David Shaber
{{short description|American screenwriter}}
{{Infobox person
| name = David Shaber
| birth_date = 1929
| birth_place = Cleveland, Ohio, United States
| death_date = November 4, {{death year and age|1999|1929}}
| death_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Screenwriter
Theatre producer
| yearsactive = 1964–1991
}}
David Shaber (1929 – November 4, 1999) was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, who wrote the screenplays for The Warriors,{{cite web|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9B04E7DD1139E732A25753C1A9649C946890D6CF|title=The Warriors (1979) Movie: 'Warriors' Creates Visual Style That Is Stark:The Cast|first=Janet|last=Maslin|authorlink=Janet Maslin|date=February 10, 1979}} Nighthawks, Rollover, Last Embrace and Flight of the Intruder.Ebert, Roger. [http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19910118/REVIEWS/101180302 Flight of the Intruder], Chicago Sun-Times, January 18, 1991 He also wrote the final draft, though uncredited, for the John McTiernan film The Hunt for Red October.{{citation needed|date=November 2019}}
Biography
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.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
His 1980 semi-autobiographical film Those Lips, Those Eyes told the story of a 1950s touring stock theatrical company, set in the fictional Ohio town of Kempton Hills; the film starred Frank Langella and Thomas Hulce and was directed by Michael Pressman. Shaber also authored a novel based on the screenplay (Dell, 1980), though he was personally loath to call it a "novelization", as it was written from the first person perspective of its main character and contained much additional material that was either cut from the finished film or created specifically for the book.{{citation needed|date=February 2014}}
Shaber was married to Alice Shaber, and had two daughters, Remy Shaber (dancer) and Sam Shaber (musician).
He died on November 4, 1999, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of an aneurysm, at age 70.
Shaber was Jewish.[http://observer.com/2015/01/new-yorks-police-troubles-seen-through-the-lens-of-the-warriors/ "New York’s Police Troubles Seen Through the Lens of ‘The Warriors.’"] Mulshine, Molly. Observer www.observer.com . Published January 14, 2015. Accessed July 11, 2018.
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External links
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Category:Writers from Cleveland
Category:20th-century American Jews
Category:American male screenwriters
Category:David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
Category:Screenwriters from Ohio