David Shaber

Personal Info

Know For

Writing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1929-01-01 (70 years old)

Deathday

1999-11-04

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article D...

Production

1979

The Warriors

as Screenplay

1981

Rollover

as Screenplay

1980

1971

Such Good Friends

as Adaptation

1981

Nighthawks

as Writer

1979

Last Embrace

as Writer

1981

Rollover

as Story

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