriors as Screenplay
1971
Such Good Friends as Adaptation
1963
Channing as Story
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David Shaber