David Sherwin

{{Short description|British screenwriter}}

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| birth_name = David Sherwin-White

| birth_date = 24 February 1942

| birth_place = Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK

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| occupation = Screenwriter

| language = English

| nationality = English

| citizenship = England

| education = Tonbridge School

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| notable_works = if....
O Lucky Man!
Britannia Hospital

| spouses = Gay Conolly (????-1974)
Monika Hayden (1977-2017)

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| relatives = A. N. Sherwin-White (father)

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David Sherwin-White (24 February 1942 – 8 January 2018){{cite news|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture|title=David Sherwin obituary|work=The Guardian|date=2 February 2018|accessdate=3 February 2018}} was a British screenwriter best known for his collaborations with director Lindsay Anderson and actor Malcolm McDowell on the films if.... (1968) (for which Sherwin was nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay), O Lucky Man! (1973) and Britannia Hospital (1982).

Sherwin attended Tonbridge School, which provided much of the inspiration for the content of if.....

In 1996, Sherwin published a memoir, Going Mad in Hollywood: And Life with Lindsay Anderson, (Andre Deutsch) {{ISBN|978-0-233-98966-2}}. A film of the memoir was planned by the director Michael Winterbottom, with Malcolm McDowell cast as Anderson, but never materialised.{{cite news|last=Gilbey|first=Ryan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/feb/02/david-sherwin?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture|title=David Sherwin obituary|work=The Guardian|date=2 February 2018|accessdate=17 September 2022}}

He was the son of Oxford historian A. N. Sherwin-White.{{cite web |url=https://www.tonbridgeconnect.org/news/deaths-obituaries/77/77-SHERWIN-WHITE-David-Nicholas |title=Sherwin-White, David |date=31 January 2018 |publisher= Tonbridge School |access-date=20 December 2023}}