David M. Israel

{{short description|American actor}}

David Michael Israel is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning{{Cite web|url = http://www.binala.org/users/davidisrael|title = IAC Edge|date = 28 April 2013|access-date = 11 March 2014|archive-date = 11 March 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140311070111/http://www.binala.org/users/davidisrael|url-status = dead}} television producer and writer as well as a former sportscaster for the New York Mets.[http://www.classmates.com/cmo/user/profile/index.jsp;jsessionid=PJE4KWUZQS1C2CQKWZUSWKQKBK1GUIV3?site=schools®Id=452739821&_requestid=576050 Classmates bio] ("Before moving to Los Angeles from New York, Israel was a writer, producer and editor for Major League Baseball, working on such projects as This Week in Baseball, the 1986 New York Mets Highlight Film, and several World Series Highlight Films."[http://nickpress-howtorock.com/bios.html How to Rock bio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131004215915/http://nickpress-howtorock.com/bios.html |date=2013-10-04 }}). He has worked on The Tracy Morgan Show, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Grounded for Life and the Nickelodeon sitcom How to Rock{{Cite web |url=http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/21/nickelodeons-new-series-how-to-rock-premieres-february-4/114503/ |title=Nickelodeon's New Series 'How to Rock' Premieres Saturday, February 4… |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140311034540/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/12/21/nickelodeons-new-series-how-to-rock-premieres-february-4/114503/ |archive-date=11 March 2014 |url-status=dead}} and Dynasty (2017 TV series). He was a writer and co-executive producer on the NBC show About a Boy.

In 2005, Israel and his partner Jim O'Doherty were signed to a two-year development deal with NBCUniversal.{{Cite web |url=http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/565/53/ |title=Cynthia Turner's Cynopsis |access-date=2006-11-17 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20070927121710/http://www.cynopsis.com/content/view/565/53/ |archive-date=2007-09-27 |url-status=dead }}