David Shaber (1929 – November 4, 1999) was an American screenwriter and theatre producer, who wrote the screenplays for '' The Warriors'', '' Nighthawks'', '' Rollover'', '' Last Embrace'' and '' Flight of the Intruder''. He also wrote the final draft, though uncredited, for the

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Biography

Shaber was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and abandoned a pre-med education for the

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. 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

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. His 1980 semi-autobiographical film '' Those Lips, Those Eyes'' told the story of a 1950s touring stock theatrical company, set in the fictional

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town of Kempton Hills; the film starred

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and was directed by

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. 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. 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

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, at age 70. Shaber was

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shaber, David 1929 births 1999 deaths Writers from Cleveland 20th-century American Jews American male screenwriters Yale School of Drama alumni Screenwriters from Ohio 20th-century American male writers 20th-century American screenwriters