David Shaber was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, best known for writing The Warriors, Nighthawks, and Flight of the Intruder. He also wrote the final draft, though uncredited, for the John McTiernan film 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.
Shaber has two daughters, Remy Shaber and Sam Shaber.
He died on November 4, 1999 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of an aneurysm, at age 70.
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David Shaber was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, best known for writing The...
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David Shaber was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, best known for writing The Warriors, Nighthawks, and Flight of the Intruder. He also wrote the final draft, though uncredited, for the John McTiernan film 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.
Shaber has two daughters, Remy Shaber and Sam Shaber.
He died on November 4, 1999 at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan of an aneurysm, at age 70.
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